Project Management Offices serve no purpose in scrum. You are either a product owner, (not a manager), scrum master (not a manager either) or your in the team, (no technical leaders here either). How can an organisation migrate from central control to self directed scrum teams? What are the challenges to our former project managers?
Feb
15
2010
15
2010
Feb
8
2010
8
2010
Standing up at your scrum
The scrum stand up meeting, is sometimes renamed to “the scrum”. This is fine but remember you are supposed to stand up. The reasoning behind this is it keeps the meeting short. People do not become too comfortable. The idea is very simple. Quickly broadcast any information from the scrum master, then whizz around the [...]
Feb
8
2010
8
2010
Estimates are not commitments!
Probably one of the most common mistakes in Software Development is to allow Estimates to become Commitments. This article looks at story point estimation in scrum, and how velocity is a better tool for monitoring progress through to delivery. If your interested in the arguments that can be presented to the business for velocity metrics over estimation for setting delivery dates, read on.
Jan
18
2010
18
2010
Dancing to the tune of the Scrum Demo
As you achieve more experience with the scrum process, you come to realise that there is very little if anything you can afford to leave out. If your conducting scrum and considering leaving out a practice, its worth considering what is to be gained and lost. So continuing with the scrum and agile theme this year I plan review some of the scrum practices highlighting the benefits and some of the errors that are made. The first of these focuses on the Sprint Review and within that in particular the Software Demo.
Jan
14
2010
14
2010
Of Groundswell and Product Owners
I have just finished reading Groundswell by Josh Bernoff of Forrester Research. The book has been around for awhile but its concepts are worth understanding. Its a great book about how Social Technologies have changed the way companies relate to their customers. Not only that but how companies can benefit from Social Technologies within their own organisation. Its a good read, get hold of a copy. The book is rich with Internet law, marketing tips, research and good practice. It gave me some ideas on how Groundswell could be used to provide a product owner with some powerful tooling.