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Welcome to ScrumLab Open

ScrumLab Open is a free resource that explains the basic framework, roles and key patterns of Scrum. It includes clear definitions, insightful videos from the inventor of Scrum, as well as, published papers on Scrum Practices. ScrumLab open is perfect for the Scrum curious, the Scrum beginner or the advanced practitioner looking to refresh on the fundamentals.

We also offer a more in-depth online course: Scrum Startup for Teams.

You can also improve your Scrum by attending one of our Scrum Master or Scrum Product Owner classes. Advanced practitioners may be interested in reading Jeff Sutherland’s Scrum Papers, taking our Scrum@Scale training, or visiting the official Scrum@Scale site to download the latest Scrum@Scale Guide.

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Release Duration and Enterprise Agility

You ever wonder why your cellphone Apps seem like they have a new version every day or two? Dan Greening doesn't have to wonder, he knows why, they make better products, faster. - jj Short release duration—the time from starting development on a feature set until it...

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Power of Scrum On the Kindle

After many, many requests for an eBook version of The Power of Scrum we’re happy to announce that it is now available on the Kindle. It really is a powerful book that lays out in a narrative form the difficulties and triumphs people and companies experience when...

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The Importance of the Product Owner

Scrum Inc.'s Christine Hegarty wrote this today, just before she went on vacation, of course, so I'm posting it for her - jj   Here at Scrum Inc. we've been thinking a lot about the role of Product Owner recently. It's something that we see a lot of companies struggle...

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The Power of Scrum

Please read before ScrumMaster and Product Owner courses in Los Angeles and Boston in February. Book Description The Power of Scrum tells the inspiring story of Mark Resting, CTO of a software company struggling with a major client and a project with more problems...

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Scrum: Looks Like We Created an Industry!

In the last month there were 10,964 Scrum jobs posted at simplyhired.com. This is probably less than half the real jobs out there for Scrum. In a good month we have 200,000 new jobs in the U.S. and the unemployment rate goes down. IsScrum generating 10% of those new...

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Medication

Dan Mezick I'm pleased to add this content to Jeff's blog regarding pain medication and the Agile Manifesto.Delivering software as a team is a highly intentional act. If we say we want working software, the results are by no means assured. Confronting reality, at the...

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An Alternative to Kanban: One-Piece Continuous Flow

    Jim Coplien I'm pleased to be visiting here as a guest this week at Jeff's invitation. The topic at hand is kanban. Unfortunately, this entry is a bit long, because I want to go beyond the usual level of sound bites afforded to an important topic. A Terminology...

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Give Thanks for Scrum Day 22 Nov 2011

SCHEDULE- Give Thanks for Scrum, 11/22/2011 0930 AM Welcome Remarks- Dan Mezick 1000 Ken Schwaber on: 2011: WHAT A YEAR FOR SCRUM  1045 BREAK 1100 Jeff Sutherland on Why Teams are not Hyperproductive 1145 BREAK for LUNCH 1245 PM Welcome Remarks- Dan Mezick 0100 Dan...

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Takeuchi and Nonaka: The Roots of Scrum

Scrum for software was directly modeled after "The New New Product Development Game" by Hirotaka Takeuchi and Ikujiro Nonaka published in the Harvard Business Review in 1986. During 2011, I had the good fortune to meet and work with Professor Nonaka in Tokyo. Some say...

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Breaking Departmental Silos: Scrum in Finance

By Christine Hegarty, Scrum Inc. “So-and-so does that, not me.” Upon hiring our accountant this June, I gleefully handed off the company QuickBooks file, stacks of financial statements and an overview of the bookkeeping functions and relished in the relief of no...

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Forbes Blog: Steve Jobs on Get Rid of the Crappy Stuff!

Image via Wikipedia Carmin Gallo, Forbes, 5/16/2011 Apple recently passed Google as the most valuable brand in the world.  It’s extraordinary to think that the world’s top brand has a product portfolio that could fit on a small table.  Of course that’s part of the...

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Openview: Scrum Inc. training on location

VENTURE CAPITAL Inside OpenView's corporate relocation program Posted by Scott Kirsner August 2, 2011 11:01 AM Boston.com By Scott Kirsner, Globe Columnist Scott Maxwell grew up in Silicon Valley, but these days he is practically operating a shadow economic...

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Can your new hire work on a Scrum team?

  New for Aspiring Doctors, the People Skills Test   By GARDINER HARRIS Published: July 10, 2011, New York Times ROANOKE, Va. — Doctors save lives, but they can sometimes be insufferable know-it-alls who bully nurses and do not listen to patients. Medical...

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Grandfathers of Scrum on Leadership

The Big Idea: The Wise Leaderby Ikujiro Nonaka and Hirotaka Takeuchi in Harvard Business Review, May 2011In an era when discontinuity is the only constant, the ability to lead wisely has nearly vanished. All the knowledge in the world did not prevent the collapse of...

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