http://www.scrum.org RSS feeds for Scrum.org | The home of Scrum 60 http://www.scrum.org/About/All-Articles/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/698/The-Nature-of-Scrum-Survey-awaits-you#Comments 0 http://www.scrum.org/DesktopModules/DnnForge%20-%20NewsArticles/RssComments.aspx?TabID=102&ModuleID=441&ArticleID=698 http://www.scrum.org/DesktopModules/DnnForge%20-%20NewsArticles/Tracking/Trackback.aspx?ArticleID=698&PortalID=0&TabID=102 http://www.scrum.org/About/All-Articles/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/698/The-Nature-of-Scrum-Survey-awaits-you What is the nature of Scrum? What are it's cultural characteristics? What are companies going to face if they introduce Scrum while trying to maintain their existing corporate cultures? I am going to find out - with your help! At http://scrumorakel.de/surveys/ you can find two surveys, each of which will take you around 30 minutes to complete. While this is quite a lot of time I am asking of you, you will help thousands of companies worldwide in their Scrum adoption. This might include your own as well at some point in time. If you have to make a choice, only do the first survey. They are ordered in terms of business value Dominik Maximini Fri, 17 May 2013 22:30:00 GMT f1397696-738c-4295-afcd-943feb885714:698 http://www.scrum.org/About/All-Articles/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/696/Metrics-to-Build-Great-Agile-Teams-Measure-Influence-Not-Control#Comments 0 http://www.scrum.org/DesktopModules/DnnForge%20-%20NewsArticles/RssComments.aspx?TabID=102&ModuleID=441&ArticleID=696 http://www.scrum.org/DesktopModules/DnnForge%20-%20NewsArticles/Tracking/Trackback.aspx?ArticleID=696&PortalID=0&TabID=102 http://www.scrum.org/About/All-Articles/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/696/Metrics-to-Build-Great-Agile-Teams-Measure-Influence-Not-Control Couple of weeks back, I noticed an incident that triggered this post. Senior Management in a company applauded people for showing individual heroics on the project. Some of them were: Staying late in office to address a client request? Responding to project emails at late night. Rewarding testers on number of bugs found and more. And then... Scrum Admin Wed, 15 May 2013 18:16:00 GMT f1397696-738c-4295-afcd-943feb885714:696 http://www.scrum.org/About/All-Articles/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/697/Scrum-Tactics-for-a-Purpose#Comments 0 http://www.scrum.org/DesktopModules/DnnForge%20-%20NewsArticles/RssComments.aspx?TabID=102&ModuleID=441&ArticleID=697 http://www.scrum.org/DesktopModules/DnnForge%20-%20NewsArticles/Tracking/Trackback.aspx?ArticleID=697&PortalID=0&TabID=102 http://www.scrum.org/About/All-Articles/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/697/Scrum-Tactics-for-a-Purpose The purpose of Scrum is to help people inspect & adapt, to provide transparency to the work being undertaken, to know reality to base decisions on, to adjust, to adapt, to change, to gain flexibility. The rules, principles and roles of the framework, as described in the Scrum Guide, serve this purpose. These are the rules of the game of Scrum, the base setup to have in place... [Read more...] Gunther Verheyen Tue, 14 May 2013 20:09:00 GMT f1397696-738c-4295-afcd-943feb885714:697 http://www.scrum.org/About/All-Articles/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/695/Iterative-Estimation#Comments 0 http://www.scrum.org/DesktopModules/DnnForge%20-%20NewsArticles/RssComments.aspx?TabID=102&ModuleID=441&ArticleID=695 http://www.scrum.org/DesktopModules/DnnForge%20-%20NewsArticles/Tracking/Trackback.aspx?ArticleID=695&PortalID=0&TabID=102 http://www.scrum.org/About/All-Articles/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/695/Iterative-Estimation Estimation has been the bane of the developer’s life ever since we moved beyond the hacker era of software creation, and into “corporate software”. When people hacked, they just wrote code, completed stuff and released it. People took pride in their work, challenged one another, made things up as they went along and produced wonders, the like of which no one had ever seen before... Scrum Admin Mon, 13 May 2013 16:14:00 GMT f1397696-738c-4295-afcd-943feb885714:695 http://www.scrum.org/About/All-Articles/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/694/You-are-doing-it-wrong-if-you-are-not-using-test-first#Comments 0 http://www.scrum.org/DesktopModules/DnnForge%20-%20NewsArticles/RssComments.aspx?TabID=102&ModuleID=441&ArticleID=694 http://www.scrum.org/DesktopModules/DnnForge%20-%20NewsArticles/Tracking/Trackback.aspx?ArticleID=694&PortalID=0&TabID=102 http://www.scrum.org/About/All-Articles/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/694/You-are-doing-it-wrong-if-you-are-not-using-test-first Martin Hinshelwood MrHinsh Mon, 06 May 2013 17:28:00 GMT f1397696-738c-4295-afcd-943feb885714:694 http://www.scrum.org/About/All-Articles/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/692/Who-stole-all-my-Scrum-benefits#Comments 0 http://www.scrum.org/DesktopModules/DnnForge%20-%20NewsArticles/RssComments.aspx?TabID=102&ModuleID=441&ArticleID=692 http://www.scrum.org/DesktopModules/DnnForge%20-%20NewsArticles/Tracking/Trackback.aspx?ArticleID=692&PortalID=0&TabID=102 http://www.scrum.org/About/All-Articles/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/692/Who-stole-all-my-Scrum-benefits Edwin Dando Edwin Dando Fri, 03 May 2013 14:31:00 GMT f1397696-738c-4295-afcd-943feb885714:692 http://www.scrum.org/About/All-Articles/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/691/The-Path-to-Agility#Comments 0 http://www.scrum.org/DesktopModules/DnnForge%20-%20NewsArticles/RssComments.aspx?TabID=102&ModuleID=441&ArticleID=691 http://www.scrum.org/DesktopModules/DnnForge%20-%20NewsArticles/Tracking/Trackback.aspx?ArticleID=691&PortalID=0&TabID=102 http://www.scrum.org/About/All-Articles/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/691/The-Path-to-Agility The move is on. More and more organizations are abandoning waterfall and opting for agility. The benefits are overwhelming, documented by Standish Group, the GAO, and DOD. Lately, two approaches to becoming agile have emerged. Watch this video to learn more about Path to AgilityTM. Ken Schwaber Mon, 29 Apr 2013 21:30:00 GMT f1397696-738c-4295-afcd-943feb885714:691 http://www.scrum.org/About/All-Articles/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/690/Estimating-for-Software-Development-Delivery-and-Deadlines#Comments 0 http://www.scrum.org/DesktopModules/DnnForge%20-%20NewsArticles/RssComments.aspx?TabID=102&ModuleID=441&ArticleID=690 http://www.scrum.org/DesktopModules/DnnForge%20-%20NewsArticles/Tracking/Trackback.aspx?ArticleID=690&PortalID=0&TabID=102 http://www.scrum.org/About/All-Articles/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/690/Estimating-for-Software-Development-Delivery-and-Deadlines David Starr ElegantCoder Mon, 29 Apr 2013 19:01:00 GMT f1397696-738c-4295-afcd-943feb885714:690 http://www.scrum.org/About/All-Articles/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/682/Scrumorg-to-debut-Path-to-Agility-at-COHAA-Conference#Comments 0 http://www.scrum.org/DesktopModules/DnnForge%20-%20NewsArticles/RssComments.aspx?TabID=102&ModuleID=441&ArticleID=682 http://www.scrum.org/DesktopModules/DnnForge%20-%20NewsArticles/Tracking/Trackback.aspx?ArticleID=682&PortalID=0&TabID=102 http://www.scrum.org/About/All-Articles/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/682/Scrumorg-to-debut-Path-to-Agility-at-COHAA-Conference For the third consecutive year, Scrum.org is a Gold sponsor at this year's COHAA Path to Agility conference in Columbus, OH, May 22 - 23, 2013. Events not to be missed at the COHAA event: Scrum.org will demo Path to Agility™,  Co-founder of Scrum and Scrum.org Ken Schwaber will deliver his keynote talk, "Are you Agile?", and  Attendees who visit the Scrum.org booth can win a Microsoft Surface. Join us and get the most out of your COHAA experience this year.   Daniel Racowsky Fri, 26 Apr 2013 04:01:00 GMT f1397696-738c-4295-afcd-943feb885714:682 http://www.scrum.org/About/All-Articles/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/687/CHAOS-Tuesday-Learning-from-Retrospectives-Audio#Comments 0 http://www.scrum.org/DesktopModules/DnnForge%20-%20NewsArticles/RssComments.aspx?TabID=102&ModuleID=441&ArticleID=687 http://www.scrum.org/DesktopModules/DnnForge%20-%20NewsArticles/Tracking/Trackback.aspx?ArticleID=687&PortalID=0&TabID=102 http://www.scrum.org/About/All-Articles/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/687/CHAOS-Tuesday-Learning-from-Retrospectives-Audio The Standish Group's CHAOS Tuesday production has special guest Ken Schwaber of Scrum.Org on their show to discuss what can be learned from doing retrospectives. Topics covered: the retrospective process; how it differs from a project postmodern; how to get the most out of a retrospective; ways to improve communication; how to deal with common retrospective issues. Ken Schwaber Wed, 24 Apr 2013 14:28:00 GMT f1397696-738c-4295-afcd-943feb885714:687 http://www.scrum.org/About/All-Articles/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/686/Charles-Darwin-and-Continuous-Delivery#Comments 0 http://www.scrum.org/DesktopModules/DnnForge%20-%20NewsArticles/RssComments.aspx?TabID=102&ModuleID=441&ArticleID=686 http://www.scrum.org/DesktopModules/DnnForge%20-%20NewsArticles/Tracking/Trackback.aspx?ArticleID=686&PortalID=0&TabID=102 http://www.scrum.org/About/All-Articles/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/686/Charles-Darwin-and-Continuous-Delivery Jose Luis Soria Teruel Jose Luis Soria Tue, 23 Apr 2013 15:05:00 GMT f1397696-738c-4295-afcd-943feb885714:686 http://www.scrum.org/About/All-Articles/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/689/Scrum-Success-Ends-with-Middle-Management#Comments 0 http://www.scrum.org/DesktopModules/DnnForge%20-%20NewsArticles/RssComments.aspx?TabID=102&ModuleID=441&ArticleID=689 http://www.scrum.org/DesktopModules/DnnForge%20-%20NewsArticles/Tracking/Trackback.aspx?ArticleID=689&PortalID=0&TabID=102 http://www.scrum.org/About/All-Articles/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/689/Scrum-Success-Ends-with-Middle-Management Learn more about Path to Agility. Ken Schwaber Mon, 22 Apr 2013 17:24:00 GMT f1397696-738c-4295-afcd-943feb885714:689 http://www.scrum.org/About/All-Articles/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/685/The-Software-Revolution-Behind-LinkedIns-Gushing-Profits#Comments 0 http://www.scrum.org/DesktopModules/DnnForge%20-%20NewsArticles/RssComments.aspx?TabID=102&ModuleID=441&ArticleID=685 http://www.scrum.org/DesktopModules/DnnForge%20-%20NewsArticles/Tracking/Trackback.aspx?ArticleID=685&PortalID=0&TabID=102 http://www.scrum.org/About/All-Articles/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/685/The-Software-Revolution-Behind-LinkedIns-Gushing-Profits Ryan Tate Scrum Admin Wed, 17 Apr 2013 15:28:00 GMT f1397696-738c-4295-afcd-943feb885714:685 http://www.scrum.org/About/All-Articles/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/683/Agile-ALM-and-Agile-20-Putting-the-Cart-Before-the-Horse#Comments 0 http://www.scrum.org/DesktopModules/DnnForge%20-%20NewsArticles/RssComments.aspx?TabID=102&ModuleID=441&ArticleID=683 http://www.scrum.org/DesktopModules/DnnForge%20-%20NewsArticles/Tracking/Trackback.aspx?ArticleID=683&PortalID=0&TabID=102 http://www.scrum.org/About/All-Articles/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/683/Agile-ALM-and-Agile-20-Putting-the-Cart-Before-the-Horse Ken Schwaber Ken Schwaber Fri, 12 Apr 2013 19:38:00 GMT f1397696-738c-4295-afcd-943feb885714:683 http://www.scrum.org/About/All-Articles/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/684/Taylorism-and-Resources#Comments 0 http://www.scrum.org/DesktopModules/DnnForge%20-%20NewsArticles/RssComments.aspx?TabID=102&ModuleID=441&ArticleID=684 http://www.scrum.org/DesktopModules/DnnForge%20-%20NewsArticles/Tracking/Trackback.aspx?ArticleID=684&PortalID=0&TabID=102 http://www.scrum.org/About/All-Articles/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/684/Taylorism-and-Resources Frederick Winslow Taylor wrote his Book "Scientific Management" back in 1911. His book is available for free online - consider reading it. Taylor wanted to end the "waste of manpower" and stated that "In the past the man has been first; in the future the system must be first." (p. 7) Taylor quickly added: "This in no sense, however, implies that great men are not needed. On the contrary, the first object... Dominik Maximini Wed, 10 Apr 2013 20:20:00 GMT f1397696-738c-4295-afcd-943feb885714:684 http://www.scrum.org/About/All-Articles/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/677/Four-simple-principles-for-highly-effective-teams#Comments 0 http://www.scrum.org/DesktopModules/DnnForge%20-%20NewsArticles/RssComments.aspx?TabID=102&ModuleID=441&ArticleID=677 http://www.scrum.org/DesktopModules/DnnForge%20-%20NewsArticles/Tracking/Trackback.aspx?ArticleID=677&PortalID=0&TabID=102 http://www.scrum.org/About/All-Articles/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/677/Four-simple-principles-for-highly-effective-teams Bruce Kasanoff Scrum Admin Mon, 08 Apr 2013 19:46:00 GMT f1397696-738c-4295-afcd-943feb885714:677 http://www.scrum.org/About/All-Articles/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/664/The-Value-of-the-Product-Backlog#Comments 0 http://www.scrum.org/DesktopModules/DnnForge%20-%20NewsArticles/RssComments.aspx?TabID=102&ModuleID=441&ArticleID=664 http://www.scrum.org/DesktopModules/DnnForge%20-%20NewsArticles/Tracking/Trackback.aspx?ArticleID=664&PortalID=0&TabID=102 http://www.scrum.org/About/All-Articles/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/664/The-Value-of-the-Product-Backlog Gunther Verheyen Gunther Verheyen Wed, 03 Apr 2013 14:49:00 GMT f1397696-738c-4295-afcd-943feb885714:664 http://www.scrum.org/About/All-Articles/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/663/Non-Functional-Requirements-and-Scrum#Comments 0 http://www.scrum.org/DesktopModules/DnnForge%20-%20NewsArticles/RssComments.aspx?TabID=102&ModuleID=441&ArticleID=663 http://www.scrum.org/DesktopModules/DnnForge%20-%20NewsArticles/Tracking/Trackback.aspx?ArticleID=663&PortalID=0&TabID=102 http://www.scrum.org/About/All-Articles/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/663/Non-Functional-Requirements-and-Scrum This webcast describes how Non Functional Requirements (NFR) can effectively be addressed with Scrum. Ralph Jocham Tue, 02 Apr 2013 16:23:00 GMT f1397696-738c-4295-afcd-943feb885714:663 http://www.scrum.org/About/All-Articles/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/662/The-essence-of-Agile-management#Comments 0 http://www.scrum.org/DesktopModules/DnnForge%20-%20NewsArticles/RssComments.aspx?TabID=102&ModuleID=441&ArticleID=662 http://www.scrum.org/DesktopModules/DnnForge%20-%20NewsArticles/Tracking/Trackback.aspx?ArticleID=662&PortalID=0&TabID=102 http://www.scrum.org/About/All-Articles/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/662/The-essence-of-Agile-management Cesario Ramos Cesario Ramos Tue, 02 Apr 2013 15:13:00 GMT f1397696-738c-4295-afcd-943feb885714:662 http://www.scrum.org/About/All-Articles/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/661/Agile-Retrospectives-for-High-Performing-Teams-Experiments-to-Take-Them-to-The-Next-Level#Comments 0 http://www.scrum.org/DesktopModules/DnnForge%20-%20NewsArticles/RssComments.aspx?TabID=102&ModuleID=441&ArticleID=661 http://www.scrum.org/DesktopModules/DnnForge%20-%20NewsArticles/Tracking/Trackback.aspx?ArticleID=661&PortalID=0&TabID=102 http://www.scrum.org/About/All-Articles/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/661/Agile-Retrospectives-for-High-Performing-Teams-Experiments-to-Take-Them-to-The-Next-Level Derek Hubbard Scrum Admin Fri, 29 Mar 2013 18:45:00 GMT f1397696-738c-4295-afcd-943feb885714:661 http://www.scrum.org/About/All-Articles/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/660/Professional-Scrum-Developer-Objective-Domain#Comments 0 http://www.scrum.org/DesktopModules/DnnForge%20-%20NewsArticles/RssComments.aspx?TabID=102&ModuleID=441&ArticleID=660 http://www.scrum.org/DesktopModules/DnnForge%20-%20NewsArticles/Tracking/Trackback.aspx?ArticleID=660&PortalID=0&TabID=102 http://www.scrum.org/About/All-Articles/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/660/Professional-Scrum-Developer-Objective-Domain A Professional Scrum Developer has a knowledge of Scrum and is able to work effectively on a Development Team within the Scrum framework while delivering value in the form of working software. This outline lists those general and specific things a certified Professional Scrum Developer knows. Scrum Admin Tue, 26 Mar 2013 22:06:00 GMT f1397696-738c-4295-afcd-943feb885714:660 http://www.scrum.org/About/All-Articles/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/659/The-Insufficiency-of-Scrum-is-a-fallacy#Comments 0 http://www.scrum.org/DesktopModules/DnnForge%20-%20NewsArticles/RssComments.aspx?TabID=102&ModuleID=441&ArticleID=659 http://www.scrum.org/DesktopModules/DnnForge%20-%20NewsArticles/Tracking/Trackback.aspx?ArticleID=659&PortalID=0&TabID=102 http://www.scrum.org/About/All-Articles/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/659/The-Insufficiency-of-Scrum-is-a-fallacy Martin Hinshelwood MrHinsh Mon, 25 Mar 2013 15:50:00 GMT f1397696-738c-4295-afcd-943feb885714:659 http://www.scrum.org/About/All-Articles/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/658/Scrum-Framework-not-methodology#Comments 0 http://www.scrum.org/DesktopModules/DnnForge%20-%20NewsArticles/RssComments.aspx?TabID=102&ModuleID=441&ArticleID=658 http://www.scrum.org/DesktopModules/DnnForge%20-%20NewsArticles/Tracking/Trackback.aspx?ArticleID=658&PortalID=0&TabID=102 http://www.scrum.org/About/All-Articles/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/658/Scrum-Framework-not-methodology Gunther Verheyen Gunther Verheyen Fri, 22 Mar 2013 14:16:00 GMT f1397696-738c-4295-afcd-943feb885714:658 http://www.scrum.org/About/All-Articles/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/634/Release-Cadence-Youre-Not-Agile-If-Youre-Not-Shipping#Comments 0 http://www.scrum.org/DesktopModules/DnnForge%20-%20NewsArticles/RssComments.aspx?TabID=102&ModuleID=441&ArticleID=634 http://www.scrum.org/DesktopModules/DnnForge%20-%20NewsArticles/Tracking/Trackback.aspx?ArticleID=634&PortalID=0&TabID=102 http://www.scrum.org/About/All-Articles/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/634/Release-Cadence-Youre-Not-Agile-If-Youre-Not-Shipping Ryan Cromwell Ryan Cromwell Wed, 13 Mar 2013 16:39:00 GMT f1397696-738c-4295-afcd-943feb885714:634 http://www.scrum.org/About/All-Articles/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/633/Assigning-value-to-information-in-the-Scrum-framework#Comments 0 http://www.scrum.org/DesktopModules/DnnForge%20-%20NewsArticles/RssComments.aspx?TabID=102&ModuleID=441&ArticleID=633 http://www.scrum.org/DesktopModules/DnnForge%20-%20NewsArticles/Tracking/Trackback.aspx?ArticleID=633&PortalID=0&TabID=102 http://www.scrum.org/About/All-Articles/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/633/Assigning-value-to-information-in-the-Scrum-framework Paul Kuijten Paul Kuijten Mon, 11 Mar 2013 14:48:00 GMT f1397696-738c-4295-afcd-943feb885714:633