SCRUM: Removing bottlenecks is a core systems design principle
How do you optimize throughput in any systems process? Goldratt’s book is extremely useful to any techncial expert, whether in software development, or a surgeon in the Operating Room of the Future. It is written as a novel, easy and fun to read, and based on...
SCRUM: Saving the Product While Downsizing 96%
Mike Cohn has written a very cool article on how he used SCRUM to assure product survival and a company sale with 12 people after laying off 88. SCRUM works best under pressure! Cohn, Mike. From the Front Line: The Upside of Downsizing. STQE Magazine 5:1:18-21,...
SCRUM: Agile database development
Fowler, Martin and Sadalage, Pramod. Evolutionary Database Design Abstract: Over the last few years we’ve developed a number of techniques that allow a database design to evolve as an application develops. This is a very important capability for agile...
SCRUM Resource: Lessons Learned in Managing Object-Oriented Development
SCRUM project management is becoming increasingly important as scalability of SCRUM across multiple projects in large organizations is attempted. On 18 December, I posted a note on how to provide charts and graphs for management of a SCRUM project in less than 10...
SCRUM: Dealing with Bugs in a Sprint
Update on 17 Sep 2008: Please note that this is a very old posting in the early days of PatientKeeper before we learned how to eliminate the “QA Sprint” or “stabilization Sprint” before going to full production in a hospital system. The...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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