Five people in the past week have asked me for an introduction to SCRUM. After putting together a few emails I realized this called for a blog posting. First up I offer Ken Schwaber’s (one of the originators of Scrum) recent talk at Google. With good wit and better speaking skills than most of us […]
Retrospective Agility
Four years after I originally wrote this it is still getting hits, since that time I’ve written a much better post: Agile Retrospectives “Retrospective Agility” by Tim MacKinnon (part of a long pdf – too bad you can’t easily link inside these beasts) is a great starting point for running a retrospective. I was trying […]
When to Estimate the Product Backlog
As with my previous post a quick question to the Scrum mailing list goes a long way. My original question: After reading the Ken’s first scrum book and some of Mike Cohn’s Agile Estimation book – I’m a little confused as to when the team should estimate the product backlog. It seems clear that during […]
I was Wrong about Re-Estimation
I’m just starting to learn and implement Scrum without yet having completed the CSM training. I’ve years of reading about Agile Software development including the original Scrum Book. So I thought I had a solid understanding. However putting theory into practice always reveals questions that I’d never considered. Recently on the Scrum List I asked […]