We see one scrum master responsible for two or more scrum teams in many organizations. Staffing budgets and management perspectives may influence an organization to entertain the idea of "thrashing" its scrum masters (i.e. working on multiple projects simultaneously)....
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Platinum Edge Globalizes Agile Coaching, Expands Team
Platinum Edge, LLC is pleased to announce that the company has continued global expansion to provide agile coaching on multiple continents with the goal of aligning teams, delivering better consistency, and transforming organizations to agile. Many of the large...
The Agile Manifesto’s Customer-Centric Approach
Forrester has released its 2016 annual industry research predictions. Of those findings, the power of the customer is prominent, and many companies still don’t operate accordingly. The impact of customer involvement on the success of business is nothing new—it’s...
Cures for Cost Overrun Mishaps
Bridge renovations, bullet trains, major sporting events, oil refineries, canals, commercial construction, healthcare applications, software upgrades—they’ve all made recent headlines with record-breaking cost overruns. Some of these reported cost overruns are not...
The Defense Industry’s Use of Scrum
Agile leadership techniques are often explained by contrasting with the military’s “command and control” approach. Although structured and hierarchal organizations like the military can make iterating and responding quickly to change difficult, the field model of...
Scrum for Dealing With Big Data
What are companies doing with all the data collected? They are empirically identifying patterns and responding to what they’re learning from those patterns. As fast as the data can be collected, decisions about what to do with the data must be made even faster in...
Scrum’s Role in Startup Companies
If you’re a startup, you’re up against organizations with experience and capital. Your ability to pivot quickly (i.e. agility) is your survival. The “lean startup” approach is essentially scrum for startups. Many startups go fast and hard, but lack discipline or...
Scaling Scrum Within An Organization
According to the 9th Annual State of Agile survey, the majority of organizations (66%) use scrum. And among agile projects, 85% use scrum. As organizations using scrum begin to mature, scaling beyond the pilot scrum team becomes a common challenge. Scaling agile...
Platinum Edge CEO Gives Agile Conference Keynote
Platinum Edge, LLC is excited to announce that the company’s Founder and CEO, Mark Layton, will be giving a keynote presentation at the Agile Gathering West Michigan conference in Grand Rapids, Michigan on September 16, 2015. “The Agile Gathering West Michigan event...
Using Scrum for Cybersecurity & Responding to Attacks
Cyber attacks are now the highest national security threat, according to the United States Director of National Intelligence. Technology that changes on a daily basis allows this type of attack to spread more rapidly than any other. This requires quick and sure...
How to Use Scrum for Relationships
Plan a wedding. Save for retirement. Find “the one” you want to be with. Teach your children how to set goals and make decisions. How does scrum make these life-altering events easier? Scrum and other common agile practices walk you through the process of: identifying...
Servant Leaders Build Extraordinary Teams
Leadership is naturally one of the largest components in the success of a project team (or any team for that matter). Sure, the actual project results the team produces are the primary measurement of success, but the journey taken by the team to get to that point has...
