All this angst over the future direction of scrum sounds as if scrum itself is need of a retrospective. What's worked well for folks that we should keep doing?...
Hal, I'm an interested in employment as an agile developer in the metropolitan New York City area. Where is your company located? I'm a UNIX, C++, PThreads,...
Common sense is your button, "Ideal is mine." Can I assume that we agree that 'ideal refers to a single truth model"? I am now at the point where I am having a...
I get a continuous stream of requests from recruiters for recommendations for CTO and VP of Engineering positions. Recently, I have been telling them it is a...
As to the us them issue. Chickens IMO self identify by not taking responsibility and committing to deliver or not engaging. I have never - repeat never - seen...
Ron has made me think hard about the term devolve. While it does reflect the notion of the "master" turning over the work to the minions. It does not capture...
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Hi Deborah, Right First Time is a TQM saying, so in the context of TQM it is a good thing. It looks like marketing people have grabbed hold of this phrase and...
Simplicity is good. As Einstein said, concepts should be as simple as possible and no simpler. He had to wade through a lot of complexity to get to e=mc^2...
Sorry to be jumping in on this conversation a little late... Just now getting a chance to wade through all of the ScrumDevelopment emails. What do you consider...
... Without trying to be an asshole, but would that not very much depend on the industry and product? I will agree there are some desirable human traits, but...
... effective POs"? I usually share this article with new Product Owners I work with...those that have fit this description have been the best ones in my...
Although the article was interested (provoking) in some aspects, I also have some skepticism, particularly about the inter-team Scrum meeting duration. It...
Ken: Is there anywhere we can order this personality? If so I would like a bulk order overnighted to me. Let's face it most Product Owners don't come that...
Add this information to the mix on Agile, xP, Scrum, project management, distributed teams, purity of purpose, and the fact that the sox will win the pennant...
... Thanks Jeff! I remember reviewing some of the early SCRUM patterns papers in the late 90's here in Chicago-land with Mike Beedle. And Mike was often...
Another way to make their work interesting is to require that it integrates and passes an integration test at least daily. For worldwide meetings, a really...
... My understanding is that there were 5 teams, of which 3 had members from the St. Petersburg office and that each team had separate scrum meetings. ... The...
... OpenSpace is to conferences as Scrum is to project management. It's a collaborative method to engage the passion of participants and generate a lot of...
When I was speaking of an "effective" PO, that qualifier wasn't meant to be limited to the context of the product team. Within the context of the team, the...
... That would be a scrum gathering worth attending. but i wonder ... ... could the difficult topics be addressed productively; ... how could the large group...
Is that the issue Ron - bigger, smaller, right, different, wrong? I come back to the fact that once we implement scrum it ends up being the team's and then the...
Hi: Many of you know of Net Objectives' streamzines - web-based powerpoint presentations with audio. We normally release one a month to our mailing list, but...
So we now have A, B, and C variants of Scrum to cover different situations...when do we stop coming up with new variants to cover a new situation. It seems...
... Not "the". Might be "an". ... If whatever people do is OK, why was Scrum ever written about? If Scrum and Agile and what has already been said about them...
Given the interest on this list in change (as a subject), I thought some might be interested in this design project which uses, though is not particularly...
Sorry, Scrum is not owned by Ken. In fact I think if you read his latest comments, he reminds you that *you* think he owns it. Scrum is something that 3 guys...
I used the waltz analogy a while ago, partially because I was looking and Tim Lister on the cover of Waltzing with Bears and partially because it is such a...
... These permissible things that people do with Scrum, XP, or Agile are not "improvements". These variations are simply adaptations to a particular context ...
