I will be leading the presentation and discussion at the Phoenix Scrum User’s Group Meeting on Thursday, December 10, 2009. Come join us for free food and great discussion about the Product Owner role!
Tag Archives: scrum
Olds and News
It’s been more than a month since updating here. I have been very busy and the blog plays second fiddle to many other things. This is also a “lazy” blog post. So much has happened or is going on I’m going to do a “flash-back episode” to catch things up. Certified Scrum Practitioner The end [...]
Work Stories, Not Tasks
Traditional or waterfall project management calls for definition of all tasks up front. Each task has a “resource” (i.e. incorrect term for a person) assigned and an estimate for how long the task will take. The task and the assignee are logical guesses that will likely come to pass, even if the task is less [...]
Shortest Time As “New Guy.” Ever!
Last week the VP and CTO of my division wanted to have a chat. While not wholly unusual, it’s always a good thing when we chat! Running out of time during the week, he suggested we meet for breakfast on Saturday morning. (Liberty Market in Gilbert, Arizona, USA) When the VP invites to Saturday breakfast, [...]
Scrum Teams Have A Team Lead
Many companies define positions by a list of “Roles, Responsibilities, Accountability and Authority.” The RRAA concept is that every individual needs to have RRAA defined for them so everyone knows what each person is supposed to do. This supports the common focus on individuals as “resources.” (Funny how companies talk about the importance of teamwork [...]
Agile Team as a Product?
James Carr (@jamescarr, http://blog.james-carr.org/) is an agile developer in Missouri, USA. I met him through Twitter and hope to meet him in person one day. A nice guy with usually good things to say! This morning James posed a question about sharing lessons learned between teams: Any quick suggestions on how to facilitate a retrospective [...]
Minimizing Bad Effects of Special Projects
Agile frame works like Scrum define an iteration or sprint of two to four weeks. This time is dedicated for the team to work tasks to complete a planned set of stories. The team is not to be distracted from their sprint or iteration backlog. This allows them the highest concentration possible during the iteration [...]
The Real “Elephant” in the Room
This phrase usually refers to something that is wrong or out of place that everyone knows about but no one wants to bring up. Scrum and agile practices are very good at making these “elephants” so visible that it takes effort to ignore them. But this is not what I want to discuss right now. [...]
Journey to Scrum
It seems proper that my first post on this blog should be something about how I learned of agile development principles and methods. Sort-of a history of my “enlightenment,” if you will. It just so happens that another local ScrumMaster, Chris Young (@tombombadil), recently asked me about my involvement with Scrum and agile. The following [...]
