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Scrum Inc.
Company blog · scruminc.combusinesscareer
Scrum Inc. is the company blog at scruminc.com, writing about business and career. Since 2015, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-20, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Commenters link scruminc.com's definition-of-ready and definition-of-done pages to explain Scrum terms, and a Scrum@Scale case study paper. None of the comments judge the writing itself.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Founded by Dr. Jeff Sutherland, co-creator of Scrum. We partner with enterprises on agile transformation, Scrum@Scale, and training that delivers real business results.
What Hacker News says?
> 3) Scrum story points are supposed to reflect end user benefits. Scrum.org states[0] A Story Point is a relative unit of measure, decided upon and used by individual Scrum teams, to provide relative estimates of effort for completing requirements. [0]: https://www.scrum.org/resources/blog/why-do-we-use-story-poi... According to Jeff Sutherland himself[1], story points are based on team effort and not end-user bene…
Comment linking /story-points-why-are-they-better-than/
on “Scrum is fragile, not Agile”Submitted Why Less Communication Is Better as a story · 2 points
HN discussionMy understanding of Scrum is that requirement elicitation must happen before the sprint. Otherwise the story does not meet the Definition of Ready and the team should reject it. https://www.scruminc.com/definition-of-ready/
Comment linking /definition-of-ready/
on “Requirements volatility is the core problem of software engineering”Submitted Time Tracking is Anti-Scrum: What do you do when you need it for billing? (2012) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThis is why I like the Scrum idea of having an official "definition of done". It is valuable to have a shared understanding about it. https://www.scruminc.com/definition-of-done/
Comment linking /definition-of-done/
on “Software architects should be involved in earliest system engineering activities”Submitted Scrum at Scale. What are your thoughts? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionBefore the Agile manifesto, before Scrum/XP/Lean became popular, I had my own way of delivering software which basically was: meet with users/stakeholders, talk about what they need, build a first version in 2 to 4 weeks, release, test, adjust, repeat. For me it makes so much sense agile that I don't get why some devs don't understand the beauty and simplicity of it. If you want to know more about the why of the sta…
Comment linking /origins-daily-standup/
on “Fixing Scrum (2019)”Nice strawman. Now read this paper on how Saab Aerospace used Scrum@Scale. https://www.scruminc.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Release-...
Comment linking /wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Release-version_Owning-the-Sky-with-Agile.pdf
on “Agile Cult”