But to my mind, though I am native here
And to the manner born, it is a custom
More honor'd in the breach than the observance
- Hamlet Act 1,...
0 replies - 372 views - 05/22/13 by Ian Mitchell in Articles
Recently I've been coaching a large organization through an agile transition. I've introduced Scrum, Kanban and Scrumban ways of working to about a dozen teams...
0 replies - 1197 views - 05/16/13 by Ian Mitchell in Articles
A few days back I came across Yuriy Zubarev's Cynical Agile and Scrum Dictionary. There are some nice, cutting observations in there, but the one...
0 replies - 4605 views - 05/09/13 by Ian Mitchell in Articles
This is the final issue of James Brett‘s 5 Questions. Issue 1 featured Ron Jefferies, Issue 2 featured Ken Schwaber, and Issue 3 featured...
0 replies - 3861 views - 05/05/13 by Kane Mar in Articles
The longer I spend working as an agile coach, the more I find myself in disagreement with Hamlet. To estimate, or not to estimate? That is the question. Out of...
0 replies - 2966 views - 05/02/13 by Ian Mitchell in Articles
Richard Hundhausen has put together a great list of funny Scrum/Agile related videos. Some of these are classics such as High Moon Studios:...
0 replies - 3070 views - 04/29/13 by Kane Mar in Articles
As I’m working with smaller and more agile projects, I’m increasingly seeing the classic way that Scrum is executed as more of an impediment to agility...
0 replies - 4995 views - 04/25/13 by Johannes Brodwall in Articles
When you meet an agile team for the first time, it can be a good idea to do a quick assessment of their health. Sometimes you can tell quite quickly if there...
0 replies - 1858 views - 04/22/13 by Ian Mitchell in Articles
A few years ago Corey Ladas wrote an article about
an Agile approach he called “Scrumban”. As the name suggests, this is a
variant of Scrum with...
0 replies - 1329 views - 04/18/13 by Ian Mitchell in Articles
This is the second issue of James Brett‘s 5 Questions. From the first issue of 5 Questions ”The ideas was to ask five specific...
0 replies - 2195 views - 04/07/13 by Kane Mar in Articles
The insufficiency of Scrum is a fallacy perpetrated by teams that don’t step up their practices in concert with their planning and don’t really want to...
4 replies - 3158 views - 03/26/13 by Martin Hinshelwood in Articles
Here is a list of some best practices for scrum:
Burn down charts can be used to monitor sprint status. Graphical representations are better than...
1 replies - 21269 views - 03/23/13 by Cagdas Basaraner in Articles
5 Questions was a series created by James Brett. The ideas was to ask five specific questions to members of the Scrum community and post the their replies. I...
0 replies - 2157 views - 03/21/13 by Kane Mar in Articles
In 2010 I wrote two articles on Burn-Out and exhaustion in software teams. Since then there were more and more articles of this kind printed in the major...
3 replies - 2534 views - 03/13/13 by Christian Grobmeier in Articles
In a nice tie-in to my previous assertion that the root cause of Flaccid Scrums is a lack of XP-like focus upon technical quality, Allan Kelly has written two...
0 replies - 1542 views - 03/11/13 by Steve Smith in Articles
