Our two best team building people, Esther and Diana, have come up with a course to teach us how to build and manage Scrum teams. Without understanding this...
Hi folks, I'm looking for some examples of "completeness" definitions for functional product backlog items. What do you all use? Areas of expectation that I...
... If I understand what you are looking for, it would have to be a company that has an established, reasonably healthy Scrum team running. I know of...
Hi Chris, I am afraid I have two answers :-) To get the right mindset into developers heads who are telling me they are "done with it" as soon as an item is...
Mike (D), Jiri, thanks for your encouragement - I have started to work on this. It might take some time until you get to see it - I was advised it has to go...
Hi all, I am pleased to present a new site on Agile Methdologies and XP: http://www.agilexp.org It is the site of the Italian research project MAPS on the...
On Tue, 01 Mar 2005 09:34:49 -0800, Stefan Ahrensdorf ... Thanks Stefan. As an enterprise software company that releases software to customers no more often...
I've been doing some more blogging at <http://blog.bradapp.net/> continuing on the subject of "the first thing to build is trust". Part of it stemmed from a...
Any chance this can get squeezed into the gathering in Boston this May? -- Mike Dwyer "I Keep six faithful serving-men Who serve me well and true: Their names...
Dear Scrum Developers: CIBER has a need for several Java/J2EE Developers in the beautiful Pacific Northwest (Olympia, Washington) for a 24 month project. The...
Hi Folks, Danube Technologies is also bidding on this RFP. We are currently working with this customer to implement Scrum (mentoring/coaching) and we won the...
Hi Mike! The course is 2.5 days and highly experiential, so squeezing it into the May gathering probably is not possible. However, if you are asking whether we...
Remember that Agile is about doing the minimal needed to accomplish the task. If the work you did is the property of the company, then legal review is a...
That is good to hear. Looking forward to having you folks in my home town. -- Mike Dwyer "I Keep six faithful serving-men Who serve me well and true: Their...
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Hi Brad, When I work with teams on their collaboration skills, the subject of trust always comes up - because, as you say, it is the first thing to build. I...
or you go to www.scrumgathering.org boris On Tue, 01 Mar 2005 16:01:25 -0500, Ken Schwaber ... -- boris gloger www.glogerconsulting.de www.scrumeducation.com...
checkout contolchaos.com for details. -- Mike Dwyer "I Keep six faithful serving-men Who serve me well and true: Their names are What and Where and When And...
... <snip> ... First of all, please take everything I say with a grain of salt. I realise that you need to make compromises, but please follow my train of...
Chris Brooks wrote: Hi Chris! ... Most teams I've worked with can become very development complete within a few sprints. The only development activity I...
... You are probably correct! We are just now learning the ropes here... ... To give a concrete example: we supply online banking software for over 25% of the...
Stasis comes to mind Death as well Looking for an adequate definition for complete sounds like expecting to find truth using bayesian logic. You almost get...
Excellent question, I see the same sort of thing at my work. My thought is that scrum give a good starting point but can't be a one size fits all methodology...
... That is a good attitude. SCRUM is indeed no silver bullet and you will always have to compromise at some point. I guess you are doing teh right thing...
Higuyes, ... I would define 'ready' as the software being in a state where the development team has no reasponable doubts or knowledge about the software not...
This is something we struggle with as well. We are near the end of a release cycle that has taken 5 months to complete. We changed an underlying data...
... I beg to differ. But I guess that is purely philosohpical. To me it is part of Scrum because scrum does define a methodology that leads to certain...
