Hi, ... This is what I am having problems with. Our systems are made up of three distinct technology platforms, and when hiring staff we have gone for quality...
Hi Phil, Before I offer any further suggestions it would be good to know a little more context. Are the team co-located in a single shared workspace? (If not,...
Hi Duvan Besides scrumdevelopment, you should try http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laasd laasd stand for latin america agile software delevomplent. Oddly enough, ...
Sinior barros, Si assist. Mark A Saffell Heber Ferraz-Leite <heber_ferrazleite@...> wrote: Well ... what kind of help are you looking for exactly? If you...
I have to agree with Robin here. What you are experiencing is sadly all to common. Scrum is not a prescriptive method, but an empirical one. See my thoughts...
Artur, I have not found a way with google spreadsheets to copy or move records from one sheet to another (in the same spreadsheet) or from one spreadsheet to...
Hi Dave, in Google spreadsheet copy&paste works fine so you can try, if you want to copy whole sheet there should be an option "duplicate sheet" (or similar I...
... If you search the archive of this list you will find a multitude of answers. The one I like to give most is: 1.) Commitment 2.) Batch sizes (amount of work...
From my experience, sprint lenght consistency is important because it allows there to be estimation set on certain products in the backlog based on their...
Hello Everyone, I have been a member for a while and never got a chance to really participate. I have a project which is composed of one BA, one java ...
Hi Randy, I wrote a blog entry about "Sprint Zero <http://scrum-breakfast.blogspot.com/2008/01/sprint-zero.html>," part of a series on Getting Started ...
Another aspect is the external view of your project: it is much easier to make outside stakeholders shut up for a while if you give them a clear picture of...
Hi Randy, The two week period makes sense. Here are a few suggestions. 1. Make sure that the developer, QA tester, UA tester and BA all share a work space....
... Hello Randy. ... Personally I am someone that does _not) advocate 2 week (or 10 day) sprints for new and inexperienced teams which have not worked in an ...
To clarify my point on retrospectives "I recommend 30-60 minutes for a small team", I meant for the interim retrospectives. For the end-of-cycle retrospective...
Hi, I had the pleasure to run a class together with Bob Schatz in Mechelen this week. We had a full house, a lot of fun and a lot of very good questions. One...
What is the number one rule of business? 1. The customer is always right? Right? If the customer is always right, then we need to find a way to make them...
Well Boris, it sounds good, but of course (like everything in Scrum) it is context dependent. If you are building some bespoke software for a small company,...
In that case Mark, I have some customers for you :-> They believe that rich, complex web applications are trivial, that you should just be able to intuit what...
... feel free :) but -- read Kens Book again. He talked about these six roles in his first book. We simply forgot. Did not understand or did not wanted to hear...
I have been using ScrumWorks [http://www.scrumworks.com/] from quite some time and mostly happy with it. They have a free version and a paid version of the...
Pooja, If your team is co-located, then my suggestion is to skip software tools altogether and go for a physical Scrumboard. If your team is dispersed, then...
... Is not - and this is the confusion we had and have. You already mentioned the distinction: - Customer - End-User so it is obviously there is a need to make...
Hi Pooja, I get this quite often. My first question is always: What are the problems you're having that you'd like the tool to solve? ... Pete Deemer ...
Hi Pooja! It is not exactly freeware, but you can try a free account on our tool called Banana Scrum http://www.bananascrum.com/ . Best regards, Andy...
