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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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Managing Offshore Software Projects

Verma, Vikas (2008) Managing Offshore Software Projects. Icfai University Press. A new book republished the Scrum case study on the highest performing large project ever recorded. Sutherland, J, Viktorov, A., and Blount, J. (2006) Adaptive Engineering of Large...

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What to do when Sales guys are Waterholics …

Here is today's best question in my long list of emails. The Sales guys don't want Scrum in a company because they think they can't commit to the customer to close deals. "We need to sign the contract first. The customer does not sign the contract, if finish date,...

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PatientKeeper HIMSS08: Scrum @work

PatientKeeper runs a Type C Scrum and quadrupled revenue in 2007. HIMSS is the biggest IT show in healthcare and PatientKeeper was one of the hottest companies there. "I'm such a PK groupee now! I'll be sure to get that contract signed in the next 2 weeks."...

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Planning Poker Cards: Faster, Better, Cooler!

I'm leaving Stockholm today after working with Crisp on Scrum training this week. In my bag are the new, upgraded, Crisp planning poker cards. Developers have been asking for more colors. We now have eight colors to support a Scrum team so each person has a different...

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HICSS 2008: Schedule of Agile Papers

Wild man Evan Campbell demonstrates Type C Scrum at HICSS 2007 Agile Software Development: Lean, Distributed, and Scalable Co-Chairs: Jeff Sutherland and Hubert Smits HICSS 41, January 7-10, 2008 - Hilton Waikoloa Village Resort Waikoloa, Big Island, Hawaii ST 1...

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Why Time Sheets are Lame!

Programmer time vs. Quality Software Score. Totally uncorrelated! Actually time sheets are worse than lame: * they demotivate developers * 10-15% loss of productivity is the minimum * developers have to fake the time to fill them out properly * erroneous data is used...

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Scrum and CMMI Level 5: A Magic Potion for Code Warriors

      (this blog has moved to scrum.jeffsutherland.com) An earlier blog item commented on the dramatic advantages of using Scrum with CMMI, particularly with a CMMI Level 5 company. See Scrum supports CMMI Level 5. At the Agile 2007 Conference in Washington, D.C., an...

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Agile Video Contest – post yours before Agile 2007

There is an Agile You Tube video contest going on sponsored by VersionOne, Google, and InfoQ. The best video will be selected (and rewarded) at the Agile 2007 conference in Washington, D.C. next month. Check out current video submissions and submit your entry now!

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Origins of Scrum

For a more complete discussion of the orgins of Scrum see the Scrum Papers. Scrum derives directly from the Takeuchi and Nonaka paper in the Harvard Business Review, "The New New Product Development Game." The best example in this paper is Honda and their style of...

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XP Game: Know your team’s velocity!

I'm using the XP Game in ScrumMaster classes and many people want to know the orgins of the game and how to obtain materials. The full game can be downloaded from the site below. We use a short version of the XP Game to show how Scrum teams can improve estimation,...

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Scrum World Tour T-Shirt

Thanks to Örjan Hillbom CPG we now have a Scrum World Tour T-Shirt produced by Trifork in Denmark. Örjan is a rock group/motorcycle gang video expert who attended a ScrumMaster training by me and Jens Ostergaard in Copenhagen recently. He said Scrum really "rocks" and...

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Oursourcing Strategy: Only Work with Scrum Teams

    I had an exciting week in the Amsterdam area at the beginning of April working with Xebia, a consulting company that has set up a subsidiary in India that uses a SirsiDynix style Scrum where geographic transparency rules and teams are made up of people from...

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Deep Agile: A Dialogue Between Scrum and XP

Photo from cover of Crosstalk, Apr 2007Spend two days with two signatories of the Agile Manifesto - Jeff Sutherland, Co-Creator of Scrum, and Ron Jeffries, XP author and consultant.You wouldn't want to miss a two day deep dive into Agile: Scrum, Extreme...

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Scrum Burndown using Trac

In a recent draft of "The Scrum Papers" I document the use of the GNATS bug tracking system at my company PatientKeeper for managing a complex Scrum implementation. In my Scrum Tuning course I use a complexity number which equals (number of teams) x (number of...

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