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6 Tips for Good Scrum

The London Scrum Groups 6 Good Scrum Tips Love your product owner. The group agreed that the product owner should be part of the team. Include them in...

0 replies - 1841 views - 02/12/13 by Martin Harris in Articles

Excerpt from Scrum 101: Scrum and XP

This is the second excerpt from Scrum101, the free intensive online introduction to Scrum, which I introduced several weeks ago. In this second except, I’d...

0 replies - 1728 views - 02/11/13 by Kane Mar in Articles

How Do You Like Multitasking Among Several Projects?

Øredev 2011 - Agile Portfolio Planning: Managing Your Project Portfolio - Johanna Rothman from Øredev Conference on Vimeo. Whether you’ve been...

0 replies - 1070 views - 02/11/13 by Johanna Rothman in Articles

Better Scrum Sprint Planning – Look to the Demo

After having worked with Scrum for a number of years, I still witness sprint reviews where the team’s demonstration of the product is confusing and the value...

0 replies - 1321 views - 02/11/13 by Johannes Brodwall in Articles

DZone Links You Don't Want To Miss (2/11/13)

IoC Containers Considered Harmful  Øyvind Bakksjø is a bit skeptical of where the Java community is heading.  Although he's completely fine with...

0 replies - 2308 views - 02/11/13 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Geographically Distributed Agile Teams Have Choices for Their Lifecycles

I hope that by now you see that you have any number of choices for your lifecycle if you are geographically distributed team and you are transitioning to...

0 replies - 1392 views - 02/10/13 by Johanna Rothman in Articles

Team Trap #1: Messing with the Membership

One summer, long ago and far away, I was on a softball team.  It would be an exaggeration to say I played softball, but I did participate in practices,...

0 replies - 1279 views - 02/10/13 by Esther Derby in Articles

The 0th Trap of Teams

 “If you call a tail a leg, how many legs has a dog? Five? No, calling a tail a leg don’t make it a leg.” Abraham Lincoln The zeroeth trap of...

0 replies - 1613 views - 02/09/13 by Esther Derby in Articles

Agile Lifecycles for Geographically Distributed Teams, Part 3

Example 3: Using a Project Manager with Iterations and Kanban and Silo’d Teams Here, the developers were in Cambridge, MA, the product owners were in San...

0 replies - 2091 views - 02/09/13 by Johanna Rothman in Articles

Agile Blindside

 (this article originally appeared on gantthead.com) Agile project management depends on transparency and feedback. Visibility into the product and...

0 replies - 1026 views - 02/08/13 by Esther Derby in Articles

Agile Lifecycles for Geographically Distributed Teams, Part 2

Example 2: Using a Project Manager with Kanban, Silo’d Teams This is a product development organization with developers in Italy, testers in India, more...

0 replies - 1505 views - 02/08/13 by Johanna Rothman in Articles

Agile Lifecycles for Geographically Distributed Teams, Part 1

I’ve been working with geographically distributed and dispersed teams for the past couple of years. Some of them on quite large programs, some of them...

0 replies - 1243 views - 02/08/13 by Johanna Rothman in Articles

Experiences with the book club

Once a week, or anyway at periodical intervals, my whole team participates in a meeting to discuss a chapter of a technical book, or a rather long article,...

0 replies - 3412 views - 02/07/13 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles

Randomized Studies of Productivity

A couple days ago I wrote a blog post quoting Cal Newport suggesting that four hours of intense concentration a day is as much as anyone can sustain. That post...

0 replies - 2344 views - 02/07/13 by John Cook in Articles

Stakeholders and Feedback in the Scrum Community

I feel like stakeholders don’t always get the attention they deserve from the Scrum community. You hear all kinds of things about planning sprints,...

0 replies - 794 views - 02/07/13 by Sean Mchugh in Articles