Perfecting Scrum Basics

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...

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 stabilization Sprint fully...

Scaling Agile Methods: Can eXtreme programming work for large projects? By Sanjay Murthi, New Architect, October 2002 From literate programming to evolutionary delivery, veteran project managers have seen a variety of shifting development methodologies. Most recently,...

Mike Kohn has a nice description and presentation of the SCRUM development process on his web site. "Scrum works because it is a highly-empowering process that allows requirements and self-organizing teams to emerge. In their book, Schwaber and Beedle describe Scrum...

Ambler, Scott. Managers Manage. Software Development, Oct 2002, p. 43. Scott provides a brief review of SCRUM project management. It's enough to get you started. Also the Software Development Conference is in Boston this year, 18-22 November. Check out: 21 Nov...

Pouring new wine into old wineskins has caused problems for thousands of years. When you take an agile development process and pour it into minds and marketing machines that reproduce the same old waterfall approach complete with GANT charts, failure should not be...

Hal Malcomber has an interesting blog on "Reforming Project Management" that focuses on lean project delivery. If you run projects you might want to be reading this. Here is an interesting recent comment that explains why SCRUM avoids GANT charts. They are guaranteed...

Abrahasson, Pekka et al. Agile software development: Review and analysis. ESPOO 2002, VTT Publications 478. 107p. Keywords: Software development, agile processes, agile methods, extreme programming, agile modelling, open source software development, software project...

There are user groups springing up around the Agile Alliance focused on improving development processes along the lines of the Agile Manifesto. I attended the New England Agile User Group on Thursday, 18 September, and a good time was had by all. Ken Schwaber's...

  Note: CMM is a service mark of the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. Shawn Presson, Director of Organizational Practice, ITS Services, Inc. says: Why, why, why does everything think the waterfall life cycle is exclusively linear? It...

By Erik Sherman July 19, 2002 "The quest for quality software may require programmers to lose the cowboy attitude and learn to cooperate. "Mansour Raad had a big problem. His start-up firm, DiscoverCast, was developing collision-detection software for the airline...

by Charles Fishman, Fast Company 28, p 174 Self-organizing teams can produce really high quality. In some companies there are no managers when the teams are all self-organizing. "Although engines go out the door of this plant at a rate of more than one per day, the...