Last night I was writing a message to the Scrum Development list when I saw something that struck me. The bottom of my screen showed me that I had received 33,227 messages since I first subscribed to it. I wondered, what have we said since March 27th, 2006 when I first joined? I then also…
Author: Cory Foy
Developer Certification (ala “Certified Scrum Developer”)
Earlier this week the Scrum Alliance accidently posted some documents related to the Certified Scrum Developer program being released this week. While the documents were apparently an earlier draft, and not the finished product, there were two important points that have been confirmed (or at least reinforced) – the existence of the Scrum Developer Certification…
Tools for Agility and Lean/Kanban Principles Presentations Now Available
This past weekend I gave two sessions at the South Florida Code Camp – Tools for Agility and Lean and Kanban Principles for Developers. Both presentations are now available on Slideshare at the above links. If you would like more information, or would like to have Cory help your organization adopt these practices and principles,…
Scrum Alliance Reflux
[Alternate Title: “If I have to talk about the Scrum Alliance any more, I’m going to vomit”] Yes, I want this to die. But Jesse Fewell has posted some thoughts around the Scrum Alliance that in fact what they are doing is right, and correct, and they should fix the leaks and stay the course….
..but if the Scrum Alliance Can’t Do It, Who Will?
Jesse Fewell has written a blog post called Scrum Is Dead. Long Live Scrum. His viewpoint is that the old Scrum is dead, and that it is morphing into something new. In the comments, Jesse asked the following question in response to my call for the Scrum Alliance to focus on the Software Community: Here’s…
They Could Have Been Contenders
There’s been a lot of talk in the agile community recently around Software Development Practices, or Engineering Practices, being in Scrum. Scrum, if you’ll remember, is brought up around the 3/3/3 – 3 Roles (ScrumMaster, Product Owner and “Otherâ€), 3 Artifacts (Burndown, Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog) and 3 Ceremonies (Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-Up, Sprint Review)….
10 Mistakes Adopting Agile
Want to really mess up your adoption of agile methods in your organization? Here are 10 mistakes I’ve come across with teams that will ensure an utter failure, Dilbert style. Not Reading the Principles of the Agile Manifesto – Everyone likes to quote (and misquote) the Agile Manifesto. But the manifesto is more than just…
Scrum Taught Us That We’re Doing Waterfall
Last week I spoke at the Pasco County .NET User’s Group here in Florida on Debugging .NET Applications with WinDBG and SOS. Afterwards we all met at a local restaurant and were talking about agile topics – the good, the bad, and the downright ugly. The leader of the group, Greg Leonardo then said a…
Debugging .NET Applications with WinDBG and SOS
Last night I gave a presentation for the Pasco County .NET User’s Group on Debugging .NET Applications with WinDBG and SOS. We covered some basics of the CLR and Memory Management in .NET, and then how to troubleshoot Crashes, Hangs and Memory Leaks when dealing with .NET applications in production. Debugging NET Applications With WinDBG…
If You Want Feedback, You Need to Tell Your Customers
If you ask most any organization, they will tell you how much they value their customers. How much they want their feedback. And they show this by having events, or conferences, or demos and show off the latest widget, or plan, or feature to their customers. And then they wait. Wait for what, you might…