John Scumniotales New Blog: Agile Project Development
In 1993, Easel Corporation acquired a German Smalltalk compiler company and hired me to lead a team to produce Object Studio for Smalltalk. We were a Microsoft partner and they must have liked our name as they later created Visual Studio. I essentially had a position...
Distributed Scrum: Agile Project Management with Outsourced Development Teams
Recently, I had to complete a research paper on distributed programming for the Agile 2006 Conference in a two day weekend. Russian XP expert and project leader, Anton Viktorov, flew into Boston from St. Petersburg to help write up the SirsiDynix project. Over...No Silver Bullet: Essence and Accidents of Software Engineering
Fred Brooks comments: Much of present-day software-acquisition procedure rests upon the assumption that one can specify a satisfactory system in advance, get bids for its construction, have it built, and install it. I think this assumption is fundamentally wrong, and...Microsoft Vista: Scrum or Not-Scrum
Peter Krantz rants on Scrum, Lies, and Red Tape at the Microsoft Vista project (see below). He’s in Stockholm and I’m on a SAS flight over Greenland returning from two weeks in Sweden and Denmark doing several ScrumMaster Certification Classes. While...Why the Three Questions in the Daily Scrum Meeting?
In 2017, Ken Schwaber and I made the three questions in the Daily Scrum optional because we saw too many “zombie” teams that were giving lip service to the questions – not collaborating, not replanning, not swarming, and not removing impediments. ...6 Agile Ways To Increase Employee Engagement
Organizations who utilize Agile ways of working experience a 20-30% improvement in employee engagement. Engage, Equip & Empower your employees.
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