The story of how using Scrum helped one team complete a project outside the world of software with a minimal budget, almost no direction, and even less time.

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The community has spoken. Two new board members, representing the members of the Scrum Alliance, have been elected to serve on the Scrum Alliance Board of Directors. Want to know who you elected? Keep reading.

Scrum teams are tasked with finding the most optimal way to accomplish the work. To do this, they make decisions ranging from how best to meet goals to who should work on which tasks. Reaching group consensus can be difficult. Some opinions are more dominant than others; some voices more hesitant to speak out. Even in agreement, true consensus might not exist. Find out how to reach an agreement that everyone on the team can believe in.

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A downloadable, at-a-glance look at the values that guide Scrum Alliance Scrum User Groups

Get to know a little about each candidate who has been nominated for the two vacant SCM Director seats.

Our Scrum User Groups now number 100 and are growing every day. Have you found your place in a local Scrum User Group?

Get a behind the scenes look at Scrum Gatherings and Scrum User Groups.

An introduction to Scrum as presented at CQAA Lunch Learn session.

How one CSP discovered that when explaining product backlog items to new teams, it's best to avoid delving into details about the PBI itself and instead focus on the the workflow of a PBI and the interaction with the Scrum framework.

A recent report on AgileZone claims that ScrumMasters now earn more than Project Managers. Read on for the surprising details.

The Agile 2010 conference, long planned for Nashville, TN, suddenly had to be relocated due to severe flooding. Read the story of how this Scrum Alliance-sponsored conference used agile values and principles to respond quickly to change.

A while ago I wrote about my experiences with Scrum and a little helper I like to call Posty the Post-It note. Ok, so I dont actually call it that, but I do use the Post-It extensively when Im scrumming.

AgileIsrael2010 was a great and blasting event organized by AgileSparks. 450 professionals from around 150 companies attended. The event included case studies presentations and tracks about Scrum, Lean, Kanban, combining intros, games and advanced topics. There were also an ask the expert corner and a panel discussion --- and of course, lots of fun!

Sprint burndowns are an essential Scrum artifact. Teams use them throughout the sprint to track work remaining. But one CSP has found that, for his projects, a release burndown has become just as essential, especially when it comes to communicating with upper management.

Are your teams retrospectives really worth the effort? Do the problems you identify actually get solved? If not, your team might need some help learning how to use retrospectives to continuously improve. This article illustrates how Scrum teams can continuously improve by using a combination of their definition of done, working agreements, and the product backlog.