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Pomodoro, 2013 edition

My story with the Pomodoro Technique started in 2009, and in 2010 I was helping my team in adopting it. We used a simple Gnome applet at the time, not even a...

2 replies - 2026 views - 01/28/13 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles

Scrum 101 … an Intensive Online Introduction to Scrum

A scene from the Scrum 101 introductory video. Scrum101 is a side project that I’ve been working on and off for over a year. It started as some...

0 replies - 3552 views - 01/28/13 by Kane Mar in Articles

How we do Sprint Retrospectives

Sprint retrospectives are a key part of Scrum, which goes back to the lean roots of scrum with the focus on continous improvements. When I wrote this series on...

0 replies - 2234 views - 01/28/13 by Anders Abel in Articles

Design Doesn't Emerge from Code

I know a lot of people who are transitioning to Agile or already following Agile development methods. Almost all of them are using something based on Scrum at...

0 replies - 4065 views - 01/24/13 by Jim Bird in Articles

Agile Methodologies: Build Driven Deployment – The Hot new craze coming to a development team near you

I love it when someone who was in one of my workshops sends me a message saying something from the workshop worked well for them. Recently I have started...

0 replies - 778 views - 01/22/13 by Bob Hartman in Articles

Is Punishment for Being Late to a Scrum a Bad Thing?

One of the first rules of Scrum Meetings is to ensure that it is conducted at the same time every day at the same place. It also expects that the team members...

0 replies - 1422 views - 01/17/13 by Venkatesh Kris... in Articles

Scrum FAQ

What is Scrum? Scrum is a software development methodology that helps teams build better software faster. Why is Scrum popular? In fact there are...

0 replies - 2703 views - 01/14/13 by Michael Dubakov in Articles

Agile Planning & Estimation

Introduction: Planning and estimation are two of the main factors that can influence the outcome of any project.  So with the wide adaption of agile...

0 replies - 2614 views - 01/04/13 by Mohamed Kishawy in Articles

Moving from Scrum to Kanban

Rachel Davies - Moving from Scrum to Kanban from NDCOslo on Vimeo.Many teams who are already using Scrum would like to know what benefits they can get by...

0 replies - 5012 views - 12/31/12 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

The Funniest ScrumMasters I've Ever Met

Have you ever had one of those days when you wondered if your ScrumMaster was on crack? Or maybe you’re the ScrumMaster and the you wonder why you are...

0 replies - 2056 views - 12/30/12 by Bob Hartman in Articles

ITOps Sprint 1 Review

Our first ever ITOps sprint completed on Friday 7th December amid much fanfare and celebration (ok, that’s a bit of an exaggeration). The team completed a...

0 replies - 1857 views - 12/28/12 by James Betteley in Articles

Use Scrum Even if You Don’t Want to be Agile

An “Agile” project is one that actively seeks to incorporate changes as the project progresses, rather than assuming that the plans from the beginning of...

0 replies - 1527 views - 12/25/12 by Johannes Brodwall in Articles

Performance Evaluations and Scrum.

One of the most frequently ask questions that I’m asked is, how do you do personal performance reviews and appraisals in a Scrum environment. Part of the...

0 replies - 1078 views - 12/25/12 by David Bland in Articles

Scrum and Fixed Price Contracts

Fixed Priced contracts don’t make a great deal of sense in a Scrum world. This is really because traditional software development and Agile software...

0 replies - 1903 views - 12/24/12 by David Bland in Articles

Scrum at Google

You may not have found this awesome google tech talk from 2006.  It tells the story of how a group implemented Scrum at Google and what they did to tune...

0 replies - 3337 views - 12/21/12 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles