During a Scrum Certification course in Atlanta, I gave a presentation at CNN for the local Agile community - Pretty Good Scrum: Secret Sauce for Distributed Teams. A good time was had by all, particularly at the dinner after the Agile meeting.

Hi all, Today I faciliated a 1/2 day experiential report about Scrum by using Scrum. It was in Boston with an awesome group of about 36 people in attendance. Nobody really knew other people in the audience prior to the meeting.  Wow, how things changed using Scrum. As usual, I put the trust in the team and they were [...]

A lot of people confuse product vision with strategy vision for the company. Product vision has to do with crafting a product that is so cool that when people see it they don't understand how they ever lived without it. Most senior management teams have no product vision although for some companies like Apple, and several of OpenView Venture Partners startups, the CEO or the CTO is the product visionary.

Levy's article on the birth of the iPod shows how Steve Jobs hovered over every aspect of the iPod during its creation. He added features, removed features, ordered features, committed to the final dates, and showed up to evangelize the product when it was announced. This is what a Chief Product Owner should do and precious few companies have [...]

We have a team working on an Open Source Agile Contract. You can participate in the Open Plans Agile Contract Project. The following general principles are agreed upon.

Definitions
We mutually agree on working together, and thereby build trust in each others expertise.

Customer Participation in Scrum Team:
The Customer is expected to be active in the project. The role of the Customer includes the following:

1. Prioritize features by business value and have them implemented in order of maximum value
2. Mutually agreed estimates for all work items. The official representativ[...]

Hi all. Thought this was interesting: http://www.paidcontent.co.uk/entry/419-espn-renames-scrumcom-espnscrumcom-killing-its-best-asset/ Kind of makes http://www.implementingscrum.com/2006/10/02/scrum-get-out-the-vaseline/ into a conspiracy theory. Not really. But fun to think about. Maybe not. :). - mike vizdos

Sorry.  Life.  Ug.  I am sorry. I have the comic strip.  I need to write a great posting on it :). - mike vizdos

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Scrum Certification Atlanta 27-28 Oct 2008

Jeff Sutherland started the first Scrum at Easel Corporation in 1993. He worked with Ken Schwaber to emerge Scrum as a formal process at OOPSLA ’95. Together, they extended and enhanced Scrum at many software companies and IT organizations and helped write the Agile Manifesto.

Jeff is the CEO of Scrum, Inc. powered by OpenView Venture Partners and Agile coach to the OpenView venture group which runs all its internal operations with Scrum, as well as their portolio of software companies. As Senior Advisor t[...]

Yesterday, I gave the keynote presentation at the Scrum Gathering - Pretty Good Scrum: Secret Sauce for Distributed Teams. Ken Schwaber, Scrum Alliance leadership, and a packed house are all here. It is raining off and on in Stockholm so the weather is not great but the spirit is high.

I'll be doing a Certified ScrumMaster training with Henrik Kniberg on Thursday and Friday. You can still sign up for the course!

I'm beginning to incorporate learnings from OpenView Venture Partners portfolio companies. I meet with[...]