... I'm switching to this verbiage: - release: Every Friday, with a demo. - deploy: Every integration is deployable. Every day ends with a quick check that...
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Brad Appleton
bradapp1
Nov 1, 2004 2:11 pm
... I think we might subdivide that into (1) fear of our stuff (the software/product) and also (2) fear of themselves (their own organizational dysfunctions...
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Freya Watts
geoff5033
Nov 1, 2004 2:24 pm
Does anyone have any sure fire tips for getting "customers" (internal or external) on board with moving from traditional development methods to Scrum? I am...
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Steven Gordon
sfman2k
Nov 1, 2004 2:45 pm
Geoff, It sounds like it is you who are determining the requirements for each sprint. You might consider letting your customers vote on which requirements each...
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David Moskowitz
dbmoskowitz
Nov 1, 2004 3:25 pm
Maybe I've missed something... Can we assume that they (the customers and the organization) have bough in to the idea of "agile" (any agile process)? From...
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Freya Watts
geoff5033
Nov 1, 2004 4:09 pm
Thanks Steve Thanks for your comments and I like the idea of voting although somewhere along the line there is always an arbitrary decision - be it who gets...
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Ron Jeffries
RonaldEJeffries
Nov 1, 2004 4:11 pm
... Freya, some thoughts: First of all, what you're doing now isn't meeting these people's needs or wants. They want a date, and you're not giving it to them....
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Ron Jeffries
RonaldEJeffries
Nov 1, 2004 4:37 pm
... Hi Geoff. I called you Freya earlier, because, as you probably know, that's what your email address suggests. Sorry for the confusion. Ron Jeffries ...
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David A Barrett
barrettdab
Nov 1, 2004 7:32 pm
First of all, thank you for all the suggestions and replies. After our Scrum on Friday, I laid the situation out for the team. There was no doubt in their...
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Brad Appleton
bradapp1
Nov 1, 2004 7:50 pm
... You might take a look at some of the buy-in/consensus strategies in an article entitled "Agile Change Management: from First Principles to Best-Practices";...
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Freya Watts
geoff5033
Nov 1, 2004 8:35 pm
I seem to be making progress in convincing customers about the agile process and certainly developers. As this isn't being driven by the business, it's just...
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Ron Jeffries
RonaldEJeffries
Nov 1, 2004 9:19 pm
... What is it that you want the people you're convincing to do? What will be better about agile processes, for you, and for them? Ron Jeffries ...
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Gary F
gfyho
Nov 1, 2004 9:58 pm
... We did a sort of QFD-light when I was at DEC. (It was commonly called QFD internally, but consultants who had worked on QFD in Japan thought we had barely...
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Schiel James - SHS Ma...
JASchiel
Nov 2, 2004 2:19 am
One thought -- Many of your customers seem like they're still thinking in the traditional project planning mode (i.e., plan the whole schedule up front)....
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dancapper69
Nov 2, 2004 8:07 am
I'm working on a project wherein we'll change the existing V model to Agile. However we can't discard every existing process; Scrum seems suitable as a wrapper...
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Boris Gloger
borisgloger
Nov 2, 2004 8:46 am
Hi Dave, ... On Mon, 1 Nov 2004 14:32:09 -0500, David A Barrett ... [...] ... [...] thanks for quoting me and I would love to see your team working - obviously...
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Boris Gloger
borisgloger
Nov 2, 2004 12:12 pm
... use the matrix you have in the company currently - if you use SLOC or whatever than your company "awareness system" will only rely on those numbers. ... ...
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Phlip
phlipcpp
Nov 2, 2004 2:42 pm
... If you incrementally adopt, and if you get a practice (such as RefactorMercilessly) out of balance with its matching practices (such as TDD), you will...
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Arvind Sathyamoorthy
sarvindliba
Nov 2, 2004 9:07 pm
I work for an organization where we are starting to impletement scrum. We had a few of our developers go in for Scrum training and they came back with some...
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Gary F
gfyho
Nov 2, 2004 10:07 pm
... Did you really do XP before? You're describing the classic waterfall model here. Start by getting rid of these last assumptions. For one thing, if you're...
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Steven Gordon
sfman2k
Nov 3, 2004 1:40 am
I concur with Gary. You were not doing XP. In fact, virtually any implementation of XP would also be an implementation of Scrum. Your QA people need to pair...
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Freya Watts
geoff5033
Nov 3, 2004 1:01 pm
Thanks - it's one step at a time at the moment. Changing the mindset of others, like you say, is the key and I can only do that gradually so it will probably...
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David A Barrett
barrettdab
Nov 3, 2004 2:57 pm
... That's a darned good question. Where IS the customer, and is he fully engaged? This project has two business units involved. One is a product department,...
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Hubert Smits
hubert_g_smits
Nov 3, 2004 5:01 pm
Fully agree with the previous speakers Arvind. I think you're trying to fit existing roles in a new name, and that is not what XP or Scrum is about. My view on...
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mike.dwyer1@...
protraveler1
Nov 3, 2004 9:57 pm
It sounds like you are going to be both the 'project guy' and the 'product owner guy'. It also sounds like their has been a lot of trust build up between you...
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Steven Gordon
sfman2k
Nov 3, 2004 10:23 pm
The next Phoenix eXtreme Programming User Group meeting will be held on Monday, November 8th. This is an informal gathering of Phoenix area developers, project...
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Arvind Sathyamoorthy
sarvindliba
Nov 4, 2004 1:24 am
Ok I suppose I need to give more information here. This is what we were doing The BA's were involved in writing story cards and then working with developers...
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scrummasterbob
Nov 4, 2004 9:38 am
After completing a successful Scrum based development project our team had a bit of an introspective about how and why Scrum worked and out of this came some...
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Boris Gloger
borisgloger
Nov 4, 2004 10:53 am
Hello, I have a very bad feeling by reading this comment - I read all the time "planning";, "be better informed"; "better decisions"; "planning upfront" ; "we...
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Hubert Smits
hubert_g_smits
Nov 4, 2004 11:35 am
Fully agree with Boris here, and couldn't have worded it better. The idea of a BA being a sprint ahead and QA being 1 sprint behind does not make sense to me....
