Yesterday’s Weather
Yesterday’s Weather is a Scrum pattern that helps Teams quickly calculate how many Points they will likely complete in the upcoming Sprint. The name comes from the fact that the best predictor of...
View ArticleExtreme Manufacturing Yellow Belt Class
Accelerate all of your company with Joe Justice, the creator of eXtreme Manufacturing. Together we will practice with attendees how to set up new teams, collaborate with remote teams, stay in sync...
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Are you concerned that cookie-cutter scaling methods won’t work in your company’s situation? Context is everything, and even methodologies that work very well in one context may fail spectacularly in...
View ArticleScrum for Full-Scale Manufacturing
Scrum for full-scaling manufacturing is a groundbreaking agile discipline that combines Scrum with modular architecture and Lean/XP practices. This framework enables those who work with hardware to...
View ArticleCultivating Continuous Transformation
Recently, I listened to a presentation by a CTO of a large software company. During the presentation, the CTO talked about a common misconception that the farmer grows food. The fact is, he pointed...
View ArticleIs Your Company Agile?
On my recent book tour in London, I was asked to appear on Sky News. They asked me to talk about why the United Kingdom’s productivity is less than other G7 countries. The hot topic of the day was...
View ArticlePattern Language: Finish Early, Accelerate Fast
Finish Early, Accelerate Faster (FEAF) is a Scrum pattern language composed of a number of Scrum Patterns used together. FEAF is an incredibly powerful pattern language because it will help new Teams...
View ArticleInterrupt Pattern
Interrupts happen. In computing, an operating system has to be able to handle interrupts or the machine will crash. It’s the same with Sprints. The key to handling interruptions is to expect them. One...
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View ArticleScrum at Scale: Changing the Conversation
Part of the key to Scrum’s success is that it allows for context-driven solutions and processes – which is why no two Scrum implementations are identical. So why does the conversation about scaling...
View ArticleGetting to Done
My book Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time was published in October. Over the last six weeks, I’ve been touring the U.S. and Europe telling the story of all the influences that...
View ArticleVersion One Webinar: Getting to Done
In conjunction with the release of Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time, Jeff paid a visit to Version One in Atlanta. During multiple sessions, the same question kept surfacing: What...
View ArticleAgile Testing
Testing is critical to release products. Yet the stories of catastrophic project failures due to inadequate testing are legendary. Obamacare comes to mind as just one very public example....
View ArticleScrum Inc. Heads Back to the Valley
This past fall I visited some of the biggest tech players in Silicon Valley (PayPal, Twitter, Salesforce, Wallmart.com etc.) There were two take-a-ways from those visits. First, people, mostly...
View ArticleMulti-Tasking
Multitasking is a form of wasted motion. Taiichi Ohno, in his keystone book: The Toyota Production System outlined a total of 13 forms of waste. Multitasking is a classic form of Muda, or wasted...
View ArticleScrum @ Scale Online Course Postponed
Due to the forecasted blizzard in New England, we are closing the Scrum Inc. office. Tomorrow's free webinar on Scrum @ Scale is delayed until Wed. 2/4 at 11am EST. We want you to choose the backlog...
View ArticleScrum at Scale Part III
Jeff Sutherland and the Scrum Inc. team present Scrum at Scale Part III - an object-oriented model for scaling Scrum across the business. The modular approach allows for the overall system to work...
View ArticleScrum at Scale part III
Scrum Inc.’s CEO Jeff Sutherland presents an in-depth analysis of the most requested Scrum at Scale modules. The Scrum at Scale framework allows for context-specific solutions to scaling, unlike other...
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