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Smits Management Consultancy

Scrum - a project management framework for agile projects

Scrum is an agile, lightweight process that can be used to manage and control software and product development using iterative, incremental practices. Wrapping existing engineering practices, including Extreme Programming and RUP, Scrum generates the benefits of agile development with the advantages of a simple implementation. Scrum significantly increases productivity and reduces time to benefits while facilitating adaptive, empirical systems development.

Some websites of interest

Scrum Alliance - home for all matters concerning Scrum

Jeff Sutherland - co-founder of Scrum

Ken Schwaber - co-founder of Scrum

Mike Cohn - home for all matters concerning agile estimating and planning

Introduction articles

The Scrum Primer by Pete Deemer and Gabrielle Benefield is excellent.

Mike Cohn provides a PowerPoint deck which you may want to use.

And a bit less serious, but still about Scrum: the trainers video.

More serious, Ken Schwaber in a video recording of a Google TechTalk.

And I did a techtalk as well, on Five Levels of Agile Planning.

Other papers and places of interest

Together with Ken Schwaber I wrote an article on introducing Scrum in a larger organization: CIO Playbook For Adopting Scrum 072505.pdf.

On my own I wrote about Smits - Five Levels of Agile Planning.pdf.

A popular Yahoo! discussion group is ScrumDev.

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Learning about Scrum

I can certify you and your teams as a Certified ScrumMaster or a Certified Scrum Product Owner. My public classes are listed on Agile University, or contact me for in-company training.