May 2011
Fixing bugs during our scrum - How we do it
Posted on May 25th, 2011 | 0 Comments
We are a scrum team developing a product that is never finished. We have had some problems with bugs in the past. Bugs kept reappearing, causing a lot of work at the end of the sprint to fix them all. To deal with this problem, we've come up with a few rules.
Follow this | 24 may 2011
Posted on May 24th, 2011 | 0 Comments
About Myanmar, Bonanza, Swiss retrospectives and overloaded taskboards
Your portion of certified value adding agile links ;-)
Throwing fruit-melanges at Myanmar
If Fibonacci is too detailed and T-shirts suck
http://www.aboriginemundi.com/index.php/2011/05/agile-techniques-fruit-estimation-poker/
How TDD and Bonanza can help you out
Why we don't notive unreasonable requirements
http://www.netobjectives.com/blogs/the-bonanza-syndrome
ScrumTips: 16 may - 20 may
Posted on May 23rd, 2011 | 0 Comments
Every day we release a new Scrum tip for all you agile folks out there.
These tips are released last week, you could have received these tips much earlier: Follow us on Twitter
- It's better to burn down than to fake your way.
- Integration is a long and unpredictable process if you postpone it too long, so you should do it at least a few times per day
- From http://bit.ly/iIXoPm Working software is the primary measure of progress
- Scrum helps model builders to forecast based on imperfect data
- Agile is very collaborative and does not work well with “dictator”-type project management
The planning onion versus the Agile Cowboys
Posted on May 20th, 2011 | 0 Comments
One of the misconceptions about the agile process is that agilists are cowboys, that they don't do any planning.
In reality, there's quite some planning behind.
The following video blog peels off each layer of the planning onion to provide details of the planning at each level.
Follow this | 17 may 2011
Posted on May 17th, 2011 | 0 Comments
About Agile Engineering, Agile governance and how intelligent influence can be
Your portion of certified value adding links ;-)
IQ vs IQ
About Intelligence versus Influence
http://www.estherderby.com/2011/05/theres-intelligenceq-and-then-theres-influenceq.html
Agile governance
Communities of Practice and Scrum of Scrums (CoP, SoS)
http://www.agilehelpline.com/2011/03/agile-governance.html
ScrumTips: 9 may - 14 may
Posted on May 16th, 2011 | 0 Comments
Every day we release a new Scrum tip for all you agile folks out there.
These tips are released last week, you could have received these tips much earlier: Follow us on Twitter
- Nothing sucks the blood of a CI activity more than a build that takes a long time
- If requirements are likely to change for any reason, Agile will be much more productive than Waterfall
- Rule of thumb: Take virgin machine, do check-out and you should be able to fully build the system
- pmscrum now offers free team edition subscription to opensource & non-profit teams. Apply here: http://bit.ly/fIpwmL
- Daily stand-ups help people self-organize and self-manage by driving transparency into their day-to-day activities
Start using the pmScrum Demo
Posted on May 13th, 2011 | 0 Comments
Did you know that pmScrum has a demo-environment of its scrumtool?
Well yes, you can subscribe to a free trial version of our tool, but you can take the fast lane too.
We created a sandbox environment with a pre-filled project where you can play around: Adding stories, tasks, everything you want to have a first taste of pmScrum. Enjoy!
The movie here shows you where you can find it.
Follow this | 12 may 2011
Posted on May 12th, 2011 | 0 Comments
About the youngest CSM, playing around with agile boardgames, something about Toyota and more Manifesto's
Another handful of useful links about scrum, agile, xp,...
Acceptance criteria and User stories
A beginner's guide
http://www.boost.co.nz/blog/agile/acceptance-criteria/
The youngest CSM
Waterfall and Scrum as seen through the eyes of a non-polluted teenager
http://agileanarchy.wordpress.com/2011/05/02/the-youngest-csm/
Follow this | 10 may 2011
Posted on May 10th, 2011 | 0 Comments
About Scrumbaya & Scrum's Achilles Heel, about product Owners by Proxy and Scrum beyond software, and why relative estimation is child's play
Another handful of useful links about scrum, agile, xp,...
Scrum beyond software
Achieving business strategic goals with agile
http://phoenix.scrumgathering.org/achieving-business-strategic-goals-with-agile
Product Owner by Proxy
What if you don't have a PO for your agile project
http://brainslink.com/2011/04/product-owner-by-proxy/
ScrumTips: 2 may - 6 may
Posted on May 9th, 2011 | 0 Comments
Every day we release a new Scrum tip for all you agile folks out there.
These tips are released last week, you could have received these tips much earlier: Follow us on Twitter
- Scrum helps model builders to forecast based on imperfect data
- Favorite feature for distributed scrum teams is the multi-person chat room
- Rule of thumb: Take virgin machine, do check-out and you should be able to fully build the system
- Agile is very collaborative and does not work well with "dictator"-type project management
- Daily stand-ups help people self-organize and self-manage by driving transparency into their day-to-day activities
Agile Engineering - Continuously Monitoring the Sprint
Posted on May 5th, 2011 | 0 Comments
Our pmScrum software is developed using agile engineering. To make sure we don't let go on that one, we created our scrum monitor to continuously monitoring the status of our sprint.
Our pmScrum software is developed using agile engineering techniques. One of our references, to check if we are doing it correctly, is the JoelTest. We try to stick as close as possible to the Joel Test.
(http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000043.html).
The Joel Test is basically a list of questions you can answer with a simple yes/no:
- Do you use source control?
- Can you make a build in one step?
- Do you make daily builds?
Release Notes Sprint 100
Posted on May 5th, 2011 | 0 Comments
Besides celebrating,
this is what we realized during our sprint 100.
Rates for hours per person are now configurable
- Four fields (standard, weekend, overtime and oncall) costs are added to the person page and organization unit.
- On the skills page, internal and external costs are added.
- The API has been extended to support the setting/getting of these values.
- There is a specific method to retrieve the cost of a person. If no value is set on the person, the values of the organization unit are returned.
ScrumTips: 25 apr. - 29 apr.
Posted on May 3rd, 2011 | 0 Comments
Every day we release a new ScrumTip for all you agile folks out there.
These tips are released last week, you could have received these tips much earlier: Follow us on Twitter
