Agile Principles and Values

Posted on April 28, 2012 by Joe Little

Jeff Sutherland recently wrote, apropos the Agile Manifesto, a bunch of things about some key Agile values and principles. Excellent stuff.

As some of you know, I think it is essential for people doing agile or scrum to know and be in sync with the values and principles. What I call “the music.” Otherwise, the dance steps of agile or scrum, without the music….they just always dance them ugly. Well, anyone would, without the music.

See here for Jeff’s thoughts.

And here is one quote:

Commitment to work together happens only when people agree on common goals and then struggle to improve both personally and as a team.
Enjoy.

Hyperproductive Distributed Scrum

Posted on September 7, 2008 by Joe Little

Back on July 21, 2008, Jeff Sutherland gave a talk on Hyperproductive Distributed Scrum at the Googleplex in NYC.

Here is the video.

Self-Organization in Scrum

Posted on September 6, 2008 by Joe Little

Last Thursday, Sept 4, 2008, Jeff Sutherland gave a talk on Self Organization in Scrum at Google in NYC. The talk also covered some of the associated contradictions (or perhaps, seeming contradictions).

Here are the slides from the talk. Google video to come soon.

Jeff Sutherland in Charlotte July 11-12

Posted on May 11, 2007 by Joe Little

Jeff Sutherland will teach a Certified ScrumMaster course in Charlotte on July 11-12.

See Jeff’s blog for some information. See here for specific information. And see here to register.

Jeff includes a lot of ideas associated with XP and Lean in his practice of Scrum. (And equally, Kent Beck and the Poppendiecks have been influenced by Jeff Sutherland, in my opinion.)