Scrum has long been the most popular of the Agile approaches for software development. But what is Scrum really about? What does a great Scrum team look like? Is Scrum really the flexible, free-spirited collection of ‘frameworks’ that are so often believed to be able to be tailored to suit what works for us? In our attempts to be ‘Agile’, have we forgotten the benefits of structure and discipline? Do we bend Scrum too much to suit us, and what is the impact of this?
The retrospective is one of 12 principles outlined in the Agile Manifesto. If this is easy to do this for collocated Scrum teams, how can you achieve good results if you have remote members. In this blog post, Robert Matheson provides a valuable collaborative retrospective technique that can be used for distributed Scrum teams.
This session is born of the hard lessons learned from years of working with diverse companies using metrics to improve their software development processes. Come learn from our successes and be warned by our failures. This session covers what makes an effective Agile metric, the pitfalls in designing metrics, and the basic principles for using metrics appropriately.
We know that self-organization is a critical aspect of every successful Agile project and we know that it takes trust, respect, openness and responsibility. So why many teams have a hard time to achieve it?
Budget-based project management is an alternative to classic estimates that has some following in the Agile community. In their book “Fifty Quick Ideas to Improve your User Stories”, Gojko Adzic and David Evans, discusses how using a budget instead of estimates can help to deliver better projects.
There are many books and trainings that describe what good Product Owner should be in Scrum team. I have been a Product Owner for more than 5 years now. During this time I learned that there is only one skill that is essential to good Product Owner. I am ready to share it with you together with few “stories from the trenches” that will illustrate it.
MantisBT is a popular open source bug tracker. Its architecture features a plugin system that allows extending its functionalities. This article lists the MantisBT plugins that allows to integrate an Agile project management approach like Scrum or Kanban around the basic features of MantisBT.
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