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...
Hi, Very intresting! Why I requested a Swedish company was not primarily because of the language, but since it's somewhat easier to see Scrum in action if the...
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Ken Schwaber
ken.schwaber@...
Nov 25, 2001 3:17 pm
Do your thesis using Scrum. Do a move using Scrum. Find a new girlfriend using Scrum. Restructure the Swedish economy using Scrum. Use Scrum for anything. Ken ...
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Ken Schwaber
ken.schwaber@...
Nov 25, 2001 4:13 pm
Jonas, <Are there any plans of more Scrum books? Aren't books very important in order to facilitating making Scrum more popular? (compare with XP where they...
Thanks for you answer! ... may ... Nice! ... Goal). ... off ... Hopefully do all ScrumMasters act that way. ... get ... fixed ... collaboratively > work...
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Ken Schwaber
ken.schwaber@...
Nov 26, 2001 3:22 pm
<Won't it be hard to create a stable architecture if you don't have the end goal in sight? Or it is sufficient to use the information in the backlog as a...
Ken and Mike, I just wanted to thank you for your work on the book. Very well done! I read it in one sitting. In the future I would love to some real world...
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Ken Schwaber
ken.schwaber@...
Nov 26, 2001 8:21 pm
John, One sitting? Thanks for the compliment! I'll look into getting some backlog examples up on controlchaos.com. The daily estimating work is done by team...
If I could impose on those of you who have read the Scrum book, could you put your comments about the Scrum book on the www.amazon.com website at the book's...
Hi, Emerging requirements and self-organization I can understand and agree to. But I have harder understanding emerging architecture. Self- organizing teams...
