<< Timeboxed Iterations | Series Home | Daily Scrum >> One of the realities of many corporate environments is that you work with a group of people called a “team” but a variety of factors prevent you from actually sitting together. At Alistair Cockburn’s keynote presentation (PPT) at Agile 2009, he showed an interesting slide…
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ScrumBut – Part 1 – Timeboxed Iterations
<< Introduction | Series Home | Team Members Sit Together >> Perhaps the very first and most widely “adapted” practice in the Scrum world is that of the timeboxed iteration. Henrik’s Scrum Checklist identifies four subareas of concern: Iteration Length 4 weeks or less Always end on time Team not disrupted or controlled by outsiders…
ScrumBut – Part 0 – Introduction
Series Home | Timeboxed Iterations >> Last week, Jurgen Appelo wrote an article called Scrumbuts are the best part of Scrum. I followed up with my Scrumbuts are the downfall of Agile post. Ultimately Jurgen and I are in agreement – it is important to be able to have the maturity to modify a process…
ScrumButs are the downfall of agile
I normally am in good agreement with Jurgen, but not in with his new article. The ScrumBut Ken argues against aren’t targeted towards mature agile teams. The fundamental problem we have – in Scrum, in XP, in Crystal – is that teams don’t want to even *try* the practices. “There’s no way I can sit…
Supporting Corey Haines
Right now my good friend Corey Haines has a Pledgie campaign going to help him continue his pair programming tour. Some people may question why they should donate to something like this. After all, their are tons of tales in the software industry about people making it big in short amounts of time. Further, I’ve…
Software Craftsmanship in the Enterprise
On Wednesday I had the absolute pleasure of speaking at the first Software Craftsmanship North America conference in Chicago. I gave a talk entitled “Software Craftsmanship in the Enterprise” which covered the issues surrounding development in the enterprise today, and the steps necessary and both an organizational and individual level to adopt it in your…
Is the Certified Scrum Master Program the Visual Basic of agile development?
One of the things I’ve been thinking a lot about lately is how our industry has grown to this point. By industry I refer to both the Software Development Industry as well as the cottage industry around agile software development. Throughout Agile 2009 and the Software Craftsmanship North America conferences this week, the two most…
TFS Branching Only Subfolders
In TFS, we use a branching model which is pretty in-line with the normal branching models you’ll see out there. It looks like: $/ branches releases 1.0 1.1 trunk Database Managed Unmanaged Test This morning I was trying to create a branch for a release we did over the weekend. I wanted to take the…
A Good Way to Respond on Twitter
Recently there has been a spate of bad stories about companies completely messing up the response to tweets on Twitter. As a user myself I see my share of that. But sometimes good conversations come out of it, as was the case with one of our local news stations. BayNews9 is a local Tampa, FL…
Nominated for the Agile Alliance Board
The official nominations for the Agile Alliance are out, and I’m on the list. My position statement is below, but there are a couple of other things I want to add. There were two key reasons I am interested in being a part of the board. The first is because I am not a consultant,…