Scrum Blog
Backlog Refinement Takes You from Vision to Value
Backlog Refinement Takes You from Vision to Value by Ellen Gottesdiener and Jeff Sutherland Deliver Value Sooner Backlog refinement prepares your backlog for development. Investing in doing this well helps you deliver value sooner, can double your productivity, and...
read more
Scrum Guide Refresh with Jeff Sutherland and Ken Schwaber Now Available
Scrum Guide Refresh with Jeff Sutherland and Ken Schwaber Now Available The Scrum Guide Refresh webinar featuring Jeff Sutherland and Ken Schwaber is now available in ScrumLab Open. This is a rare opportunity to hear directly from the creators of the Scrum Framework...
read more
Scrummer Reading List
Scrummer Reading List 2016 We asked some of our team members to share their top picks for summer* reading. The list is full of inspirational gems. If you read one, let us know what you think. We'd also like to hear from you! In the comments section, please tell us...
read more
Scrum@Scale Certification Now Available
Scrum@Scale Certification Now Available Scrum Inc. is excited to announce that our Scrum@Scale course is now a Scrum Alliance Continuing Education course. Students who complete the course will also receive a Certified Scrum@Scale Practitioner certificate from Scrum...
read more
Agile Leadership: Trust vs. Control
Trust vs. Control in Agile Leadership I Listened to Spotify enterprise coach and Agile thought leader Henrik Knieberg's keynote and loved his analogy on Trust vs. Control. He uses the concept of traffic regulation, specifically a traffic circle vs. an...
read more
What I Learned at Toyota
What I Learned at Toyota Test driving the new Toyota hydrogen powered Mirai with Pierre Masai I first met Pierre Masai, CIO of Toyota Motors Europe (TME), a few years ago at the annual Lean IT conference in Paris. Pierre is an agile advocate committed to driving Scrum...
read more
Agile Innovation: How to Scrum Ideation
Agile Innovation: How to Scrum Ideation I’m very interested in the growth and evolution of the Agile process, and its eventual mainstreaming into types of work beyond writing software. In particular, I’m very interested in the intersection of Agile and...
read more
How Complexity Changes Leadership
How Complexity Changes Leadership I just finished reading Retired General Stanley McChrystal’s outstanding book: Team of Teams. While the book is not specifically focused on Agile practices, it turns out that when US Troops are dying at the hands of a viral...
read more
Who Fires a Scrum Team!?
In an Agile 1.0 organization, where a traditional management structure exists with Scrum teams in delivery roles, management fires the Scrum team if they don’t perform. In an Agile 2.0 organization, where the entire company is re-organized into Scrum teams that...
read more
Toyota’s A3 and Root Cause Analysis
The most basic definition of an A3 would be a Plan Do Check Act (P-D-C-A) storyboard or report, reflecting Toyota’s way of capturing the process on one sheet of paper.
read more
