Building an Agile Organization Part 2

How can I find qualified Scrum help? “The Professional Scrum Master® (PSM® I) Certification from Scrum.Org is one of the most valuable agile certifications in the market. The greater the depth and extent of knowledge needed to earn a certificate, the greater its value.  By this measure, the PSM assessments are significantly more valuable than … Continue reading →

Building an Agile Organization Part 1

Part 1:  What is Scrum certification? Can you count on it as meaningful in selecting people? “CIOs need to embrace agile development as quickly as possible. Agile has the capability to transform IT-business relationships as well as have a positive effect on IT value delivery.[1]” “Getting experienced outside help … has a positive impact to … Continue reading →

Programmers – I need your help

Programmers … I need your help! I founded Scrum.org to help developers use Scrum, doing iterative, incremental development. The Scrum.org site needs to be redesigned, on top of new technologies. Then we have more work building measurement tools, data repositories and management, SDKs, and tools to help Scrum Teams do better. I need 2-3 full … Continue reading →

Scrum Development Kit

On Tuesday, Jeff Sutherland and I will be celebrating the twentieth anniversary of Scrum’s first public appearance. Those twenty years were my warm up for the next twenty, when I will focus on improving our professionalism. Specifically, I will be done when all Scrum teams deliver “done”, potentially shippable, in operations and usable, increments of … Continue reading →

Quality, Done Increment

Every Sprint in Scaled Professional Scrum requires a completed, ready to ship increment of functionality. The ubiquitous “definition of done” spells out the characteristics of such an increment. The end result should include software that has: Presence of valuable functionality for customers to use; Absence of low value functionality that must be maintained and sustained regardless; … Continue reading →

Practitioner Certification

The PSM, PSPO, and PSD I assessments have proven extremely useful. The role-based assessment helps people validate their knowledge of Scrum. A resulting certification demonstrates that knowledge to others, including potential employers. Scrum teams that bring these people on board are assured that the person knows their role. We are introducing the next level assessment. … Continue reading →

Scaling, the Nexus, and Scrumbling

I will be conducting a Nexus workshop in Boston on November 17-18, with Richard Hundhausen and Rob Maher, based on the Nexus Guide. Of interest to many, SDK, API architectures, and remediation Scrumbles, and DevOps. Many Scrum teams deliver a “done”, potentially shippable increment at the end of each Sprint. As the number of teams rises, as the project scales, … Continue reading →

Nexus

I will be conducting a Nexus workshop in Boston on November 17-18, with Richard Hundhausen and Rob Maher, fleshing out the Nexus Guide with examples, case studies, practices and tooling –         Why Nexus? The word Nexus refers to a connected group or series that are integrated, linked together. When I use the phrase Nexus. I also … Continue reading →

Scale Scrum Projects Better – August 25-26 Irvine CA

Workshop information Free – for desperate people without budget (but not for consultants) who are willing to provide work in kind during  the workshop. $300 – for people figuring out how to scale their project or in the middle of a scaled project that is overwhelmed with dependencies and “done” is unknown – but have … Continue reading →

Greed and Control Can Ruin an Industry and Movement

It has come to my attention that Scrum Alliance is trying to register a trademark on, “SCRUM USER GROUP,” at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.  Word on the street is that that the Trademark Office has indicated that it will publish this trademark shortly for opposition.  If no one opposes, I understand that the … Continue reading →