In my post, When You Have No Product Owner at All, I said
That’s because agile needs a responsible person who is
not part of the cross-functional...
0 replies - 905 views - 04/01/13 by Johanna Rothman in Articles
“The second is the most dangerous system a man ever designs” Fred Brooks, 1975 & 1995Brooks
was talking about software designers, architects, but I...
2 replies - 6433 views - 04/01/13 by Allan Kelly in Articles
There is some talk of values in the Scrum literature. The five values
called out by the writers of the original Scrum book are focus,
courage, openness,...
4 replies - 4429 views - 03/30/13 by Tobias Mayer in Articles
“How can we tell how far along we are with our agile adoption?”
I heard this question again the other day.
Usually, the person who asks the question...
0 replies - 5769 views - 03/30/13 by Esther Derby in Articles
While doing the electronic equivalent of cleaning the attic yesterday, I
stumbled across an internal paper I wrote at a client back in late
September...
0 replies - 1476 views - 03/29/13 by Dave Rooney in Articles
My wife grew up spending a half of every summer living in Algonquin Park. My father-in-law was a bush pilot for the Ontario Ministry of Natural...
0 replies - 2887 views - 03/29/13 by Dave Rooney in Articles
Keeping track of the backlog in a Scrum project is a challenge. It
quickly grows to hundreds of items that are in various state of
readiness for inclusion...
0 replies - 2355 views - 03/28/13 by Anders Abel in Articles
I am wondering if maybe some people should try and replace their regular Kanban board with a networked Kanban variant.
I love the principles behind Kanban....
0 replies - 1702 views - 03/28/13 by Jurgen Appelo in Articles
A note to hiring managers and HR departments.
Today I came across yet another job ad for a ScrumMaster—sadly posted to an Agile online group. Here it is,...
2 replies - 2146 views - 03/27/13 by Tobias Mayer in Articles
About 15 years ago, I started a simple practice with my fellow
co-workers and employees. Every so often, we'd meet to discuss stuff and
things. Nothing too...
0 replies - 3113 views - 03/27/13 by Michael Norton in Articles
The insufficiency of Scrum is a fallacy perpetrated by teams that don’t step up their practices in concert with their planning and don’t really want to...
4 replies - 3265 views - 03/26/13 by Martin Hinshelwood in Articles
“the two view-points are always tenable. The one, how can you improve human nature until you have changed the system? The other, what is the use of changing...
0 replies - 2404 views - 03/26/13 by Allan Kelly in Articles
Feature-itis. It’s an agile Product Owner game. It’s when the Product
Owner says, in his or her best George Carlin voice, “Gimme Features. I
don’t...
1 replies - 1600 views - 03/26/13 by Johanna Rothman in Articles
Moving beyond the Visual part of the Kanban Method
and beginning the process of collaboratively improving the system with
policies that enable you to work...
1 replies - 1356 views - 03/25/13 by Tom Howlett in Articles
Retread of a post originally made on 06 Sep 2004
I've heard a couple of questions recently about coming up with a standard story point mechanism for...
0 replies - 1485 views - 03/25/13 by Martin Fowler in Articles
