We’ve all been there. You just about think you’ve got your team in a nice rhythm and your burn-downs are starting to look a bit less painful to slide down but, objectively speaking, your team capacity is pants.
You look at drag and it’s bad and getting worse.
The first thing I’d take a look at for [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Scrum’
Handling live support in a Scrum team
Why does Scrum REALLY work?
Type “Scrum” into Google and you’ll get a plethora of articles about Artefacts, Roles and Ceremonies and all that good stuff. You’ll also get plenty of information about “Business Value”, “Adapting to a changing environment”, “Work tracking”, “Process improvement” etc, etc, etc. All that stuff is great. The former makes users of Scrum feel like [...]
Guess what? Scrum developers should be cutting code, period!
I got into a mini debate on Twitter last week and it got me thinking about my views on a few things Scrum. I’m not going to chew over the specifics of the to and fro as it’s very difficult to have a reasoned debate with only 140 characters per point but I thought I’d explore some of the issues arising [...]
Scrum training – getting the balance right.
Earlier in the week I had to deliver a training session to one of our most recent additions to the technical team. He’s been there 3 months and, arguably, I should have provided this training already but I wanted to try something different.
A “good” employer tends to pride themselves on the fact that they deliver [...]
Sprintboard – a Google Wave gadget for distributed scrum teams
A few years ago, I worked in a large software team where all of the tie-wearing developers were in the office for 9am. We had bags of office space and whiteboards EVERYWHERE. One of the things I saw done particularly well in that company was the way in which they used whiteboards to track the [...]
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