With the time going on, the burndown chart in different sprint doesn't work as I expected. Scrum Dailymeeting works fine, Team members enjoy this activity,...
Oh, it's a hard task. Larry, my idea is you should try to get people away from e-version backlogs, which is well structured, also when printed, in a nice...
... Larry, the team did the task breakdown and estimation, is that not so? If they're working on tasks that are not part of that task breakdown, but are needed...
Yes, the tasks are breakdown by the team in beginning, but not fit to the reality with time going on. ... -- True software development embraces consistent...
... Are you using physical cards on the wall? If so, have some spare cards handy and people can fill them out on the spot. It's not really surprising that...
I use white paper to list the tasks like excel file (every task has one row), can we gain better effort to use Story Card instead ? It seems my team is not...
Larry, ... I worked with a team that did what George has suggested. The team had recently formed and the code base they worked on contained a lot of bugs (also...
Larry, I advise switching to using Task Cards within the Sprint. It's very easy to tear up an obsolete card or write a new one. During the standup, each...
Hello! As you may know, I am organizing a 3-day Agile Project Management / ScrumMaster Certification training course in Beijing. The dates are confirmed for...
How's your team managing their progress? The commitment in sprint planning is made based on the possible tasks and estimates, which may change and go wrong,...
Hi all, I attended a discussion and I tried to introduce Agile Software Development. However, I was soon being asked about what to do with "Fixed Time, Fixed...
Just to let everyone know: this course is now confirmed. It is scheduled for Feb. 18-20, 2007 in Beijing and will be held at the Lido Hotel. The price is now...
... ah, the mythical fixed time, fixed budget, fixed scope project. :-) Actually, of these three items, fixed scope is the tricky one. "Embrace change"...
FYI: Some people translate the scrum-checklist (infoq) into Chinese, and it seems it will be published as well, then it will be cheaper to keep one rgs/larry ...
Dear members We are a french software company providing innovativ services on Internet and mobile handsets. We have introduced Scrum in most of our projects...
First, Happy New Year to everyone! As New year's wish, i would like to see the first Scrum gathering in China to be held in 2008. There is definitely much work...
Happy new year, i have no experience to organize this kind of things, but I am quite interesting to participate, though I may have no chance to travel before...
I would be interested in helping, although since I am normally in Canada, I'm not sure what I can do! I would love to attend as well, if it is in the second...
I think this is a good idea. But I don't where we plan to have this first Scrum gathering. If it's going to be Shanghai, then I can help on making it happened....
It is a good idea. It is good to meet people in person. However, we have to think about what we will do in this gathering and then we can know how we will...
Me neither. Though, that makes it more interesting:-) I would propose Autumn time, since lots of preparation would be needed, and Autumn is a good season to...
... Good idea. Count me in. I'm in Hangzhou, which is close to Shanghai ;-), but I'm open to other venues. Perhaps we can start with a product backlog of...
Hi, This would be an interesting event. Shall we begin with a vote on location, time (Quarter or Month?)... and in the meantime collect topics of interests? ...
Maybe Autumn is too far away, as agile, it shall be quick ;-), will it be interesting to keep it as half year's activity ? if goes well, then one could keep in...
I got 12 people for the projects, and as scrum, it shall be 2 scrum team normally, then are there any good practices to handle it ? It shall keep one Product...
Larry, In the spirit of Scrum, what might work best? And how often will the "upper" organization inspect and adapt concerning "is this working?" ... It's been...
... team ... Do you mean how to create 2 teams? At least, there are 2 alternatives. One is to split by themselves, and the other is to split by you or others,...
Dear members. I had a document in the file part of the mailing list that describe how we want to manage offshore developement in a collaborativ perspectiv....
