<< Team Members Sit Together | Series Home | Sprint Planning Meetings / Sprint Backlog >> The most visible – and often most abused – part of Scrum is the Daily Scrum, also known as the “Stand-Up”. In this meeting, the whole team meets with the participants answering three questions: What did I do yesterday?…
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ScrumBut – Part 2 – Team members sit together
<< 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…
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…