Comments on: Scrum in a Nutshell or 5 minutes to learn scrum

By: Mishkin Berteig

Mishkin Berteig — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Mark,

Great summary. You might want to add the size of the timeboxes for the meetings… 1hr/week of Sprint length for the review and retrospective and 2hr/week of Sprint length for the planning meeting.

By: Tatiana

Tatiana — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Hi, thanks for summary :) Just the clear basics in a very understandable form! Could you please give some advices on what tools can be good for managing backlogs and planning sprints? Something easy to use, cause we’re just tasting Scrum and just starting to use it.

By: Mark Levison

Mark Levison — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Tatiana – thanks for the comment. The best tools for practicing scrum are a corkboard, index cards and a pen. Software tracking tools are best avoided until you discover something that the above doesn’t solve for you. This just reminds me to write a post “Why corkboards are better than web pages”. The best place to discuss scrum and its practice is the scrumdevelopment mailing list on yahoo groups. Search through the archives and you will find some detailed answers to your questions.

Good luck and we look forward to seeing you on the mailing list.

By: Kelly Waters

Kelly Waters — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Great post Mark! Really clear and concise overview; very useful…

Kelly Waters
http://www.allaboutagile.com

By: Mathew Heusser

Mathew Heusser — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Hi Mark. I like what you’re doing with scrum, and I second all the folks who say that it just isn’t that hard. It’s amazing what you can do with low overhead if you have small teams that do things in a way that complies with the sort of “creative chaos” of development, instead of against it.

That said, thanks for the comments on my blog – you didn’t leave an email address, so please, shoot me an email – matt at xndev dot com.

One of the possibilities for What Works In Software Testing is to run it in the Toronto area in 2008. Not quite Ottowa, but it’s better, right. :-)

–heusser

By: PHenry

PHenry — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

I just wrote an Agile article based off of what you wrote in this one. Thanks for your insight! :>

http://www.pchenry.com/Home/tabid/36/EntryID/56/Default.aspx

By: Sharp Blue

Sharp Blue — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

The Carnival of Software Development, number 1

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By: Jason Haley

Jason Haley — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

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