Scrum Agile Project Management

Agile Test Lead for Scrum Teams

December 20, 2011 0

In this blog post, Matt Archer shares his definition of the Agile Test Lead role and what he thinks they should contribute to Scrum teams. He says that behind the practical aspects of the Agile Test Lead role, there are also subtle connotations of coaching in this position. In his opinion, it is this coaching element that makes many Agile Test Leads valuable for the Scrum team they belong to.

Metrics for Iteration Summary Reports

December 15, 2011 0

Thom Roach shares with us in this blog post the metrics that he includes in iteration summary reports. The three main statistics he uses are Iteration Statistics summary, Iteration Cumulative Flow and Team Velocity Chart.

Hating Sprints, Loving Iterations

December 14, 2011 1

Short cycles provide us with a wealth of benefits in terms of fast feedback, minimal design in process and increased flow. Plan driven sprints however stress the system, force good people to make bad decisions and is built on the faulty belief that capacity utilization is the main problem in high variability environments like product development.

Lean Procrastination

December 7, 2011 0

This video contains an interview about lean procrastination, which is the postponement of decisions to the latest responsible moment. Olaf Lewitz explains the idea and how it might help larger companies becoming more agile.

Distributed Scrum

December 7, 2011 0

This podcast interviews Rini van Solingen about scrum and agile software development in distributed settings where the team is spread across different locations, different buildings or even different countries and continents.

Using Sagas as a Strategic View of Epics

December 6, 2011 0

Epics are used to get a bigger picture of user stories, but we need another level of abstraction. We need to bring together the various Epics that describe how our solution will evolve to its final endpoint, and how different functional teams and specialists will interact.