Attached is a preliminary version of the Scrum article that I recently mentioned. This is a preliminary version, not as good as the final that was published...
Cutter IT Journal's November issue covers light methodologies. There is an article on Scrum Software Development (progress since it was first formalized)...
The Jul/Aug 2000 edition of IEEE Software Magazine focuses on Process Diversity with an excellent article on SCRUM: Linda Rising and Norman S. Janoff. "The...
We've encountered a new, useful type of backlog - master backlog. A product is driven by a product backlog, stating the features, facilities, content, and...
Besides working as Senior Consultant on various assignments, I'm also preparing a masters thesis. The work titel of my thesis is "Applying an iterative...
Ken, I would be interested in speaking with you about visiting with and presenting to our company. I'm somewhat familiar with scrum, I found the controlchaos...
I usually start Scrum implementation with daily Scrum meetings ... providing some visibility into what everyone's doing. We have held three days of daily...
As I've been implementing Scrum, I've encountered some weak engineering practices. These usually undercut the Scrum effort, because the engineering team is...
A number of organizations have expressed interest in getting more information regarding Scrum. This includes organizations that are just interested in Scrum,...
I've been discussing Scrum with a number of Internet startup's and have been surprised. Many of the problems that Scrum solves persist and the word on how...
You are absolutely right concerning backlog management. I sometimes use the word "silly" about the rules (like chickens and pigs), because these little rules...
Kent Beck and I have been doing some comparisons of XP and Scrum to see how each can benefit from the other. The first comparison is attached. Ken Schwaber...
Kent Beck asked, "What problems are solve by the Scrum planning process that aren't addressed by the Planning Game? I answered: Primarily the inputs: 1. There...
Nortel announced the acquisition of a Scrum user, CoreTek - a 120 person company in Wilmington, MA - for $1.43b today. When I first got involved with CoreTek,...
I was implementing Scrum at an company that both had current operations and was implementing a new web portal. To make things difficult, their production...
I'm curious what tools people are using to manage backlog, and if team members are reporting work remaining, and - if so - how. To what extent is this tool...
As the first step to building a simple Scrum tool, I've prototyped the use of manual cards for product backlog, sprint backlog, sprints, and releases. This...
I have been tasked with putting together an "implementation plan" for the various development groups within our organization. It will explain what Scrum is,...
Another presentation that goes more into the mechanics of Scrum is attached. We're recovering the Scrum library and the unedited paper(s), which will be up as...
... I notice the link to the piece that appeared to be an unedited white paper is now missing. I'd be interested in something of that nature to drop on ...
I was discussing Scrum recently and was asked what had happened to Scrum after the initial excitement in 1995-6. I responded : "Most of the literature and...
I've updated the Scrum Website. I wasn't satisfied with the clarity of how to get a Scrum project going and the actual iteration of Sprints. This seemed...
Is anyone familiar with Extreme Programming? I'm trying to pull together an interaction mapping so we can see how they mutually support each other. Ken...
Hi, The Scrum site www.controlchaos.com has been significantly updated to support self-instruction. However, we still get a lot of questions that I feel are...
