I have been in a few organizations where leaders say, “we aren’t getting any impediments.” Why would teams raise issues but the leaders don’t think it is really a problem? We have come up with four questions to frame these impediments that allow for the teams to choose their own destiny, become more empowered while removing leadership as a bottleneck.

Much of the early history of Scrum was written on Jeff Sutherland's Scrum Blog almost 20 years ago. This may still be accessible at jeffsutherland.org/scrum but needs to be brought forward to scruminc.com so history is not lost. Today, many practitioners have no...

Scrum@Scale is a sponsor of Agile 2018. I am signing books and taking photos at the Scrum@Scale booth, 412. At 2pm on Monday, I presented "Linear Scalability of Teams: The Holy Grail of Agile Project Management", in which I described how the Scrum@Scale...

The 3-5-3 structure of Scrum provides us with much more than a basic framework. Understanding the 3 roles, 5 events, and 3 outputs of Scrum also gives you a method to check if Scrum teams are implementing the same practices observed in high performing teams.

2018 Scrummer Reading List Our annual tribute to beach reads is back. We asked our team what books they are reading this summer and they responded with some great suggestions; a combination of fiction, non-fiction, business books and academic papers that make for...

An aerospace parts client recently emailed me asking how best to poll happiness across a group of hundreds of employees. Since this is a question we get frequently, I thought it would be a great idea to share the answer with all of you. Here is what I’ve learned about measuring team happiness […]

eXtreme Manufacturing provides the technical practices to test and select the tools, materials, orientations and flows that can give us mass-production quality with no additional cost. Continuous deployment via eXtreme Manufacturing allows us to get inside our competitors’ loop without over-extending our resources.

We live in an age of disruption. A time when entire industries can be upended by a single, thinly staffed start-up. With customers demanding near-constant innovation and the concept of brand loyalty on the wane, more and more executives are wondering […]

I was asked to work with a global architecture firm developing parts of Apple’s new campus. This campus is built for scaling Scrum. Open, flexible team rooms with minimal furniture ring the building, and every five meet together in an open room for Scrum of Scrums and Meta Scrum.

Why Scrum is the Best Way to Create AI by Tom Bullock, Joe Justice, Alex Sutherland| 04-20-2018 | Blog There is no broad agreement on what constitutes artificial intelligence (AI). Still, this much is clear, we have already entered the age of AI and...