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Critical checkpoints in Scrum – Part 1 – Release Planning
Two months ago, I was doing an agile practices review for one of our clients and I was surprised to see that despite his willingness to practice Scrum there was little understanding of it. Even if most of the people I’ve met in the agile community, experienced at least the Scrum certified course, I can see during debates that there is a major gap between how they perceive it and genuine Scrum. It is useless to remind that the lack of comprehension might do more harm to the organization than before the ScrumBut, as described in my previous article Scrum requires a different mindset.
Suddenly all the important stuff we’ve been used to from the beginning of times disappeared and a strange mixture between the defined process control model (old approach) and the empirical
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Tagged: adapation, Agile, burn-down, Capacity, Definition of Done, Definition of Ready, DoD, DoR, empirical process control model, inspection, IT Offshore Blog, PBI, Product, Product Backlog, Product Backlog Item, Release Planning, Scrum, Scrum training, scrumbut, Sprint size, transparency, Velocity, Vision
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ScrumDay 2012
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Wed., 28 Mar. 2012 18:30 (449 day(s) old)
Design to cost - Productivity, Innovation and strategy, Scrum
Wed., 28 Mar. 2012 18:30 (449 day(s) old)
Design to cost - Productivity, Innovation and strategy, Scrum
I attended ScrumDay 2012, organized by the French Scrum User Group (French only), together with Cornel Fatulescu, Director of the Pentalog Institute. Despite the participation fee, I guess about 500 people took part in the conferences.
Personally, I have chosen the following conferences:
Scrum for business teams
The presentation was a feedback on the experience gained while implementing Scrum within a Marketing team whose members traditionally do not deal directly with the concepts of timebox and products as such. In any case, the conclusions reached before method deployment were similar to what we came across when dealing with IT projects: lack of understanding and communication, working in a permanent state of emergency and little priority management.
I firmly believe in Agile methods both for production teams and for business activities (beside
IT offshore press review week 04/2012
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Mon., 23 Jan. 2012 14:40 (514 day(s) old)
Cloud, Innovation and strategy, IT services, Offshore
Mon., 23 Jan. 2012 14:40 (514 day(s) old)
Cloud, Innovation and strategy, IT services, Offshore
2012 is set to be a year in which new opportunities start to rise for IT professionals. Let’s see what other subjects we have in the IT offshore press review this week. Enjoy!
- How to cope with HTML5′s dueling standards bodies (January 17, 2012, Computer World)
- Need an agile infrastructure? Do your homework (January 16, 2012, Computer World)
- Tips for Facebook Timeline apps: Beware what you share (January 21, 2012, IT World)
- Wall Street Beat: Enterprise spending helps mixed quarter for tech (January 20, 2012, IT World)
- Public sector IT staff sees largest cut in 25 years (January 19, 2012, Computer Weekly)
- Four key trends in business analytics in 2012 (January 17, 2012, Computer Weekly)
- Innovation’s dirty little secret (January 17, 2012, Computer Weekly)
- The cloud
Scrum requires a different mindset
“I had difficulties respecting deadlines and products were flooded with defects and bugs, which made it even more difficult when accepting changes required by the customer until I decided we have to step into agile world! In Scrum they accept changes diminishing impact because there is no document to update. The team is self-organizing and more responsible so we will have fewer defects in the end. Traditional development models are no longer sufficient or effective.
6 months after software manufacturing with Scrum, we understood that all this was just good advertising and worst results were just about to come!”
Does this desperate message sound familiar? Yes, too familiar! As a CTO at Pentalog I had the opportunity to meet potential clients with similar problems: “we’ve done Scrum but it doesn’t work for us, so we
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