Hi, I've just read "Exploiting Chaos: Cashing in on the Realities of Software Development" by Dave Olson. In his book he proposes a "splinter department". This...
... Jonas: I am familiar with the book. I read it in the mid-90s. Scrum uses a more reengineered approach, a Case Team, in Hammer's terminology. A Case Team,...
Thanks for your answer! It seems more reasonable to handle it (experiments/prototypes) within the team. And if people run away all the time, from the team, to...
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Feb 5, 2002 1:50 am
I'd say so if the technology is so whacked, bleeding edge, or untested that someone needs to first evaluate it. Wireless used to fit into that category, and in...
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Feb 5, 2002 3:21 am
I'd say there is no more and no less need for such a group than in a non-scrum environment. I can see how scrum might effect how such a "splinter group" might...
I've found that there are occasions when you may want to break away from the team. For example, more risk averse organizations may not ever put experimental...
Interesting. Now we really have the full spectrum: 1) integrated (within the Scrum team) 2) loosely coupled but same team (sabbatical) 3) splinter team For...
... I can offer one more option. 3M has it's famous 15% rule. This rule says that anyone can charge up to 15% of their time to a 'shush fund' and use it to...
Very interesting. Relating this back to Scrum a bit, this would mean that the task was assigned on the Product Backlog -- because all the planned work needs...
I love 3M's 15% idea. It's a win-win for everyone! -- Paul ... __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE Valentine eCards...
Mike, I don't think I explained the 15% rule well enough. People are specifically NOT working on Backlog in their 15% time. They are working on their own...
How do you manage this when times get rough? For instance in the end of a sprint when you realise that the group won't be able to fulfil its commitment - do...
The trick is that the the use of the 15% rule must be encouraged across the organization. This is sort of built-in organizational Slack (see Tom DeMarco's...
For the sake of continuity, I've cobbled together some of the threads of this e-mail because I think that Mary and I have been saying similar things about the...
The important thing about new product development at 3M is that the 'champion' of a new product develops a passion about that product, and inspires passion in...
... Mary: Thanks for the clarification. One of the promises that we make in Scrum is focus and commitment of every resources in delivering software according...
... Paul, Sorry I didn't get the same idea after Mary's clarification: Isn't the sabbatical outside the team and the 15%-exploratory inside the team as Mary ...
When people go home from work, they coach their kids sports or volunteer at church or train for triathlons or engage in other passions. We certainly don't...
I've dealt with this two ways in the past: 1) allowing teams to take every Friday afternoon for use in pursuing any company they want *except* work on...
I like your idea of Friday afternoon slack time. On the other hand, as you noted, not everyone has something they want to pursue during such time. That's why...
You just took a good idea and made it a bad one. I really don't like this arm-twisting idea that every Friday you will work on something outside of your ...
Personally, I've always let people work the hours they want unless some big wig tells me I can't allow that. Many of the companies I've worked with-especially...
You're right-there can be problems with telling individuals on a team that the Friday afternoon "should" or "must" be spent off the project. I've never had a...
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With Mary’s subsequent clarification, I agree that the difference is significant. The way I’ve treated the sabbatical in the past is pretty much as...
I think Mike's just touched on one of the major issues. All the good ideas we have been tossing around (and they _are_ all good) depend heavily on the culture...
Hi all, I'm going to write a paper about product-lines (for a course called product-line architecture). So I thought of writing about how product-lins are...
Jonas, You might want to check out the following page, titled 'Lean Design', on my web site: http://www.poppendieck.com/design.htm A good article to check out...
Jonas, We had extensive experience with product lines in agile development using SCRUM at IDX. A core issus is release strategy. Several products are often...
Jonas, Jeff: Our experience is similar. We hold a "Scrum of Scrums" weekly meeting with all the development team leaders/architects (in those applications that...
