Archive for the ‘process’ Category

Scrum basics – everything but the gobbledygook

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) ...

Scrum Kills Your Plan (but hits your business targets)

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 ...

5 Reasons Why We Are Implementing Scrum

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 ...