February 2007 Archives

Scrum and Lean

As a Scrum coach and practitioner, I find that Scrum itself, backed up by my experience, provides most of the guidance that I need to advise clients during agile transitions. However, sometimes it is useful to look at other flavours of agile. Lean Software Development, which shares a common ancestry with Scrum in that they were both inspired by the Toyota Production System and the Toyota Product Development System, provides additional insight that can be used in combination with Scrum.

Posted by Simon on Feb 20, 2007

Scrum auf Deutsch

We’ve translated Mike Cohn’s re-distributable Introduction to Scrum into German. You can get it here. It’s licensed using the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License. Please let us know if you make improvements.

Update. Mike Cohn has kindly added the German version to the Mountain Goat Software web site. You can access it here.

Posted by Simon on Feb 12, 2007