June 2011
10 Things to do in Sprint 0
Posted on June 29th, 2011 | 0 Comments
Quite often Scrum projects and teams assume that they can start developing as from day 1 of the project.
This is only partially true and depends on your definition of ‘Start of the project’.
If ‘Start of the project’ for you is defined as “we have our team ready, give me the prioritized backlog, we’ll estimate so we can start developing”, then you can indeed start developing immediately.
However in most of the cases, you don’t have a backlog, a team... ready when the GO for a project is given. In these cases you need to do a ‘Sprint 0’.
Hoe Scrum de waterval binnensmokkelen
Posted on June 24th, 2011 | 0 Comments
Werk je in een waterval en in sterk gereguleerde projecten? Gooi de Scrumgedachte niet overboord, maar smokkel ze zachtjesaan binnen. Met pragmatisme bereik je meer dan met fundamentalisme. Videoblog van Rini van Solingen.
Follow this | 23 jun 2011
Posted on June 23rd, 2011 | 0 Comments
The Curse of the Carddecks, Tax on your Product Backlog and Tango!
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Fibonacci must die!
The curse of the carddecks
http://practicalagility.blogspot.com/2011/06/fibonacci-must-die.html
What's in a story?
How to break-up functionality into stories
http://blog.agilebuddy.com/2010/12/whats-in-a-story-breaking-things-down.html
Risk management - The Risk Rule of Three
Posted on June 22nd, 2011 | 0 Comments
Risk management is one of the more important aspects in project management.
As project manager your responsibility is to help your team to avoid and get rid of the issues and risks that lay all over the bumpy road towards project success.
On the other hand there is also a risk :-) that you’ll spend much valuable time in analyzing and finding mitigations for things that might never occur.
So how should you tackle it then?
My (pragmatic and default) answer: use your common sense.
To avoid spending too much time on unsure, useless things but still be able to identify the most important risks for your project, I developed a simple guideline. I call it my Risk Rule of Three).
ScrumTips: 13 jun. - 17 jun.
Posted on June 20th, 2011 | 0 Comments
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Why Scrum? - An explanation, the satirical way
Posted on June 17th, 2011 | 0 Comments
Not sure what Scrum is? A quite satirical movie of a developing team explaining why they implemented scrum.
Follow this | 17 jun. 2011
Posted on June 17th, 2011 | 0 Comments
About agile deathmarches, agile learning plateaus, agile sins and getting paid more
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Why you should pay the developers in Scrum more
Responsibilities in Scrum
http://www.scrum-breakfast.com/2010/08/responsibilities-in-scrum-or-scrum.html
The plateauing of an agile learning process
And what to do about it
http://www.netobjectives.com/blogs/reflections-on-sqe-conferences-west-2011
DoRR - Definition of Ready for Release
Posted on June 15th, 2011 | 0 Comments
We are all familiar with the definition of ready and with the definition of done for stories on a scrum project. But as mentioned many times by many people the DoD of a story is often not enough to relase the 'Done' story to our customers.
That is why terms like DoD and concepts like 'Done, Done' were introduced. I would like to present you (yet) another one :-) : DoRR.
ScrumTips: 6 jun - 10 jun.
Posted on June 14th, 2011 | 0 Comments
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Scrum to manage your organization
Posted on June 10th, 2011 | 0 Comments
We do agile: we do XP, (A)TDD, KanBan, a bit of Lean and ... Rugby!
Rugby, yes. Oh, it is called Scrum?!
Follow this | 09 june 2011
Posted on June 9th, 2011 | 0 Comments
Seven tools to make you a better Product Owner, how Taylor strikes back in software and some other interesting stuff
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Seven tools for the Product Owner
Alistair Cockburn picks the best from KANO, InnovGames and others
http://alistair.cockburn.us/7+tools+for+the+product+owner
Taylorism strikes back on software development
15 years after Kent Beck's XP
http://alistair.cockburn.us/Taylorism+strikes+software+development
Follow this | 7 june 2011
Posted on June 7th, 2011 | 0 Comments
About the prisoner's dilemma for programmers, about Lean and sabres
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Finding a product owner is not that hard
Finding a product owner with sifficient power is another thing
http://agilescout.com/enable-and-equip-your-product-owners/
Prisoner's dilemma in programming
Think carefully, very carefully
http://raganwald.posterous.com/the-programmers-dilemma-95099
ScrumTips: 30 may - 3 jun.
Posted on June 6th, 2011 | 0 Comments
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