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Certified Scrum Coach (CSC) – What you need to know

I started filling out my CSC (Certified Scrum Coach) application almost a year ago and then I stopped due to fear, uncertainty, and doubt. I had been...

0 replies - 1809 views - 04/16/10 by Michael Sahota in News

ScrumMaster Types

As with many other roles, all kinds of people fill in the role of the ScrumMaster. I see 5 types of ScrumMasters. These have nothing to do with the...

0 replies - 1869 views - 04/07/10 by Vincent Partington in News

Failure Modes in Scrum

In this presentation, recorded at Øredev 2009, Jens Østergaard examines why Scrum is so hard to implement. He discusses failure modes for Scrum Master,...

0 replies - 3674 views - 03/16/10 by Nitin Bharti in Videos

Minimalism, The New Innovative

There’s so much room for observations and analogies in the evolution of production trends. Analogies are not merely a candy for the brain. They bring...

0 replies - 1914 views - 03/15/10 by Olga Kouzina in News

Some Day Kanban Will Fail 75% of the Time

Yesterday I had a bit of an argument on Twitter about differences between Scrum and Kanban. Personally I don't care which is better than the other, ...

5 replies - 2267 views - 03/12/10 by Jurgen Appelo in News

Does an organisation need to be fully committed to agile/lean/scrum?

Alan Atlas has a recent blog post where he discusses agile, lean and scrum and suggests that you can't truly achieve agility unless your company is fully...

3 replies - 1686 views - 03/11/10 by Mark Needham in News

VersionOne Expands Environment to All Stakeholders

A few months ago, DZone spoke with VersionOne CEO Robert Holler.  Since 2002, when VersionOne appeared, Holler says their customer cases have grown from 5-20...

0 replies - 2009 views - 03/09/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

In Defense of Scrum (Please Stop Pissing on It)

Last week Uncle Bob Martin wrote about seven “serious flaws” in Scrum. I usually agree with Bob, but not this time. Actually, I might even feel a bit...

1 replies - 2330 views - 03/08/10 by Jurgen Appelo in News

Having Your Cake... Some Thoughts Around Scrum Certification

To some extent, I think that Scrum is going through an identity crisis. Part of what has made Scrum so successful is its simplicity. We've got three...

0 replies - 1107 views - 03/08/10 by Mike Cottmeyer in News

Large-Scale Agile

There's been interest in "scaling Agile" since the beginning of the movement, but most of the early discussion was theoretical. There wasn't ...

3 replies - 2918 views - 02/26/10 by James Shore in News

CollabNet Goes Agile, Acquires Danube

Today, CollabNet announced that it has acquired Danube Technologies, a company that develops Scrum project management software and conducts Scrum certification...

0 replies - 2902 views - 02/22/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Product Owners in Practice

At the risk of being accused of bashing Scrum for the second time this week, I want to talk a little about the Product Owner role. What I want to explore...

1 replies - 1216 views - 02/15/10 by Mike Cottmeyer in News

Agile Adoption past the Team

In this presentation, recorded at Øredev 2009, Mike Cottmeyer explores a 3 month coaching engagement where one of his customers needed to coordinate...

0 replies - 1335 views - 02/09/10 by Nitin Bharti in Videos

New Sprint Burndown Charts in ScrumWorks Pro

Two months after their last release, Danube is now releasing the next version of ScrumWorks Pro, their Scrum implementation framework.  ScrumWorks Pro 4.3...

0 replies - 3698 views - 02/02/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Agile is for Real, Says Forrester

A new study by Forrester Research showed that nearly half of its developer and IT professional respondents use agile methods.  The study is indicative of the...

2 replies - 5381 views - 01/25/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles