Hear Chris Sims on the Agile Weekly Podcast

By Hillary Louise Johnson | Published: May 10, 2012
In Integrum Chris talks to Roy van de Water and Drew LeSeur of Integrum about running Agile Learning Labs as a transparent company with a radical compensation plan, and about writing The Elements of Scrum using scrum, and how our new book, Scrum: A Breathtakingly Brief and Agile Introduction is an iteration of our first […]
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Chris Sims is signing copies of The Elements of Scrum at the Atlanta Scrum Gathering on Tuesday

By Hillary Louise Johnson | Published: May 8, 2012
If you are at the 2012 Atlanta Scrum Gathering, you got a copy of The Elements of Scrum by Chris Sims and yours truly in your conference goody bag, as we are proud sponsors of this year’s event. If you’d like Chris to sign your copy, he’ll be doing so at 12:30 pm on Tuesday […]
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Introducing our new book…Scrum, a Breathtakingly Brief and Agile Introduction

By admin | Published: April 11, 2012
We published this little book very quietly last week, and without so much as a tweet it has already become the #2 bestselling kindle book on software project management, right behind our other book, The Elements of Scrum. The response to Elements has been tremendous over the past year, and a lot of people have […]
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Agile Learning Labs is having a book party! Come find out what agile publishing is all about

By admin | Published: August 17, 2011
Late last year, Agile Learning Labs began incubating a new venture, Dymaxicon, to explore the publishing space for agile-themed books, and beyond. This Saturday, August 20th, we’ll be celebrating the success of our first two titles, The Elements of Scrum by Chris Sims and Hillary Louise Johnson, and The Bad Mother, a novel by Nancy […]
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Agile Learning Labs is having a party

By Hillary Louise Johnson | Published: August 9, 2011
Come help us celebrate the launch of Dymaxicon – a new kind of publishing house brought to you by Agile Learning Labs. Saturday, August 20, 2011, 6 to 8 pm Internos Wine Bar 3240 Geary Street, San Francisco Raise a glass and toast a new, agile way of producing books, videos and media. Join Chris […]
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The Elements of Scrum: User Stories and Beyond

By Hillary Louise Johnson | Published: August 8, 2011
Chris is at Agile 2011 in Salt Lake City today, and part of prepping for his Tuesday session on Agile Requirements: User Stories and Beyond included reviewing the following chapter from The Elements of Scrum, by Chris Sims & Hillary Louise Johnson (c’est moi). Here is the text of that chapter in its entirety: User […]
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Video of “The Elements of Scrum” Book Release Party

By David Parker | Published: February 14, 2011
An extraordinary agilist and friend, Harold Shinsato, captured this video at the release party for our new book “The Elements of Scrum.” My favorite moment is when Hillary explains why they chose not to capitalize scrum and how agile is not a noun. Enjoy! The Elements of Scrum – Book Release Party from Harold Shinsato […]
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ScrumMaster vs scrum master: What do you think?

By Hillary Louise Johnson | Published: January 13, 2011
Chris and I just finished the first draft of our book, The Elements of Scrum, and will be publishing a “beta” paperback by February, just in time for Agile Open Northwest, of which we are a proud sponsor. One of the biggest remaining debates we’re having is over capitalization. After great deliberation, we’ve chosen not […]
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