I will be at the Colorado Software Summit November 4-8. I am a Java developer, SCRUM/XP user, as well as a division SEPG member and SQA manager in a major...
... There will be quite a few people interested in XP/Agile at Colorado Software Summit next week. There have been sessions and bof's on XP at previous years...
Attached is a call for papers for the Agile Development Conference, June 25-28 in Salt Lake City. This conference is being organized by AgileAlliance and...
Alan, I am not going to the Colorado Software Summit, but I would be very interested in knowing what you find there about companies with certification programs...
Of general interest to readers on this list (I hope)... I wanted to bring to your attention that Jeff De Luca has started an FDD community website at ...
<<< CALL FOR PARTICIPATION >>> XP Agile Universe 2003 August 10-13, 2003 New Orleans http://www.xpuniverse.com http://www.agileuniverse.com Following the...
Our small development team has recently implemented Scrum with great success. (Thanks Mike and Ken!) Just gave a presentation to our project managers. They...
Neil, I haven't actual experience with this, but here are my 2 pennies: If your team has experience with Scrum, then you should have some metrics collected. ...
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Ken Schwaber
ken.schwaber@...
Nov 25, 2002 5:48 pm
I gave a talk on this at the last OOPSLA. You have to approach a fixed price, fixed date contract the same, whether agile or clunky processes are being used;...
Thanks for your replies Hubert and Ken. What tends to happen here is that user requirements and technical requirements documents are written before any project...
Neil, Why isn't the writing of these specs done in a sprint? That would give the participants in the sprint (specially those who have to estimate the fixed ...
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Ken Schwaber
ken.schwaber@...
Nov 27, 2002 11:55 pm
I worked with an organization that just couldn't get the "business analysis" group into the Scrum thing, even though I pointed out the number of defects, ...
... Don't think that will work here. Our setup here is that funding is only granted for a project once the specs have all been written and signed off. As a...
I thought this list might be interested in the new community website for Feature Driven Development which Jeff De Luca has recently started. ...
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Ken Schwaber
ken.schwaber@...
Dec 6, 2002 5:26 am
I was at a BOF at SD East and Craig brought up that he thought that time-boxing, as in the Sprint, was the essence of agility. I demurred a reply at the time,...
Ken, Craig, I'd like to add another aspect: An agile project avoids planning details a long time in advance. Keeping the planning focus to the next sprint /...
... Outstanding thoughts, Ken. Some of your best work. On the same subject, time-boxing, I'm reminded of my funning way of describing Alistair's Crystal Clear:...
My thoughts on this are that "timeboxing" is the essence of RAD. Agile is much more than RAD! RAD says - prioritize your requirements, estimate what can be...
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Craig Larman
craig@...
Dec 10, 2002 4:08 am
I think I said something like "an iterative lifecycle of short timeboxed iterations is the most important ingredient in successful process." Consider an...
