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The first Scrum Team was created in 1993 at the Easel Coporation in Massachusetts. Perhaps Jeff's most careful hire, and most thorough training, was the first Product Owner. He drew on his experience as a fighter pilot in Vietnam when thinking about the role of...

Get your papers ready for the January 2013 HICSS conference (in Maui)!  The Agile and Lean Organizations track will be one half day during the 4-day conference. HICSS is a conference with a wide-variety of researchers (not just software) interested in...

The official publication of "Software in 30 Days" is May 1. The book is a collaboration between the two creators of Scrum, Jeff Sutherland and Ken Schwaber. The goal of Scrum is to actually have working software at then end of each Sprint, which should be 30 days or...

When we first heard about teachers using Scrum in a classroom we had to know more and got in touch with those teachers through Ilja Heitlager at Schuberg Philis in the Netherlands. Here's what they sent in. It's translated into English from the original Dutch....

The Agile Manifesto is one of those documents that at one level is simple, but actually holds a lot of meaning: Individuals and interactions over processes and tools Working software over comprehensive documentation Customer collaboration over contract negotiation...

California Scraps Massive Courts Software Project By Chris Kanaracus, IDG News California's Judicial Council has put the brakes on a long-running, massive software project that was supposed to modernize the state's trial courts case-management systems, saying the...

Alex Brown, Scrum Inc.'s Product Owner and COO, had some thoughts on the role of management in Scrum, as he's been working on a workshop for executives for the past month or so. - jj It’s odd. A number of people have told us recently they don’t think management has a...

Steve Denning, one of the smartest guys today thinking about management and how companies are run, just pointed out a new Harvard Business Review article which should be required reading: If some progressive journal were to write about overpaid CEOs, it wouldn’t be...

Here at Scrum Inc. we've been thinking a lot about two things: impediments and the Sprint Retrospective. These are really where the rubber meets the road in terms of improving productivity. We'll have a later post on impediments, but I wanted to share this excerpt...

Recently I was coaching teams at OpenView Venture Partners and Scott Maxwell, the founding partner, jumped up and said, “Jeff, I want to show you the Maxwell Curve! Here is what we have learned by running Scrum internally with teams of venture capitalists making...

Several people have asked me for the Scrum Checklist we have used for years, created by Henrik Kniberg at Crisp in Stockholm. The earlier version was a mindmap. The current version is a Scrum Checklist. I've used it for assessment in OpenView Venture Partners...