Register Now: The Second Free Agile Webcast Series

Daniel Greening, former Director of Engineering Productivity and User Experience at Citrix, will be delivering Scrum.org's second Agile Webcast Series event on Tuesday, February 7th, 11:00am-12:00pm (EST), completely free to you.

In Release Duration and Enterprise Agility, Daniel explores how the adoption of Scrum and Agile by the example company, Citrix Online, drove release duration down from a peak of 41 months to less than 4, better than what it had as a small startup. Its market share rose during the same period.

Data from another company, PatientKeeper, also seems to indicate that short release durations correlate with more profitable outcomes. Learn about all the benefits of short release durations in this free webcast.

Space is limited. Register soon.

Scrum.org Launches Agile Webcast Series

We are excited to announce the premier of the Scrum.org Global Webcast Series, an ongoing public discourse on Agile, Scrum, and professional software development. This free series kicks off January 24th with The Dollars and Sense of Agility, presented by Chad Albrecht, Agile Practice VP at Centare.

The Scrum.org Global Webcast Series brings the world's top Agile, Scrum, and Professional Software Development thought leaders to you, with topics that are interesting, educational, relevant, and presented by experts from within the professional software development community.

Be part of the interactive webcasts live as they happen, or watch archived versions at your convenience. Archived webcast episodes will eventually be avilable at the Scrum.org website. 

Space is limited in each live Scrum.org webcast, so register soon.

A Fresh New Look

Scrum.org has revamped its front page to make it easier for you to find the Scrum-related content you need. Users have asked for more varied and dynamic content, especially from practitioners in different companies, industries, and countries around the world.

The first major change you'll notice is an increased focus on content created by the Scrum.org community. These articles will be updated regularly so you will want to come back often. Let us know which other people you'd like to see highlighted.

The second major change is the events section. These are events that members of the Scrum.org community are supporting around the world. Support means sponsoring, speaking at, and/or attending. These events are great and we predict you'll want to check them out.

You wanted more. Here it is. Please let us know what you think by sending us an email at suggestions@scrum.org.

Professional Scrum Developer, now even better

Scrum.org announces the newest addition to the Professional Scrum Developer (PSD) program family: the 3-day variation for Scrum Practitioners.

Those that have completed the 5-day PSD program, now called PSD+, have experienced a learning environment that is unrivaled in today's marketplace. Students are exposed to the fundamentals of Scrum and then they are taken through 4-5 sprints of actual development work on a cross-functional team, using cutting edge tools and software development best practices, to build a potentially releasable increment of software.

However, a number of people have told us they need something else. These people want the experience, the exposure, and the rigor of the PSD+ program. But, they don’t necessarily need the “Scrumdamentals” portion of the course, or all five Sprints to understand the cadence of Scrum. These practitioners need something that leverages their existing knowledge of Scrum development, while still giving them the additional tools to super-charge their productivity.

This is why today we are announcing the launch of this much-requested program for Developers who have a good working understanding of Scrum (from professional experience, or a previous Scrum course like Professional Scrum Foundations). It is PSD+, just condensed for those folks that have already built up their Scrum foundation. You can learn more here.

Scrum is Open for Modification and Extension

Today, Scrum.org and Scrum Inc. are announcing a formal model for modifying and extending Scrum. Scrum's creators, Jeff Sutherland and Ken Schwaber, are inviting practitioners from around the world to contribute to Scrum's future.

Scrum was first developed 15+ years ago, and it has been evolving and adapting ever since. Informed by their experiences and those of the Scrum community, Jeff and Ken have carefully codified the framework in the Scrum Guide, which documents the basic rules, artifacts, and events of Scrum.

Today's announcement marks a new era in Scrum's evolution by making available a public mechanism for providing feedback on the Scrum Guide and a model for proposing extensions to the basic framework.

The formal process for proposing and integrating changes into Scrum is available online at Scrum.org. To learn more about Scrum, or proposing your own contribution to Scrum, you can use the following links:

Read It
Change It
Extend It

We look forward to hearing from you.