... career ladder in companies that use Scrum? It's important to have a way to tie remuneration to work done... it's one of the satisfactions we earn from our...
... Scott Ambler's concept of a "Generalising Specialist" may be pertinent here; one's knowledge becomes both broader and deeper as time progresses, becoming...
I am currently in Ken's Scrummaster training and had an interesting insight. Ken asked that I post it, see if anybody else has done something like this and/or...
Thanks to everyone who replied about shorter iterations. If anything interesting comes of our experiment I'll report back. I'm still intrigued by the thought...
Hi Boris, I want to address a specific point about planning in Scrum that you make ... The Scrum book calls for estimating tasks in hours. (We actually use the...
Hi, Alan -- The process you describe is very interesting! Asking people to imagine forward and look back usually reveals gaps in the current plan/approach. I...
This weblog entry is a nice parrallel: http://martinfowler.com/bliki/StickyTimeline.html Feeling (satisfaction?) colors add an interesting perspective. I'm not...
... I remember a short article written by Jim Highsmith entitled "Release, Milestone and Iteration Planning" which described the need for all three of those...
I use four colors -- since a pack of index cards comes that way :-)! Red: anger, Blue: happiness, Green: challenge, Yellow: surprise You can "see" a lot about...
Wow! What is all this touchy feely stuff in the software community. I know I've been gone for 8 years, but I don't remember this level of attention to...
Daniel, ... is "a long time". We're like the primitive tribe whose counting system goes "1, 2, 3, many." A month is on the "many" side. The brain doesn't seem...
... Yes ... C3 ran one-week iterations for quite a while prior to one release. That's the longest time I've ever spent in that mode. I found it tiring and ...
Hal - The "feely" stuff has always been there (it's there in construction, too). Some of us don't pretend it's not - humans can't really "check their emotions...
Not Scrum at all, but in the same ball park, and I figured it might be of interest to some "As a commercial software program and development manager, I view...
Yes, yes, yes! I work for a software company and we reuse as much open-source as possible. On my last project, we needed a fast java to c# translator and we...
Hi, does anybody has a comparison table which states what financial benefits an agile development project has to a plan-driven project? I looking for something...
Ouch - this is a scary request In theory, a perfectly run sequential process should be less expensive than an perfectly run agile project, so don't go to the...
Great answer, and you got exactly my initial reaction, when I was asked this question, that I wanted to rephrase in my bad english. But on the other side, this...
... I looked for it on Google and at the cutter sight as well as Highsmith's site. Alas I could not find it. I can send you a copy of the email I received - I...
Lowering risk exposure is like taking out insurance. You just have to show him that this insurance is a good deal. If this argument does not work, ask the...
Ok, you can have a look at: http://www.favaro.net/publications/Extreme_Prog.pdf “The most vital quality a soldier can possess is self-confidence” (George...
... I think that if money people are trying to assess what approach programmers should take to their work, they have been asked the wrong question. Ron...
... I would think that Agile as Risk Management would appeal to that person. "A sequential project costs $1M to $4M. The same Agile project costs $1.5M to...
How does Quality Assurance fit into Agile development and scrum? I don't mean testing, but independent quality management including - audits, standards, toll...
And on top of that, how does agile/scrum play into a company's ability to be compliant with section 404 and 409 of Sarbanes Oxley? Are public companies...
