(responding to Mike V) ... That doesn't seem right to me. I seem to remember he joined when Ken was comparing methodologies and reporting unfavourably on his...
Max, The description is missing the most critical piece of information necessary to determined if there is even anything wrong with this process: - Is everyone...
(responding to sunh11373) ... In general I favour "generalising specialists" over specialists in most if not all cases. We need somebody that is good as a QA...
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Nam Dao Xuan Thien
dxtnam@...
Dec 1, 2006 9:25 am
Dear ALL, Recently, when I work as a project manager, I did tracking project activities and member hours per unit time/day. I found that the productivity of...
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Nam Dao Xuan Thien
dxtnam@...
Dec 1, 2006 9:30 am
Dear ALL, Recently, when I work as a project manager, I did tracking project activities and member hours per unit time/day. I found that the productivity of...
(responding to Nam) ... The new book "Implementing Lean Software Development" is a good start for anyone interested in increasing productivity. It should get ...
... What were the measures you took and observations you made to determine that the team did not have "good productivity", and what would your definition of...
Hi, in my new company we develop software similar to the Scrum method. It works fine for quite a long time now. But... Our problem is to manage and prioritise...
Max, Nice post, I understand your pain. Some questions/comments. - It seems that your focus is on controlling the future. How can we get better estimates,...
... Here's a question. In a scrum team is there a difference between responsibility, accountability, and skills? I could see having team responsibility,...
Hello, Steve "stakeholders/customers" - it isn't the only important thing. In my post I was rather talking about what developers feel by task implementation....
I have heard a rising number of complaints from people trying to learn how to use Scrum that this egroup seems geared toward discussions between experts, and...
Another short thought. For those of you who are ScrumMasters, is your job to remove impediments and to stop predators from detracting the team from its ...
Hello, I've found this paper: http://www.crisp.se/henrik.kniberg/ScrumAndXpFromTheTrenches.pdf I could help... the author talks about their experience after...
Hi Nam, I work also as project manager, perhaps my experience can help you. If you think the productivity of the team is not good talk to the team to see what...
... Tell us more about this "pressure", please. Who is providing it? How do they provide it? In a smoothly operating Agile project, pressure is not a very...
... My experience is that organizational cultures always resist change. Unless there is enough dissatisfaction or pain at the business or management levels,...
Ken, you know that everyone has the utmost respect for you. I know from training with you that you know that a sheepdog is better off giving up on some things...
... The issue is not the process, the issue is the extensive amount of dependencies. It has simply grown to a size which can't be managed anymore, neither by...
I'm sure you're right about the definition of SOX requirements and the separation of QA testing from development. I don't think people are hung up about the...
BTW For what its worth my post "Scrum in a Nutshell" is now up: http://www.notesfromatooluser.com/2006/11/scrum_in_a_nuts.html#more Cheers Mark ... Blog:...
Anonymous feedbacks are sometimes effective in that they sometimes get the teammembers to speak. But not always. What are the size of your teams? Who's being...
In my experience there are 3 factors that reduce the productivity of a development team: 1. They don¹t have clear direction as to what they should be building...
The one single statement I remember best from the Scrum Gathering is: "...well that's actually good, because it requires them to think for themselves." As a...
I'm not sure if it's worth addressing here, but do you think that something should be added regarding the need for a supportive, understanding and involved...
I¹m conflicted about this whole thing. I understand Ken¹s desire to keep the list useful for people new to Scrum. However, one of the things a new ...
... I too get a lot of mileage out of reading these discussions. I think it's a bit odd to promote a method that claims to be best used in concert with other...
