All I welcome all to this forum and I personaly thank Pete for his initiative on this to bring all people together to discuss, debate on Agile dev. To share my...
Hi everyone, We recently did a successful scrum implementation for one of our projects and after a dozen sprints or so, deployed a major release. The...
Selvan, let's say another client came to you tomorrow, saying "we'd like to try scrum". based on your lessons learned below, what are the 5 (or however many...
Hello Selvan: Transitioning to Agile is generally slow. Below assumes a "service industry" scenario. One of the mistakes you could do is converting whole...
I agree with Vikrama when he suggests creating a success story in one or two projects before going across to the whole organization. It also makes sense to do...
Clifford: Under no circumstance should a sprint be of infinite length and everything is time boxed even if you decide to repeat the time box. The part where...
Hi guys, You guys might already be aware of the issues concerned with DAILY SCRUM when your development teams are distributed in multiple Time zoned locations....
Hi, Where ever majority of team members are in same location, have a face-to-face Scrum and request other members to participate through polycom and make sure ...
Vikrama thanks for your comments. when we step into an organisation trying to sell agile based development highlighiting all benefits looks good to everyone ...
Hello Selvan: Thanks for your comments. This might go off topic - however, customer collaboration is one of the key challenges for sure. ... Why are they...
What I have noticed that most customers are afraid of "terminology" more than the process itself. So the moment you say "ISO", "CMMI", "Agile" or "Scrum" to...
Another area of annoyance to the customers that we have come across is the strict discipline of not accepting any changes once a sprint starts. They are so...
This can be dealt with , by setting expectations right at the begining ,either in the Statement of work , by clearly mandating and laying out the ground rules,...
Sharanya Vemu
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Jan 11, 2008 6:57 am
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First of all, I dont think this is Scrum probel. Scrum in any case allows any one to plan sprint only after a thorugh analysis and estimates. No one is...
"Implementing No Change Rules - seems to be a major areas of concern. All the Scrum practitioners I talk to, always have a problem with this [or with customers...
Implementing No Change in SCRUM process. I gree with Vikram, there no fullhearted effort in sprint planning which results lots of chaos even in Sprint. I have...
Yeah, I see this a lot as well. Client demands a change during the Sprint, team is forced to say yes. This makes client think "I can make changes anytime",...
... (using a wiki perhaps) a short article called "advice for clients about using Scrum / Do's and Don'ts", that says all the things we'd like to say to them...
scrum-india wiki... cool! is there anyone in the group with a burning passion on the topic below, who'd like to volunteer to set up the wiki and facilitate...
While tools like Wiki greatly enhance the project monitoring and tracking, they can never become a substitute for personal interaction. So even in distributed...
True, personal interaction cannot replace communicative tools. But just in case this joint scrum is not at all possible, there is a tool which seemed...
Scrum or otherwise, changes are difficult to handle and greatly impact project performance in terms of time, cost and quality. While providing the flexibility...
Hi, I recently completed the SCM course with Pete. My organization is just getting ready to provide SCRUM orientation to people. I have following query in my...
I have a number of large projects where I need to have multiple scrum teams. We are in a planning phase right now to see how we can implement the scrum of...
good summary jaimon. my only comments are (a) in my opinion, the scrum of scrums participant could be the scrummaster -- it's really up to the teams to decide...
Hello Nitin: Were you already using any continuous integration tool like SVN or Cruise Control? If yes, you could continue using it. You might also want to...
