There are a couple of irksome facets here (1) When a new team is being formed, and there are new comers joining the team who are freshers both to Scrum and...
Praveen, You have highlighted very valid points. Please see below my inline reply. (1) When a new team is being formed, and there are new comers joining the...
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Scrum or no scrum, do you take in account time & resources spent on new entry to bring them to speed. I believe you did it in your old model and just did not...
A well balanced Scrum team is a blend of freshers and experienced people. From freshers will get Fresh ideas !?! Also in high velocity scrum team is the best...
We do have clearly defined phases in a traditional software development cycle; viz. code lockdown, localization etc. How do we map these phases in an agile...
Hello Jaimon: Allow me to ask you a question first [guidelines for some options which you can try are below these questions]: Suppose you had a competitor who...
Hi, Martin Fowler will be in Chennai on the 12th of Feb (Tuesday). He'll be giving a talk on Agile Software Development. The talk is free to attend. If you are...
Hi Suresh, ... No idea, but he is in Bangalore over the weekend. You can catch him at DevCamp - http://devcamp.in/ - on the 9th of Feb (Saturday). DevCamp is...
... Just heard that he will also be at BarCamp Pune 4 - http://barcamp.org/BarCampPune4 - which (surprise!) is also free. This event is on the 16th of Feb. So...
It would be nice if someone can record it audio and or video. I could put it on torrent for next few weeks. So many people can listen to the same. Vijay. ... ...
EVENTS Martin Fowler in Chennai. 12 February, 2008, 6pm. Free to attend (wait list in effect). http://mashmadras.pbwiki.com/Registration Agile NCR 2008. 8...
(resend - with the formatting that was omitted in previous send) EVENTS * Martin Fowler in Chennai. 12 February, 2008, 6pm. Free to attend (wait list in...
There was an interesting discussion recently in another group on "self organization in India context". It would be interesting to hear from the experience of...
Hi, Sanjiv Augustine will be giving a talk in Chennai on the 22nd of Feb (Friday). The talk is free to attend, but seats are limited to just 35 this time. If...
The talk is titled "Small is beautiful - The evolution of Agile to complex, multi-project environments" """ Over the past years, successful practitioners have...
Agile mandates "strong trust" between the customer team and the development team. In an offshore outsourcing environment, this becomes even more important as...
Couple of more suggestions: * Have a split team if you can with members at both ends * Some face to face meetings to bring in familiarity at personal level. I...
Vikram, I do agree with you. We are also carrying out what you mentioned and in addition to this * We are involving customers in Release Planning, Iteration ...
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Feb 21, 2008 1:07 pm
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... This is an interesting topics, given that open source movement itself has not taken off very well in india. If you remember the analysis at that time...
Hi, Is SCRUM used for projects other than s/w projects. Lets say manufacturing projects ? With Best Regards, Nitin Bal L&T Infotech-Vashi Tel.: +91-22-67952422...
The agile movement has adopted many of the principles of the lean manufacturing principles pioneered by Toyota in car manufacturing. Scrum is a lean software...
In fact we are using it for every activity of the company be it Recruitment or Project Transition or anything else other than just software development. And we...
Jaimon: Most managers in India believe "If you don't sit on top and use a stick, no one will work". Most employees in India unfortunately also probably believe...
I would be cautious in using scrum for non-software projects. It is designed for software development based on the lean manufacturing principles which has been...
Thanks Pete for encouragement but it really benefitted us and so was a reward in itself. The most recent case has been recruiting some specific skill people...
Regarding SCRUM in non-IT: I came to know that NASA adopted SCRUM for their regular research projects and the sprint cycle was as small as of one day. I don't...