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Book Short: Scrum ptious . I just finished reading Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time , by Jeff Sutherland and JJ Sutherland. Sutherland gets credit for creating the agile framework and bringing the concept scrum to software development over 20 years ago. MORE
Scrum: a flexible way to manage product development. Finally, let’s take a look at the increasingly popular problem-solving method—especially in the technology sector—known as scrum. So what does scrum look like in the modern workplace? MORE
Solution #1: At least once a week have a scrum meeting that absolutely everyone prioritizes. After the scrum, if time allows, hang out and catch up. Denis Duvauchelle is the CEO and co-founder of Twoodo , the ultimate online collaboration tool. “I I can’t work effectively at home.”. MORE
It is written in similar style to the Scrum book I’ve used to learn how to become a successful engineering leader. This book is based on the Scrum book that impacted my life significantly as an engineer. MORE
Many project management frameworks are rooted in agile, such as scrum, kanban, lean, and extreme programming (XP). Agile methodology typically breaks projects down into smaller increments to be worked on in short time frames (“sprints,” if you’re using scrum). MORE
In the same vein, because not as many entrepreneurs in Los Angeles worked at companies like Google or Facebook, a lot of them have not really gotten the training they need to properly communicate requirements, run a scrum, or conduct A/B testing. Almost 30 years ago, my father decided to uproot the entire family from Taiwan to the United States so that his academically “inconsistent” son could have an education tolerant and perhaps even encouraging of his idiosyncrasies. MORE
But just as learning Scrum or Kanban doesn’t teach a developer how to actually craft scalable software, it doesn't teach a product manager how to actually lead a product. Five years ago I wrote an article arguing that it is essential that the product manager is also the product owner. MORE
I had never tried a spontaneous scrum like this before and it was great fun. I continue to be fascinated with the changing art of product management. This week, I taught a class at Intelligent.ly on the topic. Intelligent.ly MORE
At my last startup we eventually started using a process called "scrum," which is basically a framework for managing agile engineering projects. However, one of the great things about scrum is that you are always estimating forward the amount of work remaining in a given task. MORE
For many years, as teams move to Agile methods (they usually start with Scrum), many companies decide to contract with or hire an Agile Coach. In my last article on Discovery Sprints I mentioned the concept of Discovery Coaches and several people asked me about that, so I thought I’d describe more about what this role is and when it’s helpful. MORE
We keep ourselves accountable to those goals through company progress dashboards, Scrum, etc. This is a guest post from Ben Rubin , co-founder and CEO of Change Collective , which offers courses for behavior change with world-class experts. MORE
Luckily, we have found a way to make sure no team member has to work unnatural hours for our daily scrums. I love working with people from around the world and truly believe that distributed teams provide huge benefits for small businesses and startups. MORE
Scrum methodology. Scrum was developed for the software world since it is all about adapting to altering parameters and productivity. Professionalisms agile methodology project management scrum methodology Waterfall methodologyby Lewis Robinson. MORE
As a dynamic business leader and a Certified Scrum Master, Humberto leads a team of highly skilled software engineers and developers as CEO and co-founder at Concepta , providing tailored web and mobile applications to small-to-medium enterprises. MORE
He’s also a certified Scrum Product Owner, ITIL Foundation Certified and a practitioner of Pragmatic Marketing and Journey Mapping. By Alan Glazer, Senior Product Manager at Hostway Services, Inc. Startups in every industry have their work cut out for them. MORE
Which is why I'm a big advocate for what is sometimes referred to as Dual-Track Scrum. Jeff Patton first shared with me the term "Dual-Track Scrum" and I prefer this term because it better captures the parallel nature of Discovery and Delivery. Another reason I like the Dual-Track Scrum metaphor is that I find many people essentially doing little mini-waterfalls within their Scrum framework. Lean UX and Dual-Track Scrum are made for each other. MORE
With the continuous discovery and delivery trends, many teams are finding that Scrum as a process can be limiting, and that Kanban tends to fit this continuous discovery and delivery model better. Even short of moving to Kanban, I have found many Scrum teams that have adapted Scrum in a Kanban direction for exactly this reason. In this case, they are mainly using the time-boxing of Scrum as a way to structure work and encourage a frequent retrospective. MORE
As Marketer Gizmo explains : When they hear the phrase “agile marketing,” most people think of the Scrum methodology. Featuring sprints, daily standup meetings, and a public “to-do” list known as the Backlog, Scrum is one of the most popular frameworks for implementing departmental agility. The goal of Scrum is to provide a framework that creates a culture of transparency, inspection, and adaptation while making it easier for team members to produce consistently great products. MORE
A great post , Joe Little starts with acknowledging that Scrum and Agile proponents often downplay upfront planning. I've done four Free CTO Consulting Sessions in the past month with startup founders who all had run into variations of the same problem. MORE
from Scrum to Kanban), or a "pivot" of a dedicated product team to work on something else (I guess this is supposed to make the team feel better about the new assignment, because pivots are something cool teams do). The term "pivot" is probably one of the most overused and abused terms in today's product teams. If you're not familiar with the concept, see Your Business Plan Is Wrong. As I work with different teams I find the term used in so many different ways. MORE
In this episode, Peter and Jonathan discuss Kaizen, Kanban, and Scrum methodology and how they can be applied to small businesses. Atlassian: A Brief Introduction to Scrum. Forbes: Scrum is a Major Management Discovery . Scrum is more of a process, an application of process. MORE
Levels of Agile adoption span the full spectrum across our 6 Scrum teams. The role of scrum master has become less relevant as each team member owns their own accountability. This article is a guest post by Jeff Gothelf, Director of User Experience at TheLadders in New York City. MORE
See Also: How to Solve Problems in Your Business: Kanban, Kaizen, and Scrum. As a new startup, you’re likely well aware of how inventory costs money and how those costs can quickly add up the longer you go without orders. MORE
The concept of a scrum is a good one to use in many cases of immediate need to coordinate a working group. Scrums are effective and should be short, scheduled, and supervised. Imagine yourself with a calendar requiring you to be in six meetings in a day. Day after day. MORE
His nickname is Tank and I wouldn’t have minded having him as a teammate in my rugby playing days either, holding me up in the scrum! I joined Lightspeed ten years ago. It’s been an amazing ride. MORE
The Sprint meeting must be facilitated by the Scrum Master and clarifications about the product backlog items must be provided by a Product Owner. The Product Owner and Scrum Master must work together with the Agile Team towards achieving the sprint commitment. MORE
In my last article I talked about one technique for applying Scrum concepts to product discovery – the opportunity backlog. This is at the heart of Scrum as a method, and is especially well suited to delivery because of our critical need to have frequent, consistent release vehicles. This model of working is often referred to as dual-track Scrum. MORE
Before we dive into the marketing applications, however, let’s briefly cover what scrum is and how it came to be. An Introduction to Scrum and Agile Development. Scrum is a framework for developing and sustaining complex products.” sourced from the Scrum Guide. MORE
He’s also a certified Scrum Product Owner, ITIL Foundation Certified and a practitioner of Pragmatic Marketing and Journey Mapping. By Alan Glazer, Senior Product Manager at Hostway Services, Inc. MORE
You see it when a Scrum team is frustrated because they have multiple product owners to deal with, or when product managers have to constantly fight for resources that keep disappearing. Notes: - This entire discussion relates strongly to the dedicated team model (see [link] ) and also to the development process the team is using (especially true with Scrum). MORE
Or if you want to go back to 2004 and 2005 when I was really learning about Agile, well before it had become a household name, you could read my posts Agile Software Development with SCRUM or Do You Develop Software For A Living? – Congrats to my friends at Rally Software on the announcement that they’ve signed a definitive agreement to be acquired by CA Technologies for $480 million. MORE
I much prefer Agile methods like Scrum over Waterfall because of how much less weight is given to “requirements” in Scrum. I’m not the first person to come to this conclusion, but over the years, I’ve really come to dislike the entire concept of a “requirement.” ” I’ve learned that so many things that look like “requirements” really are just a perception, or assumption, or an illusion. MORE
English has become the lingua franca for doing business, while the technical jargon is as familiar (or cryptic) in Alexandria as in Mountain View: Scrum, sprints, Git, Cassandra, Hadoop. MORE
Scrum teams can actually be forced into Big Bang releases too. What is a “Big Bang” release? This is when a team works for several months on a project with the intention of pushing it live in one big product creation event. Note that Big Bang is not necessarily the same as Waterfall, but it is an all too common consequence of Waterfall. But it’s not limited to Waterfall. Why is this a problem? Because it almost never goes well. MORE
Scrum boards went up detailing everything they needed to accomplish by Friday afternoon. Scrum boards are a huge success for kid teams. MORE
And one of the reasons I advocate for Scrum is that as a process it values this role of project manager as “impediment remover” (known as the Scrum Master role). You can generally spot the situation because software development moves very slowly, and the team tends to view the project manager (or Scrum Master) as an obstacle rather than an obstacle remover. Readers of my book and articles know how much I value a strong project manager. MORE
Scrum boards went up detailing everything they needed to accomplish by Friday afternoon. Scrum boards are a huge success for kid teams. MORE
Let me now highlight some of the book’s salient concepts: Managing the Team : Similar to “herding cats”, social media units can be managed like “scrum teams” where work is broken into small chunks with specific tasks assigned and monitored daily. MORE
You have development practices in place (Agile, Scrum, test driven, etc). You already have other top tier tech talent that they can learn from, get mentorship from, and be challenged by. You're working on a technically interesting problem. A technical person is the one recruiting them. You can pay at or above market rate, which is already pretty high right now. You don't lowball, sending a signal that you don't value devs. MORE
You can uncover how to become one of those fully-trained and certified Agile (and its popular Scrum framework) masters with this Agile and Scrum Project Management Certification Bundle. MORE
Lots of break-out areas and scrum bars. Ok, so I didn’t know what a scrum bar was before we had them (see below). I can’t tell you how excited I am about the new Engauge office in Atlanta. An office environment is incredibly important to the culture of a company. MORE
I’m only up to episode 5 of the first series (late convert) but already Erlich has saved the day with an off-the-cuff speech to a key investor about the company’s vision and Jared has implemented a scrum development process without which they would have missed a key deadline. MORE
I’ve written a lot in the past about how smart entrepreneurs harness company culture as a tool to drive success. Most of that work has centred around being clear on vision, mission and values and it’s never too early for founders start thinking about these things. MORE
The result is a combination of design thinking, Lean Startup, and Agile Scrum, and Ignacio’s innovation team includes 25 coaches who train employees in PACE best practices. Guest Post by Misti Yang, Writer for Lean Startup Co. MORE
SCRUM Related Topics OnlyOnce
MAY 12, 2016
Book Short: Scrum ptious . I just finished reading Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time , by Jeff Sutherland and JJ Sutherland. Sutherland gets credit for creating the agile framework and bringing the concept scrum to software development over 20 years ago.
Up and Running
SEPTEMBER 28, 2015
Scrum: a flexible way to manage product development. Finally, let’s take a look at the increasingly popular problem-solving method—especially in the technology sector—known as scrum. So what does scrum look like in the modern workplace?
ConversionXL
JUNE 13, 2017
Before we dive into the marketing applications, however, let’s briefly cover what scrum is and how it came to be. An Introduction to Scrum and Agile Development. Scrum is a framework for developing and sustaining complex products.” sourced from the Scrum Guide.
SVPG
SEPTEMBER 17, 2012
Which is why I'm a big advocate for what is sometimes referred to as Dual-Track Scrum. Jeff Patton first shared with me the term "Dual-Track Scrum" and I prefer this term because it better captures the parallel nature of Discovery and Delivery. Another reason I like the Dual-Track Scrum metaphor is that I find many people essentially doing little mini-waterfalls within their Scrum framework. Lean UX and Dual-Track Scrum are made for each other.
The Next Web
DECEMBER 3, 2017
You can uncover how to become one of those fully-trained and certified Agile (and its popular Scrum framework) masters with this Agile and Scrum Project Management Certification Bundle.
The Startup Magazine
JUNE 30, 2018
The Sprint meeting must be facilitated by the Scrum Master and clarifications about the product backlog items must be provided by a Product Owner. The Product Owner and Scrum Master must work together with the Agile Team towards achieving the sprint commitment.
YoungUpstarts
JUNE 13, 2016
Scrum methodology. Scrum was developed for the software world since it is all about adapting to altering parameters and productivity. Professionalisms agile methodology project management scrum methodology Waterfall methodologyby Lewis Robinson.
Berkonomics
SEPTEMBER 22, 2016
The concept of a scrum is a good one to use in many cases of immediate need to coordinate a working group. Scrums are effective and should be short, scheduled, and supervised. Imagine yourself with a calendar requiring you to be in six meetings in a day. Day after day.
The Equity Kicker
AUGUST 21, 2015
I’m only up to episode 5 of the first series (late convert) but already Erlich has saved the day with an off-the-cuff speech to a key investor about the company’s vision and Jared has implemented a scrum development process without which they would have missed a key deadline.
SVPG
DECEMBER 8, 2010
And one of the reasons I advocate for Scrum is that as a process it values this role of project manager as “impediment remover” (known as the Scrum Master role). You can generally spot the situation because software development moves very slowly, and the team tends to view the project manager (or Scrum Master) as an obstacle rather than an obstacle remover. Readers of my book and articles know how much I value a strong project manager.
Guy Nirpaz
MAY 1, 2016
It is written in similar style to the Scrum book I’ve used to learn how to become a successful engineering leader. This book is based on the Scrum book that impacted my life significantly as an engineer.
Up and Running
NOVEMBER 16, 2015
In this episode, Peter and Jonathan discuss Kaizen, Kanban, and Scrum methodology and how they can be applied to small businesses. Atlassian: A Brief Introduction to Scrum. Forbes: Scrum is a Major Management Discovery . Scrum is more of a process, an application of process.
ReadWriteStart
APRIL 15, 2011
At my last startup we eventually started using a process called "scrum," which is basically a framework for managing agile engineering projects. However, one of the great things about scrum is that you are always estimating forward the amount of work remaining in a given task.
Steve Blank
MARCH 2, 2013
Scrum boards went up detailing everything they needed to accomplish by Friday afternoon. Scrum boards are a huge success for kid teams.
The Equity Kicker
AUGUST 20, 2015
I’ve written a lot in the past about how smart entrepreneurs harness company culture as a tool to drive success. Most of that work has centred around being clear on vision, mission and values and it’s never too early for founders start thinking about these things.
Feld Thoughts
MAY 28, 2015
Or if you want to go back to 2004 and 2005 when I was really learning about Agile, well before it had become a household name, you could read my posts Agile Software Development with SCRUM or Do You Develop Software For A Living? – Congrats to my friends at Rally Software on the announcement that they’ve signed a definitive agreement to be acquired by CA Technologies for $480 million.
View from Seed
AUGUST 5, 2014
We keep ourselves accountable to those goals through company progress dashboards, Scrum, etc. This is a guest post from Ben Rubin , co-founder and CEO of Change Collective , which offers courses for behavior change with world-class experts.
crowdSPRING Blog
OCTOBER 25, 2016
As Marketer Gizmo explains : When they hear the phrase “agile marketing,” most people think of the Scrum methodology. Featuring sprints, daily standup meetings, and a public “to-do” list known as the Backlog, Scrum is one of the most popular frameworks for implementing departmental agility. The goal of Scrum is to provide a framework that creates a culture of transparency, inspection, and adaptation while making it easier for team members to produce consistently great products.
Steve Blank
MARCH 2, 2013
Scrum boards went up detailing everything they needed to accomplish by Friday afternoon. Scrum boards are a huge success for kid teams.
YoungUpstarts
JANUARY 7, 2018
As a dynamic business leader and a Certified Scrum Master, Humberto leads a team of highly skilled software engineers and developers as CEO and co-founder at Concepta , providing tailored web and mobile applications to small-to-medium enterprises.
Jeff Hilimire
SEPTEMBER 20, 2010
Lots of break-out areas and scrum bars. Ok, so I didn’t know what a scrum bar was before we had them (see below). I can’t tell you how excited I am about the new Engauge office in Atlanta. An office environment is incredibly important to the culture of a company.
Startup Lessons Learned
DECEMBER 14, 2017
The result is a combination of design thinking, Lean Startup, and Agile Scrum, and Ignacio’s innovation team includes 25 coaches who train employees in PACE best practices. Guest Post by Misti Yang, Writer for Lean Startup Co.
SVPG
OCTOBER 24, 2012
With the continuous discovery and delivery trends, many teams are finding that Scrum as a process can be limiting, and that Kanban tends to fit this continuous discovery and delivery model better. Even short of moving to Kanban, I have found many Scrum teams that have adapted Scrum in a Kanban direction for exactly this reason. In this case, they are mainly using the time-boxing of Scrum as a way to structure work and encourage a frequent retrospective.
SVPG
DECEMBER 13, 2016
But just as learning Scrum or Kanban doesn’t teach a developer how to actually craft scalable software, it doesn't teach a product manager how to actually lead a product. Five years ago I wrote an article arguing that it is essential that the product manager is also the product owner.
Seeing Both Sides
DECEMBER 12, 2012
I had never tried a spontaneous scrum like this before and it was great fun. I continue to be fascinated with the changing art of product management. This week, I taught a class at Intelligent.ly on the topic. Intelligent.ly
SVPG
OCTOBER 14, 2010
I much prefer Agile methods like Scrum over Waterfall because of how much less weight is given to “requirements” in Scrum. I’m not the first person to come to this conclusion, but over the years, I’ve really come to dislike the entire concept of a “requirement.” ” I’ve learned that so many things that look like “requirements” really are just a perception, or assumption, or an illusion.
YoungUpstarts
OCTOBER 29, 2015
He’s also a certified Scrum Product Owner, ITIL Foundation Certified and a practitioner of Pragmatic Marketing and Journey Mapping. By Alan Glazer, Senior Product Manager at Hostway Services, Inc. Startups in every industry have their work cut out for them.
Lightspeed Venture Partners
APRIL 12, 2016
His nickname is Tank and I wouldn’t have minded having him as a teammate in my rugby playing days either, holding me up in the scrum! I joined Lightspeed ten years ago. It’s been an amazing ride.
SVPG
AUGUST 20, 2012
In my last article I talked about one technique for applying Scrum concepts to product discovery – the opportunity backlog. This is at the heart of Scrum as a method, and is especially well suited to delivery because of our critical need to have frequent, consistent release vehicles. This model of working is often referred to as dual-track Scrum.
SoCal CTO
JUNE 26, 2012
A great post , Joe Little starts with acknowledging that Scrum and Agile proponents often downplay upfront planning. I've done four Free CTO Consulting Sessions in the past month with startup founders who all had run into variations of the same problem.
YoungUpstarts
FEBRUARY 9, 2015
He’s also a certified Scrum Product Owner, ITIL Foundation Certified and a practitioner of Pragmatic Marketing and Journey Mapping. By Alan Glazer, Senior Product Manager at Hostway Services, Inc.
SVPG
MARCH 10, 2016
For many years, as teams move to Agile methods (they usually start with Scrum), many companies decide to contract with or hire an Agile Coach. In my last article on Discovery Sprints I mentioned the concept of Discovery Coaches and several people asked me about that, so I thought I’d describe more about what this role is and when it’s helpful.
SVPG
SEPTEMBER 12, 2010
You see it when a Scrum team is frustrated because they have multiple product owners to deal with, or when product managers have to constantly fight for resources that keep disappearing. Notes: - This entire discussion relates strongly to the dedicated team model (see [link] ) and also to the development process the team is using (especially true with Scrum).
YoungUpstarts
JUNE 9, 2013
Let me now highlight some of the book’s salient concepts: Managing the Team : Similar to “herding cats”, social media units can be managed like “scrum teams” where work is broken into small chunks with specific tasks assigned and monitored daily.
Startup Lessons Learned
MAY 19, 2011
Levels of Agile adoption span the full spectrum across our 6 Scrum teams. The role of scrum master has become less relevant as each team member owns their own accountability. This article is a guest post by Jeff Gothelf, Director of User Experience at TheLadders in New York City.
Gust
AUGUST 22, 2012
English has become the lingua franca for doing business, while the technical jargon is as familiar (or cryptic) in Alexandria as in Mountain View: Scrum, sprints, Git, Cassandra, Hadoop.
Up and Running
NOVEMBER 18, 2015
See Also: How to Solve Problems in Your Business: Kanban, Kaizen, and Scrum. As a new startup, you’re likely well aware of how inventory costs money and how those costs can quickly add up the longer you go without orders.
crowdSPRING Blog
FEBRUARY 9, 2016
Luckily, we have found a way to make sure no team member has to work unnatural hours for our daily scrums. I love working with people from around the world and truly believe that distributed teams provide huge benefits for small businesses and startups.
Mucker Lab
AUGUST 27, 2014
In the same vein, because not as many entrepreneurs in Los Angeles worked at companies like Google or Facebook, a lot of them have not really gotten the training they need to properly communicate requirements, run a scrum, or conduct A/B testing. Almost 30 years ago, my father decided to uproot the entire family from Taiwan to the United States so that his academically “inconsistent” son could have an education tolerant and perhaps even encouraging of his idiosyncrasies.
SVPG
FEBRUARY 3, 2013
from Scrum to Kanban), or a "pivot" of a dedicated product team to work on something else (I guess this is supposed to make the team feel better about the new assignment, because pivots are something cool teams do). The term "pivot" is probably one of the most overused and abused terms in today's product teams. If you're not familiar with the concept, see Your Business Plan Is Wrong. As I work with different teams I find the term used in so many different ways.
SVPG
NOVEMBER 5, 2010
Scrum teams can actually be forced into Big Bang releases too. What is a “Big Bang” release? This is when a team works for several months on a project with the intention of pushing it live in one big product creation event. Note that Big Bang is not necessarily the same as Waterfall, but it is an all too common consequence of Waterfall. But it’s not limited to Waterfall. Why is this a problem? Because it almost never goes well.
This is going to be BIG.
JUNE 2, 2011
You have development practices in place (Agile, Scrum, test driven, etc). You already have other top tier tech talent that they can learn from, get mentorship from, and be challenged by. You're working on a technically interesting problem. A technical person is the one recruiting them. You can pay at or above market rate, which is already pretty high right now. You don't lowball, sending a signal that you don't value devs.
The Next Web
DECEMBER 4, 2013
Solution #1: At least once a week have a scrum meeting that absolutely everyone prioritizes. After the scrum, if time allows, hang out and catch up. Denis Duvauchelle is the CEO and co-founder of Twoodo , the ultimate online collaboration tool. “I I can’t work effectively at home.”.
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