When Ken and I were working with the first Scrums in various companies it was essential to freeze the backlog for 30 days to get work done. We had no way to...
Jeff-- How does your Dynamic Scrum handle the following situation: The team starts on a sprint (2 or 4 weeks, it won't matter). One of the sprint backlog item...
Clarke, I'll assume that the IT service you talk about support the products the financial firm sells or services in some way. Instead of focusing on the IT...
... Ron: Well, I could have chosen to stay quiet, or to not publish or elaborate my idea, and to let the world be, without Balanced Agility. But now I am glad...
... Steven: Interesting, that makes six different groups since this discussion started that are doing something similar. Just as I thought, this had to be a...
... I like the name "Balance Agility with Scrum". And I hope you understand now why a number of us don't like the name "Balanced Agility". Ron Jeffries ...
... H, Although I'm a Scrum newbie, I'll try to answer this and more experience people can correct me if I'm way off base: I'm assuming that this is one of...
Here's a trivial little tip that helps avoid abnormally terminating a sprint (or having bad feelings about what did/didn't get done in a sprint): I used to ask...
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Stan Rifkin
sr@...
Mar 1, 2004 7:50 pm
Here is a link to an explanation that is more notional (less concrete) than some of the responses so far. - Stan http://www2.cio.com/analyst/report2268.html...
Thanks to all who have shared their thoughts on this. I really appreciate your input. Regards, Harprit ... Here's a trivial little tip that helps avoid ... ...
thanks Stan. I've just been reading about this kinda stuff. Thoughtworks have a an example of "Total Economic Impact" by the forrester crowd (that's the...
... I don't think this is a PM problem; this is a problem with the mechanics of refactoring. Spending four days "ripping out the guts" of something is very...
It's nice for us to think that we can theoretically make all changes in small pieces but that isn't always practical. If that were the case it would be simple...
... It's not appropriate to say that we have to do something when we choose to do it. It would seem likely that any rewrite can be done piecemeal. And...
... Speaking for myself, I find it hard to interrupt thinking through a complex issue. There is an intense focus involved in wrapping my head around a complex ...
... I am familiar with the problem. I've found that working in smaller bites goes better for me, and I suspect that learning to work in smaller bites would be...
The Scrum Gathering Europe will take place between April 20th and April 25th, 2004 in beautiful Vienna, Austria. http://gathering.scrumalliance.org Scrum...
... Dear Friends, I would like to take the opportunity to invite (Spam ;-) you again to our Scrum Gathering 2004 in Vienna. The Gathering will be held in a ...
Out of curiosity, does anyone's sprint length vary due to the length of a contract? i.e. If you ran a 3 month contract, would you stick with 3 sprints, or use...
... I operated a 10-week contract this way: 3x2 weeks, then 4x1 week. As we got closer to the end, we increased the rate of delivery and feedback so that the...
My $0.02 on the new Schwaber book: Our organization recently implemented Scrum, and although the Beedle/Schwaber book was great to get us off the ground on...
I couldn't have phrased my intentions for the book better. I'm glad they were realized and appreciate your feedback. If you or others have comments on the...
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Carmen Zannier
czannier@...
Mar 8, 2004 7:10 pm
Call for Participation 2nd Canadian Agile Network Workshop Held in conjunction with SEKE 2004 ============= June 20-21, 2004 ============= The Banff Centre,...
I'm wondering what extra columns people have added to their Excel Backlog spreadsheets ... and the ones they've tried to keep out of them. It doesn't seem...
[I posted something similar elsewhere but perhaps this is of interest to this group as well?] Knowledge Management, Knowledge Creation, Rules of Knowledge,...
We have been running SCRUM for about 5 months know. We have been successful at delivering functionality in each of the Sprints we have put together. The ...
