Mark Balabanian, new appointed COO of Accunote, asks the question how can a manager help a Scrum team. From his previous encounters with Scrum teams he thought that Scrum was just a tool to shield developers from management, forcing management to interact with developers on their terms. Now he’s read “Agile Software Development with Scrum” by Ken Schwaber and Mike Beedle to improve his understanding of Scrum. However, the book doesn’t cover in great detail the role of management and so Mark wondered what he should be doing. [Learn more][1].
[1]: http://www.infoq.com/news/2009/08/agile-managers-role
Uncategorized
Agile Software Development, Agile Software Development With Scrum, Coo, Developers, Infoq, Interact, Ken Schwaber, Tool
A few years back when I was still doing hands-on project management work… I used to teach internal classes on iterative and incremental product development. Officially… we were teaching a very light-weight instantiation of the Rational Unified Pro…
Uncategorized
adopting agile, Agile, Audience, Business Analysts, Coordination, Customer Value, Detailed Design Specifications, Developers, Extent, Hard Core, Increment, Instantiation, Lean, Market Software, Project Management Work, Project Managers, Rational Unified Process, Requirements Documents, Sales And Marketing, Streams, Viable Product, Waterfall, Working Software
I’m a firm believer in retrospectives and the value that comes from a team committing to constant improvement.
Over the last few weeks I’ve been delivering Agile training to a wide range of folks from developers to testers to traditional PM’s to business folks and so on. To demonstrate the power of retrospectives, at the end [...]
Uncategorized
Attendees, Brainstorm, Buckets, Business Folks, Ciriculum, Cla, Coaching tips, Curriculum, Developers, Firm Believer, Life Situations, Magical Thing, Manifesto, Retrospective, retrospectives, Scenarios, Sessions, Stickies, Time Constraint, Validity, Weeds, Whiteboard
Ideally bugs belong on the product backlog just like any feature request. But, that would often necessitate a significant change for the rest of the organization so two backlogs are used.
Uncategorized
Accommodation, Address, Adoption, Backlog, Backlogs, Boojum, Bug Database, Bugs, Cold Turkey, Concurrent Projects, Databases, Developers, Ideal, Marketing Database, Marketing Group, New Feature, Perspective, product backlog, Solution Teams, Sprint, Sprint Artifacts, Sprinting, Tech Support Group, User Stories