
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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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

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

(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

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

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

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

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

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