December 1, 2010
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Articles, Beyond Agile
Teams often want to write “technical stories” to cover things like testing and improving the design or infrastructure. There is rarely a need to do this. Here’s why.
November 22, 2010
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Articles, Beyond Agile
All too often, we encounter so called Scrum teams with huge numbers of stories,even many projects, all going on at once. This never goes well, and it is counter to even the most basic principles of Scrum, Agile, even common…
November 13, 2010
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Beyond Agile, What You Need
It is certainly necessary to break down most stories into bits of work to be done. Scrum calls these bits “tasks”. We used to refer to tasks in XP as well. Problem is, if these are technical tasks, things often…
November 6, 2010
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Articles, Beyond Agile
Alan Shalloway and I were tweeting about whether Scrum could be improved because it doesn’t include some damn thing or other. Scrum is working as designed. We and the Alliance need to get to work.
October 31, 2010
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Articles, Beyond Agile
Chet and I will be meeting with both the new and the outgoing Managing Director of the Scrum Alliance. I asked for input on Twitter, and have received some. Here, some thoughts.
October 20, 2010
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Articles, Beyond Agile
“Just tell us when you’ll be done with all these requirements” is not how to guide an Agile project, be it Kanban, Scrum, or XP. Not remotely.
August 27, 2010
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Articles, Beyond Agile
Some people have difficulty living up to the values and principles of the Agile Manifesto. Should we improve the Manifesto? Raise your game: we meant what we said.
July 15, 2010
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Articles, Beyond Agile
“His brand is bad: my brand is good.” Isn’t it well past time we got over that kind of thinking? I’ll take a good idea from anywhere. So should you.
Kate gives Dan Devlin, the company owner, an overview of Scrum.
Chet Hendrickson and I have offered to help the Scrum Alliance build a broad and growing base of information relating to Scrum / Agile, and to the many skills and practices that can help teams be successful. Our offer has…
At Agile2011, I brought along a “gift”, a nicely formatted and illustrated Kate Oneal story. I gave a copy to everyone who asked for one, and to a few people who didn’t but who I wanted…
Here’s the current code, and some commentary, for the “But We Need a Database” article. UPDATED: Comments on Python style.