My experience is that if you reduce the workload, people gold-plate the work or slow the rate to meet the deadline. Consider increasing the quality of the...
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Cook Linda
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Apr 1, 2004 2:37 pm
I have a recent experience with a team who was very conservative in their sprint committment. One contributing factor may be that they have seen other teams...
cross posted from AM list... Seems to me that if they are interested in XP and DSDM, what they REALLY want is Scrum, they just don't know it yet! Any of our ...
... I find that when I get to work at my own pace for a while, then I start to feel like I have no real deadline, and as Peopleware taught us, the team without...
My daughter, Carey, works for Forrester and is doing a report on Open Source. She's looking for information about doing development for it now, as well the...
Dear Friends, in case you want to come to the Scrum Gathering and/or to the Scrum Master Certification and you do not have booked you hotel room. Do it NOW! On...
Hey all: The company I work for is implementing a SCRUM process for our development teams, and so far so good! I've worked with SCRUM before, but I've also...
Sounds like it would work for me, but why aren't the analysis and artifact construction teaks part of the backlog so that they can be prioritized with the...
... Which approach? Using Scrum? Or using Scrum plus a bunch of artifacts from other methods? Ron Jeffries www.XProgramming.com Computers are useless. They can...
... Ah. Yes and no. I use Scrum-style planning along with practices from XP. (We call that XP.) I've seen many projects using XP, or Scrum, with a few random...
Hi Michael-- I have experimented before with exactly what you describe. In introducing Scrum to a couple of different organizations I couldn't get them to ...
... So, basically "Gather Requirements on Feature X" be a backlog item to be prioritized? That priority is implicit - engineering work cannot be done on a...
Anyone interested, I find developers to be the most fearful of incremental development (without admitting). "You mean I have to revisit my code? I thought I...
Excellent, Mike. For us, its going to take some time to "sprint" everything. Although - for us, having 2-week requirements gathering might be a bit much. 1...
I have successfully used: --cards --a wiki --rows in Excel --TestTrack (a defect tracker, with each story/task entered as a record) My preference is for cards...
Michael, I find the time features are found to be necessary always seems to come after you've developed something. You're lucky if otherwise is true for you. I...
Yes, "Analyze XXX" is a backlog item. One wouldn't do it unless XXX had a high enough priority to do it, right? In a system where we think of 50 use cases up...
Michael-- For the most part you really want to do all that analysis work as part of the sprint. Keep in mind that requirements are like inventory and we don't ...
... Isn't that why Scrum ships software every month, and XP and Crystal even more often? Ron Jeffries www.XProgramming.com Anyone can make the simple...
I've used it before (and *adore* it), but some folks also want ... Basic ... Hi Michael I have had absolutely no problem using excel and find that it works vey...
... Whenever possible, I like to use corkboards or whiteboards. I'm considering using a projector and a dedicated PC on my next project for things that don't...
In a message dated 4/6/2004 5:47:42 AM Mountain Daylight Time, ... Whenever possible, I like to use corkboards or whiteboards. I'm considering using a...
An additional interesting approach I read on the XP group from Josh Kerievsky is to use an overhead projector and transparencies. You can write on the...
... then annotating it could be useful. I have done it and found it useful. Then I happened to dream of an ExcelWhiteboard(TM), that is a Excel with a ...
