Do use cases have a place in scrum? My intuition is that if a user story is written correctly, that should be enough to drive discussion and collaboration,...
Oh LOL - I teach modules 1 and 2 of CSD myself and never thought about it :) The examples/projects of development in our CSD classes are really small games,...
Hi, The Scrum Community group (from the Scrum Gathering) is trying to enable better and more scrum community activities. We hope this new experiment will prove...
Dear friends, With the upcoming 10 year anniversary of the Agile Manifesto http://www.agilemanifesto.org and the upcoming 10 year anniversary of first Scrum...
I read an interesting statement in today's Wall Street Journal, "EBay’s system, which involved 25 million lines of inflexible code, soon became a liability....
Hello, I am new to Scrum methodology and software testing and I would like to know more about the measuring of the software testing process in Scrum. Can...
This Saturday, November 6th, Pillar is having a Hiring Open House. We are interviewing to hire experienced TDD Craftsman and Agile Business Analysts for...
Hi, We are starting to implement user stories. We have still a long way to go. However, the start is there. We build a complex financial/administrative...
I hope that someone will help clear this up for me. I see three terms being used all the time with Scrum: Story, Feature, and Task. What I am asking is do...
If we are doing a porting project I am not sure if it makes sense to create user stories which are focused on business value. Would this be considered more of...
I am starting a project to replatform and redesign my companies entire on line experience. I was planning to use User Stories to document each role internally...
I recently worked with an enterprise integration services team whose responsibility was to develop the SOA/ESB components bridging (other) large-scale...
From another thread, I thought this deserved a thread of it's own. My comments below. Charles ... I can't really agree or disagree with this, in part because...
Hi, I belong to a small group of a big company. We are doing awareness advocacy for agile methodologies and one project who was interested is asking if there...
Dear Friends - Many of you know about Innovation Games® - a set of serious games that companies like Cisco, SAP, Reed Elsevier, and Carfax are using to...
Hi, I'm writing an article on Bad Smells of the Sprint Backlog, and would appreciate anyone's feedback. Thanks in advance Here is part 1: Does your Scrum Team...
Ron Jeffries<http://xprogramming.com/index.php> and Chet Hendrickson<http://agileskillsnetwork.com/> are coming to Dallas, TX on November 8-12 to teach YOU...
Hi, I am struggling with velocity measurement for an onsite-offshore model. A user story is jointly owned by onsite as well as offshore team members and hence...
Hello, it's not the first time that I heard developers telling me that the "user story creation process" (envolving the user story and also the tasks) is very...
What: New England Agile Bazaar November meeting Topic: Scaling Scrum: Applying the Agile Scaling Model (ASM) Plus: New Agile 101 Courses! Speaker: Scott...
I have a simple question regarding what should be the correct Role in a story, maybe you can clarify my confusion. The case is the following: The Product Owner...
Hi Manoj, I agree with you. I also have strong CMMi background and I said in comparison to that. Agile is certainly not as heavy as CMMi on metrics side. What...
Creative Edge is a series of workshops, sponsored by the Scrum Alliance, designed to help trainers, coaches and advanced Scrum practitioners improve their...
Hello all, I'm new to user stories and I would like to run some examples and questions by the group. For my next project, I'm trying to get away from typical...
Join us for the first Agile Tour DC on October 22, 2010. This one day conference aims to serve agile practitioners in the DC area through the following 3...
Dear All, I face difficulties in convincing my management to follow agile methodology using scrum. To be more detail. For the past years our company follows a...
Hello, I hope you're all doing well. In our team, we have about 16 to 20 people. For a while we had separate, smaller teams, but we've lost some QA people and...
