This thread is the community conversation thread for a proposal to extend Scrum, the Integration Scrum. Read the proposed extension here ...
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Charles Bradley - Scr...
charles_brad...
Apr 10, 2012 8:26 pm
Avi, ... evaluation... ... with SA is that it doesn't publish a solid and clear ... like the scrum guide. Interesting observations, and my suspicion is that...
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RonJeffries
ronaldejeffries
Apr 10, 2012 9:01 pm
Hi Charles, ... I hope (and intend to cause) the SA not to have a "strict definition". It is frankly silly to set up a strict definition for a system that is...
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Charles Bradley - Scr...
charles_brad...
Apr 10, 2012 9:53 pm
That's a good argument, Ron. I could argue both sides of this one, and I don't really have a strong reason to like one over the other, so I don't really care...
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Adam Sroka
adamjaph
Apr 10, 2012 10:23 pm
On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 2:53 PM, Charles Bradley - Scrum Coach CSM PSM ... I'm not Ron, but if he meant something like: the behavior of frequently changing it...
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davidmstarr
Apr 10, 2012 10:54 pm
This thread is the community conversation thread for a proposal to extend Scrum, Planning Card Game. Read the proposed extension here ...
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RonJeffries
ronaldejeffries
Apr 10, 2012 11:11 pm
Hi Charles, ... If we consider the various Scrum Guides as a spotlight moving over the Scrum Terrain, some spots would be very well lighted, some less so. So...
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Laurent Bossavit
morendilfoo
Apr 10, 2012 11:51 pm
Hi there, The Extension makes a substantive claim in the domain of psychology, "humans in general tend to underestimate work when asked for an absolute value",...
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Mark Levison
marklevison
Apr 11, 2012 4:19 am
David - I'm deeply troubled by all these proposed extensions to Scrum. It feels like we're going down the path of RUP. I.E. here is a list of great practices,...
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RonJeffries
ronaldejeffries
Apr 11, 2012 1:34 pm
David, all ... ... It would be nice if this proposal at least gave a nod to the inventor of this technique, whom I believe to be James Grenning. I also wonder...
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RonJeffries
ronaldejeffries
Apr 11, 2012 1:47 pm
Hello, Mark, ... I strongly object to the "Scrum Extensions" effort, but for somewhat different reasons. My reasons include: The Extensions notion is clearly...
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Joshua Partogi
thejavafreak
Apr 11, 2012 1:58 pm
Hi Ron, I don't think that is the intention. I think the purpose is to give Scrum newbies basic idea how to do stuffs that is not covered in Scrum Guide. For ...
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Laurent Bossavit
morendilfoo
Apr 11, 2012 2:25 pm
Hi Ron, ... When I read the proposed Extension I made what was for me an obvious comparison: http://guide.agilealliance.org/guide/poker.html ...
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David Starr
davidmstarr
Apr 11, 2012 2:32 pm
I have no doubt this extension's author will be taking your feedback into account. That is the point of having this discussion, after all. Kate, jump in here. ...
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woynam
Apr 11, 2012 2:42 pm
Amen. Some people, typically "managers", have a genetic hearing defect, and don't hear the words "extension" or "optional". I too saw this with RUP. Doing...
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RonJeffries
ronaldejeffries
Apr 11, 2012 3:30 pm
Hi Laurent, ... I welcome your descriptions. My concern with the "Extension" notion is that it blesses some ideas and implicitly damns others, from some...
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gregc
graycole
Apr 11, 2012 5:07 pm
Gary, There are a certainly a number of product management focused lists on linkedin that are active. - Agile Product Management CoP - 280 Group: Product...
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Adrian Howard
ajh65537
Apr 11, 2012 7:28 pm
Hi Sean, ... In the situations where I do this the organisation (in the long term) values the rate of planned work. Velocity isn't used as a tool to mark...
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Sean Corfield
seancorfield
Apr 11, 2012 8:32 pm
... Yes, thanx for the clarification. -- Sean A Corfield -- (904) 302-SEAN An Architect's View -- http://corfield.org/ World Singles, LLC. --...
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Adrian Howard
ajh65537
Apr 11, 2012 8:49 pm
... Wandering off topic slightly - but how is "Sustainable Pace" a more politically correct phrase? Isn't it just more.... correct? I don't care about the...
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Dave Rooney
daverooneyca
Apr 11, 2012 9:20 pm
... IIRC, there was some grumbling about the 40-hour part since people in many countries work 35-37 hours per week. I believe France is one of them. ;) ...
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RonJeffries
ronaldejeffries
Apr 11, 2012 9:25 pm
Hi Dave, ... People definitely do this. I seriously question whether it works. There's good evidence that even manual things deteriorate seriously after 6-8...
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Adam Sroka
adamjaph
Apr 11, 2012 9:37 pm
... Except that is not "wiggle room" in the definition of sustainable pace. Instead, what you are saying is that you occasionally find it useful to violate the...
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David Starr
davidmstarr
Apr 11, 2012 10:03 pm
Just throwing this out on this list: The author of this particular proposal is having some technical difficulties with her yahoo account. She's working on...
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JackM
jmilunsky
Apr 12, 2012 12:56 am
Hopefully this helps.... My first comment has to do with how the bugs were discovered in the first place. Generally bugs found in sprint get fixed in sprint...
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George Dinwiddie
gdinwiddie
Apr 12, 2012 1:15 am
Laurent, ... One issue with "Planning Poker" is that Mike Cohn, for reasons unknown to me, has trademarked the phrase. ...
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Gary Brown
gb70840
Apr 12, 2012 1:38 am
... In my organization, our developers typically work about 30 hours per week. 24 hours in sixteen 90 minute development sessions, about 3 hours for planning,...
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kschwaber
Apr 12, 2012 1:57 am
When Jeff and I first published Scrum, we put a number of practices in it, such as release planning, format of the Sprint Backlog, and how to best structure...
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Charles Bradley - Scr...
charles_brad...
Apr 12, 2012 2:19 am
Ken, There is no shortage of people out there willing to execute a great idea very poorly. I realize that and accept that. With all due respect, because I ...
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bb-gmail
irrobertb
Apr 12, 2012 3:59 am
Hi Philip, This is basically what we did with legacy bugs. One of the options was to add it to the product's technical debt which won't sit well with some but ...