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 man (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 a (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 n (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!" Alw (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 (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 (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 d (Read More)
Henrik Kniberg's blog:
Here is a detailed example of a fairly typical 2-tier Kanban board, for teams that know the basics of Kanban and are taking their first steps towards implementing it in practice.It is sort of like a code example. Print it out (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-ri (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 (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 reu (Read More)
ScrumAlliance:
The agile methods, such as Scrum and Extreme Programming (XP), have been a topic of muchdiscussion in the software community over the last few years. While the proponents of the agilemethods have articulated convincing argume (Read More)
Mike Cohn's Blog - Succeeding With Agile?:
None of the agile processes as described by their originators is perfect for your organization. Any may be a good starting point, but you will need to tailor the process to more precisely fit the unique circumstances of your (Read More)
Agile Software Development blogs:
Introduction Based on a recent post on yahoo forums, seems like there may still be confusion out there as to what the differences are between these two roles. Questions like, is there overlap? can the Product Manager take on (Read More)
Mike Cohn's Blog - Succeeding With Agile?:
A big part of an organization’s becoming agile is finding the appropriate balance between anticipation and adaptation, as Jim Highsmith wrote in Agile Software Development Ecosystems. The following figure shows this balance a (Read More)
Agile Advice - Working With Agile Methods (Scrum, XP, Lean):
Due to popular demand, we have added another Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) training to our listing of courses. There is an overwhelming need for well trained Product Owners, and we’re happy to take up the challeng (Read More)
Mike Cohn's Blog - Succeeding With Agile?:
Succeeding with Agile: Software Development using Scrum is now shipping. To celebrate, I will be giving a copy of the book to two readers of this blog. To win, enter as a comment to this post the one most valuable bit of advi (Read More)
Scrum Breakfast:
Scrum Breakfast in November The Challenge: Raise your release tempo from 2 to 4 releases per year, with out changing the quantity of functionality. The applications remain complex. Modifications and renovations must still be (Read More)