Hi all, I just felt that I had to share this amazing article with you: http://www.fastcompany.com/online/28/ge.html It is about General Electric plant in...
Last year I was managing a project before the Scrum book was published. I understood from the web sites the concept of a sprint and Scrum meetings, but not...
Hi all, I've just read Jim Highsmith's article in the Software Development magazine. It is really great and talks quite much about Scrum (a case study from IDX...
Papers accepted at XP2002 Conference are now online at: www.xp2002.org There is still room to register to the conference! See you in Alghero next week Michele...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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....
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...
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 ...
It's a uComics Postcard! Linda Rising (risingl@...) has sent you a In the Bleachers postcard from uComics.com, the best comics site in the universe. To see...
Hi Scrum user, 1. Do you know who invented Scrum? From some books, Scrum was invented jointly by Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland. Some others say, it is...
I just realized that the Tollhouse(tm) cookie recipe demonstrates both defined an empirical processes: Defined: "BAKE for 9 to 11 minutes" Empirical: "or until...
The AgileAlliance has a place to list all agile usergroups at http://www.agilealliance.com/userGroups (case sensitive, remember the capital G). If you want...
I was sent this today and it makes me think of what things would have been like if Superman had used a heavyweight process, rather than the clearly agile...
If you are part of an agile usergroup and want to post it at the agilealliance website, go to http://www.agilealliance.com/userGroups/index Ken Schwaber...
Hi all, Now I finally got the Scrum book back (a friend of mine has borrowed it for ages). The first thing I noticed was that there was a nice section about...
... Apologize if you receive this announcement more than once. ... CALL for PARTICIPATION XP2002 - http://www.xp2002.org/ 3rd Int.l Conference on XP and Agile...
Keith Ray asked me this question in the XP mailing list: What makes XBreed different from Scrum and different from XP? Here is my response, - Mike ... Keith: ...
Major push on agile articles lately. A buch more have been posted at www.informIT.com (part of Pearson Publishing ... Prentice Hall, etc.) under Software...
Based on the recent comments in ComputerWorld and elsewhere I think we have moved forward on the multistage acceptance process with respect to agile ...
My team is in the processs of our first sprint, and I am getting inidated with requests for documentation. I, traditionally, am also used to spending weeks and...
Hi Scrum users, I would like to know if you are currently using Scrum S/W development process in your organization. If yes, could you please let me know: 1....
You can now sign up for membership in the AgileAlliance, a non profit organization that whose purpose is the furthering of agile processes. Check it out at...
Jonas, We had extensive experience with product lines in agile development using SCRUM at IDX. A core issus is release strategy. Several products are often...
Hi, I've just read "Exploiting Chaos: Cashing in on the Realities of Software Development" by Dave Olson. In his book he proposes a "splinter department". This...
