Perfecting Scrum Basics

Business 2.0, 1 Jul 2006 Why He Matters: High oil prices? Toyota says, Bring it on. In May, as the average cost of a gallon of gas approached $3, Toyota reported a 17 percent sales increase over the year before, even as General Motors and Ford saw declines of 16 and 2...

The JAOO Conference is coming up next week in Denmark. This is one of the leading annual software developer conferences and highly recommended. Last year, I presented at the JAOO conference on the Roots of Scrum. It was a great conference with about 900 Java and .NET...

In response to questions about hyperproductive Scrum teams, please take a look at the SirsiDynix project, the most productive large Java project ever documented. A 56 member distributed/outsourced team was split between Provo, Utah; Denver, Colorado; Waterloo, Canada;...

Scrum Tuning: Program Management with Scrum 1-2 Nov 2006 Boston Sign up using buttons on left side of page ... Take your ScrumMaster certification or knowledge of basic Scrum, Agile and lean practices to the next level! Get Agile at Patientkeeper, one of the most...

At the Agile 2005 conference in Denver, I presented a research paper on a multi-team, multi-product Scrum which has a daily Scrum-of-Scrums meetings and a weekly MetaScrum where all Sprints are started, stopped, or changed by a broad base of company stakeholders. Thus...

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...

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...

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 Microsoft adopted...

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.  Also, we saw backlog...

High Moon produced a great video on Scrum. Check it out! High Moon Studios, part of Vivendi Games, is a game developer currently working on titles for next-generation consoles. The company is founded by game veterans who are passionate about creating compelling,...

GANTT charts have some utility when a Product Owner has to present to naive users (non-Agile managers) to get a project funded. Once implementation of the plan starts, the team enters the fog of war, just like a squad of troops entering battle. Military generals fully...

ScrumMaster has developed a line of contact equipment for use in training aspects of the sport of rugby -- the world's foremost Scrum Machines. The principal aim in the development of these products is to provide teams with safe, effective tools with which to improve...

Game Development Enters the Scrum GameDAILY BIZ Tuesday, December 20, 2005 Clinton Keith, High Moon So many developers seem locked into traditional game making processes, but as game creation becomes more and more complex (and costly), alternative methodologies may be...

Tobias Mayer pointed out a classic paper in the scrumdevelopment group today. Parnas has created many papers that are now viewed as classics in the software development literature. This one points out many of the reasons why software development is an empirical...

Microsoft Lauds 'Scrum' for Software Development Projects David K. Taft eWeek, 11 Nov 2005 When Microsoft launched its long-awaited database and tools products last week, the company acknowledged it would have to act faster to revise its products faster as customer...

Program Management with Scrum Training 13-14 October 2005 CLOSED New Balance Corporate Headquarters A good place to get Agile is at one of the leading athletic companies in the United States and in response to email with questions about this unique Advanced...

Developers are regularly faced with the conundrum of cramming 10 tons of work into a 5 ton bag. The latest version of this appeared on the Scrum Development list today. We have a 1500 point project. We have a 9 person team. We have an estimated velocity of 70 points a...

David Rico sent around the latest version of his thesis proposal and it makes for an interesting read. Developers in many companies have stock options and want them to have real value. Rico argues that a company declaring publicly that it supports Agile methods can...

National Treasures of Agile Development Tue Jul 19 2005 02:34 PM By Robert Cowham, Steve Berczuk and Brad Appleton Introduction Recent research has discovered a very interesting cache of papers about a little known Tribe called the Agile Developers. The first document...

Scrum origins include the work of Colin Angle. As an MIT student, he sublet space in 1990 at my Object Databases lab in Cambridge and had his early robots hunting me down in my office. I spent a lot of time understanding Rodney Brooks subsumption architecture and it...

John Scumniotales, the first ScrumMaster "The end of the project manager, the birth of the ScrumMaster, a transient job valid until the organization has changed and is self-managing." Ken Schwaber The quote from Ken Schwaber elequently describes the role of a project...

Love it or hate it, the Agile 2005 Conference reviewers thought the paper below was either a major innovation or a gross violation of the principles (dogma) of Scrum. It's motto is innovate or die and only the paranoid survive in the global economy. Does it show the...