Archive for category scrum
The Evolution of Done
Posted by David Bland in agile, lean, scrum on March 11, 2010
Many of you are probably familiar with the concept of done as it relates to iterative software development. It comes in many flavors, from working lines of code to acceptance criteria, and can change from tasks to features to releases. While I agree as a community we should continually grow the definition of done, only [...]
Sizing Up the Enterprise
Posted by David Bland in agile, enterprise, scrum on January 24, 2010
As teams begin to estimate User Stories, they may explore different approaches such as T-Shirt sizes and Fibonacci sequences that stop at 8 or go much higher. This freedom to choose a relative sizing style allows a team to adopt what fits well within their work environment. While this flexible approach is quite useful at [...]
Distributed Video Standup
Posted by David Bland in agile, scrum, tools on November 24, 2009
Distributed Teams need high bandwidth bidirectional communication to succeed, and the organization should provide these tools for collaboration. Luckily for us, Video Chat and Broadband are becoming more and more affordable so this is no longer an unrealistic goal. With a decent Video Chat setup you can teleconference with teams around the world and pick [...]
What will you do tomorrow?
Posted by David Bland in agile, scrum on November 12, 2009
Distributed Scrum Teams can be a challenge on many different levels. In the past, I’ve attempted to explain this by deep diving into all of their idiosyncrasies while citing Jeff Sutherland’s excellent White Paper on the issue. I’d then draw communication diagrams and illustrate how bi-directional, high bandwidth communication is important instead of using uni-directional, [...]
Agile Salary Trends
Posted by David Bland in agile, jobs, scrum, trends on October 29, 2009
Finding accurate salary data can be a somewhat daunting task, especially when dealing with anything Agile related. Recruiters sprinkle Agile terminology throughout online job postings with reckless abandon, however you can still sort through the noise to find useful Agile salary data. You only need to know where to begin. Luckily for us, Indeed.com has [...]
