It is perhaps a myth, but an enduring one, that people and their pets resemble one another. The same has been said of products and the teams that build them. If it is true that a product reflects the structure of the team that built it, then an important decision for any Scrum project is how to organize individuals into teams. This paper presents a set of guidelines to consider in designing an appropriate team structure.
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Scrum/Agile Roles
We’ve added two new tools for prioritizing a product backlog: Theme Screening and Theme Scoring. Each of these is a lightweight way of comparing product backlog items to one another.
Theme Scoring
You can use theme scoring to compare user stories or entire projects against one another. In this technique you identify a set of criteria that [...]
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I had an interesting conversation with a manager the other day about how to gain more insight into changes that are ongoing in the application one of our pilot Scrum teams is working on. First, what’s the problem? Group A was doing independent regression for a release and uncovered some ”defects’ that were a result [...]
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Coaching tips
The conference schedule for Agile Central Europe includes two full tracks and an open space, with talks ranging from agile retrospectives to kanban. [Read more about the conference][1].
[1]: http://blog.adsdevshop.com/2010/03/05/agile-central-europe-conference-schedule-announced/
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Christian Gruber, a Googler, an agile guru and an Aikido practitioner clears up some important mis-understandings about Shu-Ha-Ri as applied to both learning Agile and learning Aikido: http://bit.ly/bqgvZS . Strongly Recommended!
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Agile, aikido, Learning, shu-ha-ri, training
Agile ideas are making their way into IT groups and data center operations, enabling greater business agility. Learn more about [extending Agile to deployment and operations][1].
[1]: http://blog.adsdevshop.com/2010/03/04/devops-extending-agile-to-deployment-and-operations/
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Are you registered for the Agile Coaches Camp this month in Durham, NC? If not, you should. I’ll admit… I was a bit skeptical about the first Agile Coach Camp in Ann Arbor. The guys at VersionOne asked me if I wanted to go. I was like… fly to M…
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agile coach camp
Blind devotion to Agile methodologies without taking the business’ context into account is causing major failures in companies. Agile methods such as Scrum and Kanban are flexible systems that can be tailored to help solve business problems. But if not being blindly devoted to the one true way means that you aren’t “being Agile,” then [you have my permission to not be][1].
[1]: http://blog.adsdevshop.com/2010/03/02/you-have-my-permission-to-not-be-agile/
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Have you ever had a computer meltdown? OK, so myIT infrastructure meltdown wasn’t as total as the picture to the left, but it still was pretty bad. In the span of a couple of days I had my main desktop and my main laptop both die. This happened just before I had several straight weeks [...]
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Miscellaneous
A nice side effect of having the Succeeding with Agile book done and in print is that some of my time has freed up for other projects. One such project has been the creation of some tools for agile and Scrum projects that we’re making available on the Mountain Goat Software website.
I’ve wanted to make [...]
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