Estimating in Scrum : Breaking Away From Time Based Estimates.
This blog post explains why for Scrum it is better to drop the time based approach to estimating and specifically the focus on an individual.
Knowledge
Articles, Blog Posts, Books and Quotes on Agile Project Management
Striking a Balance: Let Scrum Die
The war around software craftmanship and the evangelism around Scrum are all signs of an unhealthy, unbalanced state for most development teams. In this article, the effect of this unbalanced state is highlighted and how to address this by introducing a balancing force – an economically viable code base. This article also predicts what will happen when such a state is achieved.
Scrum is more than Scrum
Alan Cyment explains that Scrum is more than roles, meetings and artifacts.
Scrum Master and Product Owner Cheatsheet
This is a simple one page article that can be used to help explain the responsibilities of the role of Product Owner and Scrum Master.
Key Barriers to Agile Transformation
In this blog post, Mike Cottmeyer list of his top 12 things you might need to consider before you start a journey towards an Agile organization.
A Thinking Grid for a Definition of Done
This blog post contains an interesting grid that help you analyze every aspect of your scrum project if you want to declare a sprint “done”.
Top Ten Tips for Distributed Scrum Team Teleconferences
After acting as scrum master for several months on a distributed team with people in six different locations, three different time zones and two different countries, Jon Archer offers ten tips to help get past those inevitable awkward silences in Scrum teleconferences.