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Adoption of Agile in Eastern Europe
The gap in agile adoption between Eastern Europe and the US and Western Europe is becoming smaller. Scrum is the most widespread framework, Kanban adoption is growing and SAFe, LeSS, DAD are trending. The way that companies are transitioning to agile is significantly different in Eastern Europe.
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Scrum Alliance Launches "Added Qualifications"
The Scrum Alliance has launched a new program of Added Qualifications aimed at existing CSM/CSPO certification holders who want to explore more advanced Scrum topics. The first Added Qualification is in Scaling Scrum Fundamentals to larger organizations and multiple teams. InfoQ spoke to Scrum Alliance Managing Director Carol McEwan about the new qualifications.
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Should Agile Projects Be Innovative?
Agile was considered to be synonymous with innovation. However, Scrum Alliance co-founder Mike Cohn earlier criticized modern Scrum for focusing too much on meeting the time goals at the expense of exploring innovative solutions
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Collaborative Adoption of Scrum Guide
Three of the organisations in the fractured Scrum community have jointly announced their collaboration and endorsement of the new ScrumGuides.org website as the official source of “The Scrum Guide, The Definitive Guide to Scrum: The Rules of the Game.”
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Regional Scrum Gathering India 2014 - Day 2
Regional Scrum Gathering India 2014- day 2 updates, talks , coaching clinic.
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Regional Scrum Gathering India 2014 - Day 1
Regional Scrum Gathering India 2014 talks, games , thoughts.
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Preconference Workshops and CSP+ Retreat at Regional Scrum Gathering India 2014
This news covers the preconference workshops and CSP+Retreat on day 1 of Regional Scrum Gathering India 2014.
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What HR or Managers can do to Support the Agile Transformation
In an agile adoption, there is need to develop and sustain an agile culture. What can the Human Resources department or managers do to support the agile in their company, and lower the chance on employees concerns about their roles, assessments of their performance, and on their work environment?
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Bloggers Attack Dr. Jeff Sutherland's Interest & Support of Frequency Foundation
In the last day several blogs have mentioned the interests of Dr. Jeff Sutherland, co-inventor of scrum, in an obscure and somewhat derided area of medical science: electronic medicine. This article covers the controversy.
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Scrum Alliance to Strengthen ScrumMaster (CSM) Certification
The CSM Certification from the Scrum Alliance is granted to individuals that participate in a two day certification course and complete a pass/pass (e.g. can’t be failed) test. The testing process will be changed in 2012 to include a pass/fail test, and a new Professional Development Unit (PDUs) program will be rolled out no later than January 2013 for CSM’s to maintain their certification.
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Scrum Extensions Update - 4th Quarter 2011
This is the 4th quarter 2011 update of scrum extensions. InfoQ will be looking at proposed and approved extensions each quarter to see how scrum changes and evolves.
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Should Agile Coaches Have a Code of Ethics?
Recently on the <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/agile-leaders">Agile Leaders mailing list</a> Dan Mezick initiated a discussion on the need for <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/agile-leaders/browse_thread/thread/23d77a7fd3797ea8">Agile Coaching Ethics</a>.
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Scrum Alliance Strengthens CSP Certification, Announces Beta
The Scrum Alliance announced plans to strengthen the Certified Scrum Professional (CSP) designation into "a certification program that meets worldwide standards for structure and testing required for accreditation." The CSP designation, goes beyond the CSM as it requires experience applying agile in the workplace. Details for a beta program will be in the next Scrum Alliance Newsletter.
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Tobias Mayer on Scrum Alliance; Part 2
Tobias Mayer's career in Scrum includes becoming one of the earliest Certified Scrum Trainers, or "CST”, authorized to grant the Certified Scrum Master credential to students who attend his Scrum courses. His career also includes being banished from the Scrum Alliance and later reinstated by Ken Schwaber, the co-creator of the Scrum framework. This is the final segment of a very candid interview.
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Tobias Mayer on Scrum Alliance
Tobias Mayer held a high-profile role at the Scrum Alliance. He quit, and wrote a scathing blog post about the Scrum Alliance. In that post, he questions the Scrum knowledge of the leaders, questions the integrity of the Scrum Alliance board, and asserts that that the Scrum Alliance "has become the epitome of the dysfunctional organization that Scrum practitioners are committed to transforming."