Scrum Breakfast:
Yesterday it was my privilege and honor to give the keynote speech at the 6th Italian Agile Day. 400 Agilists gathered at the Savoia in Bologna to share their experiences. And there were even curious skeptics from company management, who wanted to find out about about Agile and whether it could help their problems. Lots of (Read More)
Agile Software Development blogs:
IntroductionI may have blogged about this previously. I have written so many blogs, I can't recall any more. However questions regarding Sprint length surface on the forums regularly.As per usual, the answers one must give always depends on the context and every context is different than the next. So let me start with the (Read More)
Mike Cohn's Blog - Succeeding With Agile?:
Historically, when an organization needed to change, it undertook a “change program.” The change was designed, had an identifiable beginning and ending, and was imposed from above. This worked well in an era when change was necessary only once every few years. But in today’s fast-paced, ever changing environment, it makes m (Read More)
ScrumAlliance:
A Checklist of Questions to Consider Before Starting a Large-Scale Agile Adoption
By Ramesh R. Donnipadu, Bala Kishore, Pete Deemer
Abstract
The ability to deliver business value earlier and more often, increase productivity, and improve employ... (Read More)
Henrik Kniberg's blog:
Here the the slides from my presentation "Kanban and Scrum - a practical guide" from QCon in San Francisco today. Great feedback! 77 green notes, 7 yellow, 0 red. Someone even wrote "there should have been a greener one!" Always fun with an enthusiastic audience, thanks everyone :o)Take-away points: Know your goal (Read More)
All About Agile:
Mike Cottmeyer recently wrote an interesting article about whether or not managers can lead agile teams? Organisations do need managers, for a wide variety of reasons. And let's face it, the roles of Product Owner and Scrum Master are management roles.They may not be management roles in the traditional sense, but managemen (Read More)
Agile Advice - Working With Agile Methods (Scrum, XP, Lean):
There is a book review of “Becoming Agile” by Smith and Sidky on Slashdot. I haven’t read the book (yet) so I can’t comment on the book nor on the review. However, I did want to comment on the comments of Slashdot users. Their experience with agile methods seems to be terrible. Either that or they are incredibly ign (Read More)
Agile Software Development blogs:
I was asked recently to answer 5 questions about agile project management for a feature on PM Boulevard. I thought you might appreciate seeing them here too...1. How has the Agile practice evolved over the last two years?I don’t personally think that agile practices have particularly changed in the last two years, however (Read More)
All About Agile:
I'm delighted that Agile Software Development Made Easy! has been shortlisted again in this year's Computer Weekly blog awards.Computer Weekly is one of the original trade magazines for IT professionals, so it's quite an honour to be highlighted by such an important brand.There are some other really good blogs in the shortl (Read More)
Scrum Log Jeff Sutherland:
Join the Agile Boston user group as we GIVE THANKS FOR SCRUM on the day before Thanksgiving, 11/25, at the Microsoft facility in Waltham Massachusetts from 12:30 - 5:30 pm.This is your fun, informative, convenient, content-rich, no-empty-calories, 100% Scrum-centric Boston agile community event. We put it together for your (Read More)
Scrum Log Jeff Sutherland:
The presentations below make a good introductory workshop on Scrum. All slides and reference papers are provided.AgilePalooza, Charlotte, NC, 13-14 Aug 2009Day 1 – Wells Fargo KEYNOTE 8:45 – 9:45 amAgile Software Development in the EnterpriseJeff Sutherland, Ph.D.Scrum started in small companies and achieved dramatic result (Read More)
Mike Cohn's Blog - Succeeding With Agile?:
Wow. You posted nearly 200 bits of advice in response to the contest to provide your one best tip for “succeeding with agile.” Everybody here is wonderful and we generated a pile of great advice for anyone stumbling across the post. I feel like I could just print the comments page and have a whole new book out of it.I promi (Read More)
Mike Cohn's Blog - Succeeding With Agile?:
With most organizational change, after someone figures out the right or best way to do something, that way of doing it is captured as a “best practice” and shared with everyone else. For some types of work, collecting and reusing best practices is a tremendous aid to the change effort. An organization that is selling a prod (Read More)
All About Agile:
Hi all. This is a guest blog post by Richard Revis from The Plan Is..."Agile project management can be hard to implement successfully because even once you have good practices in place the way projects are run can revert to the old methodology quickly. I would like to share three reasons that I have come across for the rea (Read More)
Agile Advice - Working With Agile Methods (Scrum, XP, Lean):
Berteig Consulting is thrilled to announce the early release of the OpenAgile Primer, version 1.0, now available for download at http://www.openagile.com/TheOpenAgilePrimer. This release falls 2 weeks ahead of the scheduled release date of 1 December 2009 thanks in large part to the implementation of OpenAgile itself i (Read More)