Archive for category agile
10 Questions for Your Scrum Master Interview
Posted by David Bland in agile, jobs, scrum on July 5, 2009
So here you are, sitting across from a potential employer to interview for a Scrum Master position. The interviewer is prepared to ask you a series of questions to determine your worthiness, but where is your list? How do you determine if this is truly an agile company? Since I’ve been on both sides of [...]
Agile and Scrum Trend Analysis
Posted by David Bland in agile, jobs, scrum, trends on June 18, 2009
I hear the buzz about agile and scrum becoming more popular, but is there any data to support that notion? Are more employers looking for agile experience? Are people searching for agile and scrum resources on the internet? I decided to sit down and pull some numbers together for you. Most of them are very [...]
Chickens, Pigs & Seagulls
Posted by David Bland in agile, scrum on June 10, 2009
Those of you with Scrum & Agile experience are probably familiar with the following story: A chicken and a pig are together when the chicken says, “Let’s start a restaurant!”. The pig thinks it over and says, “What would we call this restaurant?” The chicken says, “Ham n’ Eggs!” The pig says, “No thanks, I’d [...]
10 Agile Gurus to Follow on Twitter
Posted by David Bland in agile, twitter on June 5, 2009
Twitter is more than a sounding board for Cats, it can very helpful for keeping up to date on the latest Agile trends. This is especially true when you find Agile Gurus sending over nuggets of information ranging anywhere from designing the next JUnit release, to where they’ll be presenting next week. While you can [...]
Cut the MS Project Cord Already
Posted by David Bland in agile, tools on May 22, 2009
In a recent discussion over on the AgileSoftwareDevelopment.com Blog, I raised my concerns about the mind boggling need for expert MS Project skills in Agile/Scrum job postings. Laszlo Szalvay’s response was an enlightening one: I think of the top 3 agile tools on the market (v1, scrumworks and rally) only ScrumWorks does not have a [...]
