Hi all, A company I know has 5 teams working on the same product. A large product of millions LLOC (first ``L`` is to emphasize Legacy-LOC). They have about 20...
But happy New Year! Even though I don't write much, I love reading the discussions in this group. Best, Peter -- Peter Stevens, Scrum Trainer & Coach blog:...
Hello, Just counting hours for the year to end, I thought of doing a retrospect of how a CSM course I did a year ago ,helped me. Hope you agree with some of...
We had an interesting Scrum Council meeting today. One of my favourite topics was raised ... how to handle partially completed stories. I have always been a...
I have used the large Post-It style easel pages along with regular Post-It style notes to support teams that cannot have their own dedicated team rooms....
Scrum has huge number of wins and is wildly successful. It is pretty much de-facto Agile standard today. And deservedly so. I know Scrum is software delivery...
Hi, Sometimes, I feel ScrumMaster role is redundant. Is it possible to have Scrum without ScrumMaster? 1. If developers has healthy communication, have an...
Years ago I created a straightforward "intro to Scrum" presentation and made it available in PowerPoint, Keynote (and sometimes Open Office) formats. The...
A famous saying : I'm really pissed off by what people are passing off as "agile" these days. You may have a red car, but that does not make it a Ferrari. ...
If think there was a saying in the days of the Nasa, something to the effect that couldn't be an astronautics program without an astronaut. Can in point, I...
An interesting real-world challenge We're forming a Scrum team to work on feature development for an online journal (things like embedded video, etc). Our...
Greetings to fellow Scrum Masters I have 2 scrum teams in US and multiple scrum teams in Europe. Apparently, it becomes difficult to keep everyone in sync. I...
Hello, we are rewriting an application originally made in php with anything else, we have alredy evaluated to refactor the actual application but for many...
In some organization assigning team members in multiple teams is unavoidable. Let's say the organization is willing to take all the risk having team members on...
Hello fellow agilists: Some of my thorniest problems have been HR policies, especially annual performance reviews where individuals are recognized and awarded....
Hi all. I'm involved in an organization which is claiming to do scrum. It has some very bright and self motivated individuals in it, some of them are really...
I encourage all members to keep this group free of advertising. It is not appropriate to list your books, marketing URL's, upcoming classes, and other...
We manage between 6 and 10 scrum teams (some Kanban teams switching back and forth between Scrum and Kanban included in that number) and have been organized...
Hi Ged, I've put my comments in-line below. ... Would you agree that Scrum defines that circles, but all of the work ... I think that that's an excellent...
I think for an organization where "traditional methods" of software development are deep rooted, FDD will be a better choice to begin their agile journey as...
Hi Ged, Interesting question! My understanding of that article is that is describes a number of situations where companies went through a marketly different...
Hello Ged, Even though the term "complex projects" would deserve to be defined first, I just wanted to be nice and inclusive in my previous email by saying...
Recent posts on this board contain fundamental misconceptions about Scrum's definitions from people who haven't bothered to read Ken's books or listen to...
How do u ensure maximum utilization of tester in Scrum Team. e.g. If there is a Scrum team of 9 people and Sprint is of 3 weeks, what will tester do for first...
... Hello Adail, I am not saying that FDD is not good...The only thing I am saying is that it has become rare to find a lot of developers/experts with FDD ...
Hi, everyone. I manage a small team of software developers within a much larger institution. I'm new to this mailing list, and fairly new to scrum. I've been...
My personal impressions (through industry reports, contacts, experience) is that agile development methods (ex. Scrum) and lean development methods (such as...
