I came across this URL recently: http://www.fastwater.com/Company/Research/study/. It is from a company that is looking to study companies using agile ...
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Mike Cohn
mikewcohn
May 2, 2002 3:12 am
I spent an hour today participating in a meeting to discuss prioritization of backlog for a sprint starting on Friday and then another hour or two organizing...
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Ken Schwaber
ken.schwaber@...
May 2, 2002 6:20 pm
We had a web-based tool, ScrumOnline, but it got pretty clunky. I've had best success with customized XL. Ken ... From: Mike Cohn...
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mpoppendieck
May 3, 2002 2:39 am
I tracked my backlog with Excel. I had enough columns so that I could put in elements of interest to various parties, for example, date entered into backlog,...
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Ulrich Winter
ulrichwinter
May 3, 2002 6:43 am
XL? Do you mean MS Excel, or something else? Has anybody used request tracking tools like bugzilla for handling backlog? The way issuezilla is used (for...
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Jonas Bengtsson
caelumse
May 3, 2002 10:39 am
Hi, While reading the book "The Knowledge-Creating Company" by Nonaka and Takeuchi I got quite puzzled about what they call a middle-up-down management style....
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Ken Schwaber
ken.schwaber@...
May 3, 2002 12:09 pm
Jeff Sutherland has successfully used CVS. I've attached an example that Stephane Besson (stephane.besson@...) sent to me of Sprint backlog using...
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Alice.O'Hanlon@...
Alice.O'Hanlon@...
May 3, 2002 12:13 pm
Dearest Scumdevelopers...... Our team is already working on answering these questions for our environment, but it would be nice to hear input from folks that...
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Mike Cohn
mikewcohn
May 3, 2002 5:11 pm
Alice— ... Absolutely! Scrum is an infinitely viable approach to development. Because of the way Scrum puts direct emphasis on the prioritization of work it...
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Mike Beedle
beedlem
May 3, 2002 5:57 pm
We also use Excel in most cases, but we have used other tools as well: * formatted wikis (this works nicely, specially if the place where you hold Scrum...
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Jonas Bengtsson
caelumse
May 3, 2002 7:04 pm
Mike, ... I've also thought about that. I've also considered doing one using Zope. However, I have one little problem: I have not yet participated in a Scrum ...
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Mike Cohn
mikewcohn
May 3, 2002 7:16 pm
One of the perpetual questions I get when introducing Scrum is "can't we just email you our new estimates and skip these daily meetings?" That attitude...
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Mike Cohn
mikewcohn
May 3, 2002 8:13 pm
I guess I would have considered Scrum to be a process that puts emphasis on the individual but does so by putting a team framework in place to support that...
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mpoppendieck
May 3, 2002 8:14 pm
Jonas, I have not read the book you reference, so I am not sure why they call 3M a bottom-up organization. But I worked there for 20 years, ending up as a...
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Jonas Bengtsson
caelumse
May 3, 2002 9:34 pm
Mike, It seems like we're on the same page. Perhaps one could say that there is an emphasis on both team and individual - the team commits to the work and is ...
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Ken Schwaber
ken.schwaber@...
May 3, 2002 9:47 pm
The ScrumMaster is also known as the IT project manager, and is responsible for the productivity of the team, ensuring that it has the best possible and most...
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Jonas Bengtsson
caelumse
May 3, 2002 9:58 pm
Mary, Thanks for clearing that out! I guessed that teams play a large part even there. But as I understand it they state that the employees are quite ...
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Jonas Bengtsson
caelumse
May 3, 2002 10:21 pm
Ken, The reason why I asked about self-directing teams was the following sentences by Mike Beedle: "SCRUMs can also be held by self-directed teams, in that...
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Mike Cohn
mikewcohn
May 3, 2002 11:13 pm
Yes, I think we're on the same page on this. I guess I didn't consider the work to be routine, just not knowledge-creating. I'm thinking of a project I'm...
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Ken Schwaber
ken.schwaber@...
May 3, 2002 11:40 pm
Not in my experience. However, I've either been on critical projects or projects where the organization was changing its culture. Both required dedicated...
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Mike Beedle
beedlem
May 4, 2002 7:21 pm
... Jonas, Ken: It is possible to have self-directed teams with no Scrum Master. But I have only done that twice in 6 years. Basically, Ken hits the nail on...
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Linda Rising
risingl2000
May 5, 2002 10:10 pm
Hi Guys, All the teams at AG were self-directed but that just means that the team adopted the various management roles. The ScrumMaster was just another role...
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andycirillo
acirillo@...
May 12, 2002 5:06 pm
We use bugzilla for backlog tracking at Spirian and it has worked pretty well. I started out with Excel, but switched when we felt we needed something more...
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Alice.O'Hanlon@...
Alice.O'Hanlon@...
May 13, 2002 12:35 am
Good day all - pardon my lack of knowledge and newness to this whole SCRUM business - Is this software free, is it widely used, does it work well? How have...
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Mike Cohn
mikewcohn
May 13, 2002 1:24 am
Hi Alice- Scrum isn't a piece of software that you can buy or download; rather, it is a process for developing software. (Actually it's a process for ...
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Mike Cohn
mikewcohn
May 13, 2002 1:27 am
Whoops. I also goof on the xbreed site, it is www.xbreed.net <http://www.xbreed.net/> , not .com. Sorry. Hopefully I didn't send anyone to some...
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Mike Beedle
beedlem
May 13, 2002 10:51 am
Mike: Yes, unfortunately, someone purposely bought xbreed.com with the sole purpose of selling it back to me (?). I refused to buy it from them for 5 digit...
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Jonas Bengtsson
caelumse
May 13, 2002 6:27 pm
Hi, The relation between Scrum and XP is being/about_to_be discussed at the XP list. It would be really interesting to see some feedback from this group there....
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Ken Schwaber
ken.schwaber@...
May 13, 2002 6:55 pm
I just posted some information on my experiences with this: Scrum and Extreme Programming have been used in combination at a number of customers over the last...
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Lowell Lindstrom
omlowell
May 13, 2002 9:26 pm
I can't seem to find a substantial difference between the XP Planning Game and Scrum. There are subtle differences, but if the team is adapting their work as...
