Several months ago our software team decided to dive into the Scrum process. What we were doing before that simply wasn't working. The project had unstable delivery dates and we knew something needed to change. Fast forward about four months and we're going to take a shot at using Kanban and...
This week, I was reading " Agile Principles, Patterns, and Practices in C# " by Robert Martin. In one of the early chapters, he talks a bit about Scrum, and mentions that working overtime (excepting the week of the release sprint) is a big antipattern. Now, I've been on a team that practiced...
When I first graduated from college I worked on embedded systems where the process was a formal, military grade process. When developing software I typically thought about what document I had to write next and what document(s) I may be missing. In general, the MIL standards turned me off...
We finished our second sprint today. In fact, I just left the Sprint Retrospective Meeting (which was actually quite brief). We've been very lucky to have a client that insisted on using Scrum to manage the project. Before this I only had a cursory knowledge of Scrum. We are a small shop, and while...