Doug, Thanks. Yes, I guess this is it! Since I run Excel on MacOS X and there is no MS Access Mac version, I gues I am out of luck (unless I want to invest...
Thanks Ken. This really helps. Intuitively, the virtual teams I am helping are showing the same level of productivity that you report. However, I find that...
We've been examining the terms/vocabulary in Scrum pretty carefully the last few months and I wanted to ask the group about the term "Product". It's widely...
Scrum came from building software products for sale. Hence, product. However, I've found that all projects, even marketing campaigns, result in deliverables,...
... work. ... Great article Ken. For the last 4 years I've been working in an environment and a culture where conflict is obsessively avoided . When...
I am using SCRUM and Agile to support IT Operations and the Management of Release Software and would be very interested in hearing from anyone who is in a...
Over the past four years at PatientKeeper we have implemented "Real Time Scrum" which is in effect, an endless Scrum. It is an useful for IT management as...
Jeff: That is impressive! We are moving in similar ways, but given the focus on keeping our users working we began putting everything in a single repository....
... what to do when conflict occurs. To date, we've all been willing to take the benefits without anticipating this cost. Crystal has two priorities :...
Thank you Jeff, what a story. That was most interesting to read. I do however wonder how the members of the sprint teams feel? Peer pressure must be extremely...
Peer pressure is, of course, part of the process as is ego and pride. It has been my experience the personal issues are kept in check with the formation of a...
I was just sent the link for an online interview about agile development. The interview was done last month, it got posted yesterday. You don't have to...
... Everything ... be ... the ... Fascinating ideas Jeff. This is essentially the context in which we use UML diagrams. UML is used to temporarily describe...
Hi Victor, can you explain a bit more in which way you use the UML diagrams in flux way? I will be faced with the fact that I will need to architect a whole...
Sure Boris, but if your customer wants you to architect/design the entire app upfront I cannot be of any help. What I mean is that we never sit down and design...
I'd like to know how people deal with the following situation: In the middle of a sprint your customer finds a bug in the version that is distributed and of...
another question (starting a separate thread for this one). Do people have stabilization/perf sprints? What if releasing the software iteratively is not an...
My reaction in this case somewhat depends on our expectations going into the sprint. For example, I am working with a team now with a medium-sized java code...
Depending on the nature of the project and the team, I have used "Stabilization Sprints" in the past. I've found these handy in these situations: a) a team...
We got to a point where we leave a certain amount of time available in the sprint to handle problems. (BTW a problem here is defined as anything that holds up...
Is there a difference between refactoring and stabilization? ... Mike Dwyer Program Manager - Information Technology One Research Drive Suite 301 Westboro, MA...
Yes, they are completely different. Refactoring means changing the underlying structure of the code without changing its behavior. This means a refactoring...
Yes I believe there is a difference. Stabilising is making something work reliably. Refracturing is keeping the same functionality but making the design ...
A good way to make this type of work happen during the sprint is to do it first. This is part of why I like doing test-driven development. If a team runs out...
... I would love to be in such situations that I would have had software development teams who had this kind of engineering practice in the past - wow. I am...
... What experience any of you have in implementing this to teams who are not used to do so? My issue is most of the time to get an awareness for the...
... What experience any of you have in implementing this to teams who are not used to do so? My issue is most of the time to get an awareness for the...
To my mind there is really only one question: Can the bug be addressed without affecting the Sprint deliverables? If the answer is, "No", then you have two...
We faced this issue many times when we began using scrum and we chose to solve it by creating a scrum team that focuses primarily on customer support issues,...
