Wednesday, January 21st, 2009
The session deadline for this year is Feb 13th. This year it’s in Chicago on August 24-28.
The conference organizers are looking for more submissions (I'm a reviewer for the Culture Stage). If you would like to present the web site has a page on how to propose a session.
I have ...
Tags: agile, Chicago, Distributed teams, Events, Scrum
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Tuesday, January 13th, 2009
What do managers do when their teams are using Scrum or some other agile approach to software development? The notion of managers as facilitators was really brought home to me by Diana Larsen in a talk at Agile 2007. Daily standup is one of the first places the rubber meets ...
Tags: agile, Proven practices, Scrum
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Wednesday, November 26th, 2008
Who make the best Scrum Masters? First off there are several roles that make a risky proposition for Scrum Master...
Tags: Scrum
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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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