Picky, picky, picky! I was, of course, alluding to the possibility of working in a distributed environment, with activities taking place in international time,...
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Roy Morien
roymorien@...
Aug 1, 2010 7:05 am
Yeah, someone also said 'The sun never sets on the British Empire ... because God doesn't trust Englishmen in the dark'. Regards, Roy Morien To:...
In a message dated 7/31/2010 9:55:58 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, roymorien@... writes: I see such interface prototypes as almost being an 'on screen'...
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Roy Morien
roymorien@...
Aug 1, 2010 7:51 am
I'm with you all the way on this one, Pete. Let me recount a story about this situation. I wanted to be put on the list of system providors for a government...
I've been down that road many times, Roy. What surprises me is that even now, it still happens fairly often. I've mentioned before that my best clients are...
... In my experience a distributed team has less time to coordinate than a co-located team. For example, my company is distributed between the Northeast US and...
Hello, Michael. On Saturday, July 31, 2010, at 11:13:00 PM, you ... Do you imagine, even for a moment, that a major purpose of scrum.org is NOT to make money?...
Hello, Michael. On Sunday, August 1, 2010, at 12:31:19 AM, you ... The most important part is "what will you actually do in a given situation?" No written...
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Roy Morien
roymorien@...
Aug 1, 2010 1:34 pm
Frankly, I think this whole stream of conversation, which has generated more network traffic than any other topic, is rather irrelevant and adds nothing to the...
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Michael Sync
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Aug 1, 2010 1:57 pm
... does not seem to have an end in sight, and which is not convincing anyone of the opposite point of view very much. Okay, Roy. I will stop here. :) Hi Ron, ...
At first, we enforced the rigid structure with our teams. Then the team members complained that they weren't getting vital information they needed, so they...
I find there are two dominant anti-patterns with the daily stand-up (and lots of little variations.) First, folks aren't talking at other times so they want...
... Very good point Adam. I also find that the need for having detailed problem solving discussion is due to the lack of availability and collaboration of the...
Ravi, Scrum does not say that you do no documentation. Scrum says you should have no more documentation than you need to have. It goes a little further to...
Scrum does not require documentation. But you project and/or product might. Dan Rawsthorne, PhD, CST Senior Trainer/Coach, CollabNet drawsthorne@...,...
wow, I thought I was the only one who had *actually* experienced the bus factor. I had an essential guy get hit by a jeep. The good news is that he was fine...
Rumor has it that a project manager last year asked a colleague to get to work, as he had fever and stuff. But your story is significantly more interesting. ...
I had a Product Owner once who was in a serious car accident. He was out for over a month, and working part time for a few months after coming back to work. ...
Just a quick note to let you know that I have taken the position of Account Executive with TapeTrack TapeTrack is a cross platform tape management framework...
... the daily stand-up is tedious: "Yesterday Bob and I worked on the thing... Today we're >working on the other thing right here (on the board.) No...
An old trick I read somewhere was that when the team is giving their reports - dont look at them , look down, look away, look at something else Make THEM talk...
On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 1:26 PM, BOONE Nadya ... 1) Don't show up. Tell them that something came up, and you are sorry you missed the stand-up. Ask how it went....
... I have done this before too :) An alternative is to simply draw people's attention to what is happening, this can often be enough to help break a habit. ...
"From the Agile viewpoint, what we have here is a fundamental violation of the Scrum principle that the software must be done by a cross-functional team: a...
I'm confused by your email. Your two "If a team..." paragraphs seem to agree with the quoted paragraph. Then you posit that the quoted paragraph is contrary to...
... From my various interactions with Ron I think that he intended for the statement to be troubling in its implications. Is it also true? Seems to me that it...
