Archive for October, 2008
Tuesday, October 28th, 2008
As you might have noticed there have been slightly fewer blog posts in October. Why? Well I've been writing elsewhere and putting the finishing touches to a white paper on distributed agile development and our approach to it at patterns & practices. Distributed Agile Development at Microsoft patterns & ...
Tags: agile, Distributed teams, Events
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Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008
In case anyone was wondering where I've been I just got back from a brief vacation in Washington DC. My family live in the UK so the east coast is a convenient middle point. Every year or so we try to pick a new city an meet up. This year ...
Tags: Travel, Washington DC
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Friday, October 17th, 2008
This is not a set of roles on your scrum team. It's a taxonomy of behaviors that could apply to anyone on your team regardless of the role they may be filling. Examples of this include:
Product owners who behave like Cows or even Seagulls as they rush about juggling multiple ...
Tags: agile, Scrum
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Thursday, October 16th, 2008
Rounding out the Scrum Bestiary with its original two protagonists... the pig and now the chicken. Both the pig and the chicken come from Jeff Sutherland's original sketch about who does what in a Scrum standup meeting.
Chicken's don't contribute to your team's goals in any way. They're hangers on who ...
Tags: agile, Scrum
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Wednesday, October 15th, 2008
Rounding out the Scrum Bestiary with its original two protagonists... the chicken and now the pig. Both the pig and the chicken come from Jeff Sutherland's original sketch about who does what in a Scrum daily standup meeting.
Pigs are the heart of Scrum. They're the ones who actually do all ...
Tags: agile, Scrum
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