Archive for July, 2008
Thursday, July 31st, 2008
This post is a part of our series on rationale for choosing Scrum as our process framework.
You will never achieve perfection. (You will never achieve perfection. You will never achieve perfection!) Thus you should avoid it. Understanding that your strive for total perfection is actually hurting your overall goals ...
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Wednesday, July 30th, 2008
This post covers rationale and practical details about the product backlog. Have a look at the post on scrum basics to put the Product Backlog into the greater picture.
The product backlog is a list of functional and non-functional requirements sorted by importance. It is continuously updated and maintained to represent ...
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Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
I have recently written a few short posts about Scrum without having the decency to set the scene and introduce you to what Scrum really is. That's why I've now made an effort to summarize the mechanisms of Scrum.
I'm making this a short, stripped down introduction for two purposes; a) ...
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Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
Scrum does not allow for any detailed planning for longer than 30 days at a time. So how can you make a list of functionality that will be implemented within 3 months? Short answer, you can't. If you do, it's not Scrum, nor is it agile.
Old style waterfall planning let's ...
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Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
We're implementing Scrum as a process framework for the development of our projects. We're iteratively implementing it, sprint for sprint. Therefore, this is not a post on how we do Scrum, rather it is a post on why we're implementing it.
Reason #null: It's agile
It's so fundamental that I'm not going ...
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Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
This is the third post in a short series about MySQL. Read the first here, and the second here. This one covers this and that and has no set topic. The post is quite long, so I've split it in two (read the first part here). This also hopefully make ...
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