Methods & Tools is a free e-newsletter for software developers, testers and project managers. Winter 2008 issue's content: * Fingers in the Air: a Gentle...
Great to know it is going to happen! I hope I can take part (collides with the XP2009 submission deadline). Why not to spam this mailing list with such an...
... I just wanted to follow the existing convention. The monthly agile dinners in Helsinki don't seem to be announced here but only in the wiki. I guess...
... At least I wouldn't mind that. I would probably even participate those dinners in Helsinki once in a while if reminders were sent here. Cheers, .peke...
I have arranged several dinners in Helsinki and, frankly, forgotten to announce them here. I will do so in the future! By the way, the next Helsinki dinner is...
This looks interesting. It's basically waterfall, but they have some funky pay-by-incremental-delivery kind of setup, from a quick look at this brochure --...
... Tuomo, you're a bit late to get to call it "first" :-) http://wiki.agilefinland.com/?cmd=view&p=AgileDinnerOulu20080116 But thanks for organizing this,...
Hi Everyone, Our team have been agile (Scrum) for more than half a year now and I must say we are quite happy with the outcome we have had. I would really ...
Hi there, ... We have loads of teams in our company and most of them vary between 3 to 8 members. ... We have trained our project managers to be ScrumMasters....
Hi Petri, On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 12:43 PM, Petri Heiramo ... I'm curious, why is the developer-as-scrum-master not something desirable? I understand the...
... Could you share some of your outcomes? Always fun to hear success stories. ... Six people excluding SM and PO. ... The role of project manager does not...
... I have been in this kind of role (Lead developer / Scrum Master) multiple times. It is not an ideal solution. However, in those cases I have usually been...
Thank you Petri, Lasse and Ari for your response. Regarding my question on PM/Scrum master: We have a peculiar situation as we are moving from a conventional...
Hi Ari, I must admit we are pretty new to scrum (piloting). Most of our issues are there with regard to adapting Scrum together with our "good-old" processes. ...
Hi all, The organization I'm working in has taken the decision to take in use an "agile project management tool" (sic!) called VersionOne. I had a quick look...
I definitely agree with you, and I'm already on the war path against this. But the chances of having success are really really low, that's why I'd like to talk...
Just small addition to Markus' post: I have also seen (lead) developer & scrum master often getting questions about "how to" and in after a while having...
... I've had a similar experience as a member of the team, except our lead developer/Scrum Master tended to focus more on the developer role than the Scrum...
... If you want to * micromanage the doings of everyone in the team * use a very unintuitive and poor web GUI for everything * get very unreadable reports for...
... I work for an online gaming company (10 Scrum teams in product development) and we don't have business analysts but certainly our POs are experts of...
Hi Lasse (and others), ... There have been some very excellent answers, but there are also other aspects to the issue. As a company doing much of our work in...