Can them what you will – Daily Scrum, a Huddle or a Stand-up, but whatever you call it a Stand-up is one of the simplest Agile (and arguably knowledge and service management) practices out there. Three questions are answered by the “core team”: What I’ve done since we last met… What I plan on doing till …
Jvonvoss at Minds.coremedia.com recently did a very interesting blog – A World without Burndowns: The Unified Taskboard. It was an interesting concept – use your done column to replace your burn down chart. Normally a taskboard will look like this: The done column is just a list of everything that the team has achieved. …
When I mentioned to some community friends that I was going to be reading Steve Denning’s Radical Management book a number of them looked at me as if I had contracted some form of virus. “Why would you read a dumbed down book on Scrum?” they said. The answer for me was simple – Agile, …
If a story is a promise for a conversation then… an estimate is a promise to potentially get it wrong If a story is a promise for a conversation then… a retrospective is a promise to follow through on agreed to actions If a story is a promise for a conversation then… a vision is a promise to …
I have been pondering lately what the purpose of a Scrum Master or Iteration Manager is. Many believe that it is a 100% full time role. Some are even concerned that there are formal positions springing up for this role. Here is my stance (and work in progress model) on the role: The purpose of …
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