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Happiness Metric Process Improvement Priorities - ScrumInc 15 Dec 2010 Scrum, Inc. was a small company hosted by OpenView Venture Partners in Boston from 2006-2010. As a two person Scrum using Pivotal Tracker as a Scrum tool, I was a remote Product Owner traveling 2-3...

We know multitasking causes project delays but it is even worse than we thought. Psychology Today reports on new research that shows it builds up a stress response that damages cells in your brain. The Difficulties of Multi-tasking Doing too much makes you slower and...

Dan Mezick organized the Second Annual Give Thanks for Scrum Day on 24 November at Microsoft in Waltham, MA. Ken Schwaber and I gave presentations and did a panel. A good time was had by all! Aggressive Scrum - What Happens When You Actually Remove Your Impediments?...

Performance reviews are a predictable part of office life. Whether the employees write their own, or sit before a panel of bosses, it can be a grueling process. Often, managers only conduct them because they're told to, and workers embellish and obscure their...

On 17 November 2010, the keynote presentation at ScrumDay in Berlin was on how to systematically create hyperproductive teams. Slides are available at the link below. Available also is the Systematic Ready Ready Checklist for Product Backlog discussed during the...

     Tom Gilb, Jeff Sutherland, Kai Gilb Requirement defects cause rework. Every defect is a bug that causes extra work. So it is important to check your requirements for defects. Tom Gilb has an agile one hour workshop that will take a random page of your...

Joe Kinsella, one of the developers on the first Scrum team, does a retrospective on his experience. A few years back I received a call from Stephen Denning, an Australian author best known for his books on organizational storytelling. Stephen wanted to talk with me...

How we got rid of time reports A story about waste elimination Have you ever dealt with time reports? Filled them in? Approved them? Shuffled them around?Did it feel like well spent time? Can you imagine a world without time reports?

I worked with Henrik Kniberg in Stockholm this week and heard the latest about the Agile Manifesto translation project. A simple idea is having some far reaching effects. See agilemanifesto.org. Agile Manifesto Translation - program report Henrik Kniberg - Agile...

Working with OpenView Venture Partners, I've seen Scrum implemented everywhere in 100% of the venture group and some of our portfolio companies. Now I'm seeing other companies doing the same thing. In the past month I have seen people aggressively implementing Scrum...

OpenView Labs supports expansion stage startup companies with a strong offering of expert support to portfolio companies. They have decided to open up their experience and expertise to all who are interested after working with agile practices and implementing Scrum in...

In the early days of Scrum we were steeped in complex adaptive systems theory and autonomous intelligent systems. This area of research is emerging in a new form called Ambient Intelligence (AmI) due to the proliferation of intelligent devices on the internet. This...

Law of Success 2.0 To Make The World A Better Place Where All Human Beings Can Achieve Success For first part of the interview click here ... Conclusion: HK: Time moves on, so I want to have few questions about success. What is the definition of your success as an...

The Simula Lab in Norway has supported research on estimation error. Stein Grimstad's Ph.D. thesis on this topic has spawned several papers and references are provided below from the IEEE Digital Library in response to requests for sources. In particular, irrelevant...