... You and David are in company with the third edition of The New Elizabethan Reference Dictionary - "an up-to-date vocabulary of the language as spoken and...
A six week sprint is long enough that the team starts to require documentation, additional models, additional communication vehicles to remind them of their...
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Eric Chamberlain
Eric.Chamberlain@...
Nov 3, 2003 6:00 pm
Well, our backlog management is not really the issue. It is more the collective burn-down. We were giving our burn-downs in the daily Scrum meeting and then...
If the tool is getting in the way for whatever silly reason. Drop the tool. I find it scary how people are obsessing on Excel. The tool is not the approach,...
You need to send the new manager to the certified scrummaster class so that he will find out how to behave like a ScrumMaster. In the meantime, bring his...
FYI: The new STQE magazine came in the mail and I just read it this morning. There's a new article in it by Ken called "What's Different about Agile ...
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Cook Linda
linda.cook@...
Nov 5, 2003 3:49 pm
Unfortunately you must subscribe to read the article! ... From: Mike Cohn [mailto:mike@...] Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2003 9:41 AM To:...
... Murray: I was told those same definitions by Ed Berard circa 1989. Even back then Ed was in disbelief of how abused the word "methodology" was within the...
I am not sure if you are aware, but this is a god digest of the yahoo group emails. http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.programming.scrum.general/first=1/last=50 ...
The new "Software Development" magazine came a couple of days ago. As always, Scott Ambler has an interesting column. I often agree with his points but I don't...
... I think Scott's assessment is based on a perception of the range of 'Disciplines' (RUP terminology) that are explicitly addressed by the agile methodology...
There's been a few posts about Scrum tools recently, here and on the scrumalliance group. For my sins I'm a big fan of Wiki's, and I wanted to try and make one...
Nice. We used a wiki to track our backlogs (didn't have the Excel plugin) and were wanting a more formal way of formating and tracking the data rather than...
This looks like a really good start. I like having the built-in burndown charts. I can using this. -mike ... From: mintywalker [mailto:mintywalker@...] ...
I took a brief look -- very cool! My only comment is: typically product backlog is made of stories, and then stories are allocated to Sprints and broken down...
Mike: Thanks for posting this. 1) Agile is descriptive not prescriptive You have to remember that Scott Ambler is the guy that wrote, not one, but TWO patterns...
(responding to Mike B) I think I need to say a few words in defence of Scott here, because I'm trying to address the same problems and, as someone just...
... Paul: Sorry, my sentence should be parsed like: "PRESCRIPTIVE process and/or organizational patterns" i.e. All "process and organizational patterns" that...
I send an email to Scott that he seemed to be unaware that Scrum is a full methodology and perhaps is unaware of it entirely other than anecdotally. Perhaps...
... I spoke to Scott briefly at Smalltalk Solutions this summer, and he didn't really seem to know much about Scrum. Unfortunately, we didn't have enough time...
Ken: Be careful. That smacks as waaayyyy too dictatorial for my tastes. Plus, logistically, it would be relatively hard to enforce without getting all RIAA-ish...
Paul, When we meet and we get to know each other better, you will understand that I revert to sarcasm when I'm frustrated. When I first started working with ...
From: Ken Schwaber [mailto:ken.schwaber@...] Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 1:37 PM ... I wholeheartedly agree, but that is a problem that plagues...
(responding to Mike) ... Ah. In that case we don't disagree. ... Right. Those are the sort of rules I'm trying to capture. ... So you'd prefer descriptive as...
Ken, Can you please provide the references that detail the full software development methodology behind Scrum? I've studied and used Scrum for years,...
(responding to Joseph) ... I'm a dedicated mix-and-matcher. What I'm trying to do is devise a way of keeping the score, and then amass a load of 'cheat' rules...
Mark: You probably missed it, but we have already *openly* admitted, several times, for the lack of good documentation of the Scrum engineering practices. Most...
... Paul: Yes I prefer descriptive, and I think you capture that well with the concept of "reasonable options". However, I would prefer not to use the word...
The full methodology is a project management methodology that is provided to every certified ScrumMaster. It does't explicitly detail any specific engineering...
... Yes, I've seen the admissions just recently. :-) ... Based on the RUP disciplines (Business Modeling, Requirements, Analysis and Design, Implementation,...
