I had the following response to an analysis of RUP, XP,and Agile in the OTUG egroup: Sinan, I appreciate your effort to cast light on the discussion of agile...
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jsisk2001us@...
Sep 6, 2001 6:57 pm
Hi, Is the aplication running at http://www.scrumonline.com available to be installed locally by a team? I can see how it can be used for sharing information...
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Ken Schwaber
ken.schwaber@...
Sep 6, 2001 7:49 pm
I can pull together a package that you can install. When do you need it, and how large is the team? Is the web facility inadequate for the team, or what ...
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jonas.b@...
Sep 25, 2001 6:02 pm
Is the Scrum Master a member of the team? Do he/she "only" managing all the time or is he/she developing as well? Thanks in advance! Jonas...
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Ken Schwaber
ken.schwaber@...
Sep 25, 2001 7:27 pm
The Scrum Master can either be a non-programming or programming manager. Since impediment removal and checking out decisions can take time, I prefer for the...
Are there any more books/publications on Scrum to learn more about it? On Wednesday 26 September 2001 10:47, aporreaste el teclado diciendo: [snip] -> More...
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Ken Schwaber
ken.schwaber@...
Sep 27, 2001 2:12 am
Also, in about a month, we'll be publishing a lot about emergence, self-organizing teams, and management through collaboration at the informIT web site...
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Ken Schwaber
ken.schwaber@...
Sep 27, 2001 2:12 am
Funny you should ask. Mike Beedle and I just wrote a classic book about Scrum. It will be published by Prentice Hall on October 15 (OOPSLA 2001) and you can...
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Ken Schwaber
kschwaber@...
Sep 27, 2001 2:19 am
I want to mention that the last Scrum class of the year will be held in mid-October (right after OOPSLA). The class covers the theory, practices, and...
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jonas.b@...
Oct 3, 2001 5:46 pm
Thank you very much for your reply! I have some additional question about Scrum: * How large project might it handle? I.e how many concurrent Sprints are...
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jonas.b@...
Oct 3, 2001 6:30 pm
Is it possible for a Scrum Master to 'master' several teams/sprints? Thanks in advance! Jonas...
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Narsu, Uttam
UNarsu@...
Oct 3, 2001 6:48 pm
Ken, Have you or Mike Beedle written up anything more about XBreed (SCRUM + XP) than what's on the XBreed web site? The site's pretty thin right now. I presume...
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Ken Schwaber
ken.schwaber@...
Oct 3, 2001 7:28 pm
Yes, I've run three teams at once. This works really well if the teams are all on the same project, harder if each team is on a different project (mostly...
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Ken Schwaber
ken.schwaber@...
Oct 3, 2001 7:31 pm
That's pretty much it. You should try emailing Mike. Ken ... From: Narsu, Uttam [mailto:UNarsu@...] Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2001 2:49 PM To:...
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Ken Schwaber
ken.schwaber@...
Oct 3, 2001 7:31 pm
1. When you get over two teams sprinting at the same team on a project, you need to designate someone as the product architect. This person makes sure that...
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Ken Schwaber
kschwaber@...
Oct 10, 2001 6:22 pm
New stuff has been put up on the www.controlchaos.com website, including more information about the newest Scrum book and recent articles at InformIT about...
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Narsu, Uttam
UNarsu@...
Oct 10, 2001 10:02 pm
Ken, Thanks for the info. Please lose the @ symbol if you want people to find the methodology via a search engine. (Consider the difficulty Microsoft had with...
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Ken Schwaber
ken.schwaber@...
Oct 10, 2001 10:57 pm
For search engines, it's now xPatScrum. Logo is still xP@Scrum, but that's a graphic. Thanks for the pointer. xP@Scrum is different than xBreed, although both...
... Ken: I think that is healthy. xP@Scrum is Scrum as an XP wrapper, and no doubt, it brings a lot of value. XBreed is that but is more than that: 1) It...
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jonas.b@...
Oct 15, 2001 3:47 pm
Now I am done with the report about Scrum. It has been really interesting to study Scrum. Scrum really have many interesting parts and aspects, I must say. So...
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Ken Schwaber
ken.schwaber@...
Oct 17, 2001 2:07 pm
Jonas, I just got back from a workshop on agile processes at OOPSLA2001, where our conversations included your questions. 1. The backlog needs to be kept...
"Agile Software Development with Scrum" is now available in bookstores and at Amazon.com. The book covers the theory, practice, and advanced use of the Scrum...
The Agile Alliance Leaps Forward ... When the term ``agile methods'' was coined at Snowbird early in 2001, few of us could have predicted the speed with which...
During the Agile Alliance meeting at OOPSLA, I volunteered to look into forming an Agile Alliance structure within a non profit organization. The Agile...
A couple of articles that I wrote on two unexplored areas of agile processes and scrum are posted on InformIT (www.informit.com) under my name. The articles...
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michele@...
Nov 15, 2001 6:05 pm
********* XP2002 - FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS ********* 3rd International Conference on eXtreme Programming and Agile Processes in Software Engineering - XP2002 ...
Hello, Now I finally have got the book from Amazon and managed to take the time to read it. I must say that the book was really good, especially interesting to...
Hello everyone, I'm a Software Engineering student at Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden (http://www.bth.se) This spring I will do my master thesis. The...
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Peter McGowan
peter@...
Nov 25, 2001 12:08 am
Hi there, We're kicking of the development of the next generation of our systems here at Explorica next week. We should be finished by the end of next March....
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Ken Schwaber
ken.schwaber@...
Nov 25, 2001 2:32 am
Jonas, I caught your note on the way out, so I'll just make a quick response. I'll answer the rest of your questions tomorrow. XP is aimed at the engineering...
