Compasses, Trees and Pains
This article uses a tree metaphor to explains that Scrum is a very tiny yet powerful machine that will not achieve its goal if you customize it.
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Distributed Agile Teams
The article “Distributed Teams and Agile” by Craig Knighton shares experiences and a model to organize and operate distributed Agile teams. It conveys a simple main message: Agile is the best way to manage distributed software development teams.
Are You a Whole Team?
This article proposes four “smells” that might indicate that you’re not optimally practicing whole-team approach in your Scrum software development project
Why Scrum Will Never Work
In this funny blog post, Maurits Rijk lists the reasons that people will give to explain why Scrum will never work. A “dilbertian” exercise well done and that you shouldn’t take literally. Or maybe yes! ;o)
Dashboards for Scrum Projects
This article aims to bring to the table a consolidated Scrum Project Dashboard layout that could be easily maintained and updated by the Product Owner with day-to-day and well-known information provided by the team. He will be able to get stakeholder and management attention and support while providing an updated clear picture on the Project’s status.
The ScrumMaster as a Referee
In this blog post, Dewayne Washington make an interesting between the ScrumMaster role and the referee of a football game.
Barriers to Scrum Adoption
This is an article about opposition to Scrum. Most of the challenges in Scrum adoption aren’t technical, but social. Because Scrum makes ineffectiveness obvious and control organic, some people will fight tooth and nail to stop the effort.