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By Joel Riddle Scrum is exploding across the industry according to the latest annual State of Agile Survey. Yesterday I talked to Robert Holler, CEO of VersionOne, a maker of agile tools and the sponsor of the survey. He believes the most dramatic number is a 14%...

There was a really interesting Op-Ed in Sunday’s New York Times by Tony Schwartz at The Energy Project. As any good Scrum Master knows, finding a sustainable pace for the team is incredibly important to increasing velocity. At Scrum Inc., we talk about avoiding Muri...

Reconciling Innovation With Control: The Air Force's $1.3 Billion Lesson In Agile Steve Denning, Forbes 11 Dec 2012 What are we to make of the news that the Air Force recently canceled a six-year-old software modernization effort that had consumed $1.3 billion and...

As we prepare for the joint Joe Justice/WikiSpeed Scrum training in Redmond on 4-5 February, I'm reviewing the connection between Scrum and Lean. We continue to meet with key staff of the Lean Enterprise Institute to discuss opportunities to work together. John Shook,...

A guest post from Jens Meydam (@jmeydam) on the death of Richard Hackman.  A few days ago, on January 8, a man passed away who may be considered one of the patron saints of Scrum, even though he had never heard of Scrum and few in the Scrum community know his name....

Recently during a leadership workshop an engineering manager complained that his Scrum teams deliver the product and that it was not what the customer wanted. He thought this was a problem with Scrum. I pointed out that the Product Owner determines what is DONE at the...

As Scrum enters the mainstream, Xebia France has become one of the leading Scrum coaching companies for French developers. What they have noticed is that as Scrum expands, the basic ideas become watered down. For example, their Scrum Master Academy Rule #2, is the the...

By Arline Sutherland I remember sitting on the basement steps in the summer of 1976 watching Nadia Comaneci win the worlds first perfect 10 in the history of modern gymnastics.  Her command of the whirling routine on the uneven bars was a marvel. The announcers told...

In the years since the first paper on metrics for hyperproductive teams, I have been thinking about new ways to measure high-performing teams.  Tune in to the webinar "Hyperproductive Metrics" for the latest metrics to guide teams on the path to hyperproductivity....

In the past six months, Scrum jobs on simplyhired.com have increased from 20,000 to 420,000. Despite this tsunami of Scrum job offerings, many of the traditional project leaders and senior IT staff I talk with are still resisting the inevitable and they fail to see...

THANKS FOR EVERYONE WHO MADE [GIVE THANKS FOR SCRUM] A GREAT TIME !! TUESDAY NOVEMBER 20: The 4th Annual GIVE THANKS FOR SCRUM Event, Honoring Jeff Sutherland and Ken Schwaber. Learn more about GIVE THANK FOR SCRUM 2012.  (Jeff Sutherland and Ken Schwaber, Give Thanks...

Why and how you made Scrum – Interview with Jeff Sutherland by Kenji Hiranabe November 21, 2012 at 12:57 am kenjihiranabe Leave a comment Boston where Scrum Inc. based-in Kenji: I visited scruminc. in Boston last September. Unfortunately, Jeff was out in Zurich at the...

The Gartner Application Development Advisory for 2012 strongly mandates abandoning waterfall, going Agile, and implementing a technical debt remediation program. This needs to be driven by the Product Owner and supported by management. But what is technical debt, and...

By Christine Hegarty In working for the creator of Scrum, I have gained an appreciation for the influence of Lean thinking on the development of Scrum principles.  The concepts of continuous improvement, eliminating waste, limiting work in progress, etc. are intrinsic...