Twenty six specific improvements – that’s how many I found after attending a Certified Scrum Master with Mishkin Berteig. I can highly recommend the experience. Mishkin did an excellent job working through the material with us and had a number of insightful exercises. He was happy to take advanced questions throughout the class and was […]
Notes from a Tool User
Top 8 Agile Books: Beyond the Basics
Now you’ve read the basic introductory books to Agile Software development and you want to learn more, here’s my recent reading list: Agile Software Development: The Cooperative Game (2nd Edition)” by Alistair Cockburn. Possibly the most interesting book I’ve ever read about agile software development. Its not about any one methodology, instead Alistair analyses game […]
Influence – how and why does it work
I’ve never read a book twice and not since undergrad have I taken notes on a book. Yet Robert Cialdini’s “Influence Science and Practice” is so engaging that I’m enjoying a second read. The book is about the psychology of compliance. How do salespeople (“compliance professionals”) and others get us to do things that may […]
Too much abstraction?? Bah Humbug
In: The Blog Ride – There, but for the grace of God (and the experiences of Java) go I. Ted Neward laments the habit of building: “building abstraction layers on top of abstraction layers on top of abstraction layers, all in the name of “we might want or need to change something… someday”. The example […]
David Weiss: Using Scrum in MacBU
It was great see David Weiss’s post Using Scrum in MacBU. Today marks the official beginning of sprint number 2 for the Automation Team. Last month was our first attempt at a modified Scrum. I mention "modified Scrum" simply because of the cruel fact that I don’t know everything there is to know about the […]
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 […]
