What approach did you take to describe the benefits of SCRUM to clients / business units who do not have a technical background? Please list any analogies you thought were useful. Finally, how did you address the concerns that the Waterfall camp had? ...
Anyone out there using Fogbugz and Scrum together? We use Fogbugz extensively, and I'm looking for ideas from anyone who may be using it as part of Scrum. I found these two items, but they are archived and unvailable for further discussion. I'm specifically interested in ideas for mapping Scrum concepts into Fogbugz. Some things are fa...
We're usually 1-4 developers / art directors / copywriters on each project at my firm, what methodology would you recommend use to use? Agile? XP? Scrum? Something else? (I know they are all variations of essentially the same concept, yes) ...
I'm looking to get some Scrum training for a dev team in Germany? So far I've found these guys: agile42. Does anyone have any experience with them or have recommendations from good experiences with other trainers in Germany? ...
At the last CITCON Europe we had a great session on the topic "Is Scrum Evil?" Reading James Shore's blog post on "The Decline and Fall of Agile" brought this session back to mind. These are serious doubts being raised by people deep deep into agile. For people on the outside the judgements can be even more harsh, as in this blog post "...
is it possible to convert their method to scrum in a small concern ...
Looking for Scrum related articles ...
So where I work we approach our projects using Scrum. Recently we have all been bumping heads and interrupting each others work too frequently because of competing role interests (developers, QA, product owners, scrum masters, business analysts...) In order to fix this we want to implement a sprint "cadence" where blocks of time are de...
If you go to the class and pay for it, will you ever not get certified. If thats the case... What exactly does it certify? That you have 2k, and can show up to a place for 2 days? ...
There are several ways to do burn down charts in Scrum. Some people suggest using the story points of unfinished stories left as your burn down charts in Scrum. Pro: Only finished stories lower the chart Contra: Chart doesn't move down in the beginning and then rapidly falls off Others suggest to use the number of tasks left Pro: Ch...
RUP in the dialogue with Scrum There is a relation between Agile and RUP. Actually I though that Agile development was a type of RUP. In the article from IBM above you can see that they are fitting the model to RUP. Does someone has any practical explanation of the relation between these three interesting concepts. ...
Do you think it may be OK for a person to have more than one role in a software development company that wants to use SCRUM? E.g. is it ok/possible if a person is SCRUM master and team member Product owner and team member SCRUM master and product owner Which combinations do you think are possible? Do you work in such a team? What sh...
I'm fairly well read in the benefits and processes of Scrum. I get the ideas on the backlog, burndown charts, iterations, using user stories, and other various concepts of the Scrum "framework". With that said... I work for a web development firm that manages multiple projects at one time, with six team members that make up the "product...
My company has recently started using Scrum; we've done 2 sprints. We're still learning, but we've definitely exposed and fixed some problems in our development process already. So in general I think it has been good for us. In reading many of the internet musings about Scrum from evangelists, cynics and everyone in between, three commo...
We are starting to use a Scrum process for development. We have a nice stack of user stories now . I'm wondering though, once a user story is complete, tested and deployed do you do anything else with it? We're using little index cards right now, I'd think it would be fine to just toss them in the trash can. If you keep them, what do yo...
If you had to choose one advantage that Scrum gives over a waterfall process, what would it be? ...
We're using Scrum on our current project and we're very happy using our agile board and cards but reporting, burndown charts etc. are somewhat cumbersome to maintain. So, we're looking for good agile software to use instead. I'm keeping requirements deliberately vague but does anyone have any recommendations? The software would need t...
I just finished listening to a very eye-opening podcast on Hanselminutes about the definition of "Done". So my question to everyone is "When do you consider a piece of software to be "Done"? Is it when it's fully unit tested? Is it when it's completely documented? What measurement do you use in your development process to determine Donen...
I have a challenge I need some input on. I am currently recruiting programmers for a new development department. I am looking for people that are brilliant at their work – so brilliant that they might “lack” some other things that I normally would require them to have (e.g. speaking Norwegian and (to be honest) – social skills in order...
The team I am working in has embraced scrum in a big way. I really like the idea of it, but find that we are constantly having to make compromises to fit with our development reality. This is making scrum less effective and causing other overheads. What I am asking is have people out there managed to work with pure scrum and does it pay...