Does anyone have recommendations of readings to help deal with more challenging interpersonal issues on Scrum teams? Specifically, take an example of a...
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Doug Shimp
dougshimp
Sep 3, 2004 5:36 pm
Does this sound like you developer? http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?CowboyCoder _________________________________ Douglas Shimp Senior Consultant ...
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Deb
debhart9
Sep 3, 2004 6:51 pm
I've not followed this thread from the beginning, but one thing ... It's not one or the other but *both*: - The Product Owner decides the priorities - The team...
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Ron Jeffries
RonaldEJeffries
Sep 4, 2004 12:20 am
... I'd follow Kent Beck's three-step process: 1. Explain to the developer the impact of what he does on the team. (In this case, that the team does not meet...
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Mike Dwyer
protraveler1
Sep 4, 2004 1:01 am
Interesting. Are you assigning roles to the teams and then looking for role specialists to fill those roles? Or are you identifying roles and making sure the...
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Mike Dwyer
protraveler1
Sep 4, 2004 1:05 am
Ron: Somewhere in the dark access beneath my balding pate, a few grey cells fired off to remind me of a piece of software lore about firing your best people so...
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Mike Dwyer
protraveler1
Sep 4, 2004 1:10 am
Software Samurai are another challenge. They often are brought in to clean up Dodge City. It's not bad work, but you have to like remote care starters if you...
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Mike Dwyer
protraveler1
Sep 4, 2004 1:17 am
Thr r 2 mny vwls in ths convrsasn 4 ths 2B teknkl in nahtur. Michael F. Dwyer Mike.Dwyer1@... 978 683 3439 ... From: Deb [mailto:deborah@...] ...
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Michael Spayd
mkspayd
Sep 4, 2004 4:17 pm
Dear George: You have already received a lot of good responses to your question. I hope this one is complementary to the others. Star performers can be very...
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Ron Jeffries
RonaldEJeffries
Sep 4, 2004 7:39 pm
... Very nicely put, Michael. Ron Jeffries www.XProgramming.com The practices are not the knowing: they are a path to the knowing....
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glgeorgeschlitz
Sep 4, 2004 8:00 pm
Great post/advice....much appreciated! ... question. I ... to ... than ... Jordan ... big ... being ... than ... WILLING ... everything...
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Joseph Pelrine
josephpelrine
Sep 5, 2004 1:52 pm
http://www.comtrolchaos.com is online with a new look. Congrats! Cheers -- Joseph Pelrine [ | ] MetaProg GmbH Email: jpelrine@... Web:...
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Ron Jeffries
RonaldEJeffries
Sep 5, 2004 2:45 pm
... Well, not really ... Ron Jeffries www.XProgramming.com My advice is to do it by the book, get good at the practices, then do as you will. Many people want...
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Mike Cohn
mikewcohn
Sep 5, 2004 3:41 pm
No, but www.controlchaos.com is online. We'll have to wait longer for coMtrolchaos. --Mike Cohn Author of User Stories Applied for Agile Software Development ...
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Joseph Pelrine
josephpelrine
Sep 5, 2004 5:43 pm
... OK, I give up - maybe Italian should be the language for Scrum.... CHeers -- Joseph Pelrine [ | ] MetaProg GmbH Email: jpelrine@... Web:...
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Marco Abis
capotribu
Sep 5, 2004 6:12 pm
... I would vote this! :-) Marco Abis http://agilemovement.it - Italian Agile Movement http://www.agilityspi.com - Agility SPI :: Software Process Improvement...
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Edmund Schweppe
ed_schweppe
Sep 5, 2004 6:33 pm
... Yeah, what Mike said. Obviously, the new & improved Scrum website is controlchaos.com. Now, if it had been a bunch of Unixheads starting flame wars on ...
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Victor Szalvay
danube_tech
Sep 5, 2004 8:16 pm
I'm not sure if this is still a relevant topic, but I read something today that made me think of this thread. If people are still pursuing the idea of creating...
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Kurt Heiz
kurtheiz
Sep 5, 2004 11:05 pm
Even though you have self-organizing teams, surely you should still take the individual skills of the team members into account? If certain work on the Sprint...
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Victor Szalvay
danube_tech
Sep 5, 2004 11:38 pm
... I would not recommend this approach. First, you're interfering in the team's self-organization effort by re-shuffling the team to "steer" them to a...
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Kurt Heiz
kurtheiz
Sep 6, 2004 12:47 am
So, in terms of not weighting the teams, do you suggest we split the BAs, Systems Analysts, Developers and testers into two even teams as possible? ... What...
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Ron Jeffries
RonaldEJeffries
Sep 6, 2004 1:50 am
... Remind me again why you need two teams? ... The Agile answer is to leave it up to the team. I'm interested in your thoughts though. Will use cases make the...
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Kurt Heiz
kurtheiz
Sep 6, 2004 2:31 am
... We have a group of 18 people and we aiming for the SCRUM recomendation of 6-9 people per team, hence the two teams. ... product go ... Will ... The use...
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Victor Szalvay
danube_tech
Sep 6, 2004 6:08 am
... the ... as ... I'm just saying I wouldn't split the teams by role, all BAs on one team, all coders on another, etc. This is called "pipelining" and ...
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Ken Schwaber
kschwaber
Sep 6, 2004 1:02 pm
People have been taken from cubicles and offices, where the interaction is minimal and all problems belong to the project manager. They are now asked to work...
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Mike Dwyer
protraveler1
Sep 6, 2004 2:17 pm
All of us interested in a PMI interface might find this worth reading. http://www.vtt.fi/rte/ce/yhteystiedot/laurisdocuments/obsoletetheory.pdf It is a...
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Mike Dwyer
protraveler1
Sep 6, 2004 2:35 pm
Doing a 30 day sprint on a product backlog for just the BA with only BA's involved creates a waterfall model that could look like this: Sprint1 BA's collect...
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Hubert Smits
hubert_g_smits
Sep 6, 2004 3:27 pm
Hi Mike, I know that you kno, but this model doesn't meet the Scrum criteria: every sprint hs to deliver working software, other artefacts are irrelevant....
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Mike Dwyer
protraveler1
Sep 6, 2004 3:33 pm
Agreed. But if you choose to move a customer through one specialty after another specialty, such as a BA to Design then what other choice do you have other...
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Mike Dwyer
protraveler1
Sep 6, 2004 3:39 pm
George: Faced with the similar problem, I stumbled into this solution. When it was my turn to answer the 'questions 3' What have I done - my answer was try to...
