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We need good reviewer for a series of Agile papers submitted to the HICSS Conference. Reviews are due by 14 August. If you are interested, send email to jeff@scruminc.com and let me know which papers you would like to review. You must set up an account for yourself at...

Cartoon from Amund Tveit's Blog Brain research on rats suggests that voluntary pressure in the form of audacious goals taken on by high performance teams makes them produce more neuron stem cells, rewire the brain, and become smarter. Involuntary pressure, often seen...

Announcing Team Foundation Server Scrum v1.0 Beta aaronbjork 7 Jun 2010 9:13 AM Today , we’re announcing and releasing a brand new process template… Team Foundation Server Scrum v1.0 Beta.  This is a new process template built from the ground up specifically for Scrum...

A Practical Roadmap to Great Scrum: A Systematic Guide to Hyperproductivity Jeff Sutherland, Ph.D - Chairman, Scrum Training Institute The best data in the world on Scrum comes from a CMMI Maturity Level 5 company that is migrating all data collection to function...

Neil Harrison, Mike Beedle, Jim Coplien, Jeff Sutherland ... which is what we say in Danish to appreciate each other for our last time of fellowship. I think we'd all agree on many adjectives to describe the event: productive, fun, energizing, and many more. We did...

Your team can apply agile practices more easily by using the process template for MSF for Agile Software Development v5.0 with Visual Studio Application Lifecycle Management (ALM). The template and this guidance will help you practice Scrum and apply agile engineering...

It's time for you to get your most scintillating Agile theories together, write a kick-ass paper that could get published in the IEEE library and spend a week in beautiful Hawaii next January. Sound good? Then get writing! HICSS-44 CALL FOR PAPERS - submissions due 15...

  The Metaphysical Significance, Staggering Ubiquity, and Sheer Joy of High Fives The low five, the high 10, the low 10, the forearm bash, the fist bump, the flying chest bump, the shug, the leaping shoulder carom, the ass slap, the pound, the man hug, the dap, the...

Deep Lean with Mary Poppendieck & Jeff Sutherland & Henrik Kniberg, May 12th Spend a day with renown experts on Lean and Agile software development. This exclusive workshop happens only once per year worldwide and is limited to 20-25 participants. This...

Scrum Metrics for Hyperproductive Teams: How They Fly Like Fighter Aircraft Jeff Sutherland and Scott Downey Agile 2010 Experience Report Scrum teams use lightweight metrics like story points, the burndown chart, and team velocity. The inventor of Scrum was a fighter...

Dr. Jeff Sutherland covers the history of Scrum from its inception thru his participation with Ken Schwaber in rolling out Scrum to industry, to its impact on Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Oracle, Siemans, Philips, GE, and thousands of other companies. He describes the...

Abstract Teams must be authorized to create team culture. They must be 100% free to invent, create, manifest and work inside their own special, unique, meaningful, largely self-determined team culture. Ground rules set the stage for culture. All else follows. If the...

The first Scrum team was created directly from a paper which is required reading for any Scrum practitioner. It explains how to set up self-organizing teams and clearly outlines management's role in the process. Takeuchi and Nonaka. The New New Product Development...