One of the things I love about XP (this is a principle of Scrum also) is the concept of Sustainable Pace. Ron Jeffries aptly documents this on his site in the following text: Extreme Programming teams are in it for the long term. They work hard, and at...

I was reading Mini Microsoft for the second time tonight (I've really never read it) when I came across a post titled Dev vs Test vs PM . This snipped from the post got me thinking - why would I want to work together with someone when I get rewarded for...

Friend and colleague Brad Wilson defines Scrummerfall as Scrummerfall . n. The practice of combining Scrum and Waterfall so as to ensure failure at a much faster rate than you had with Waterfall alone. Which gets us to our story. I was having an email...

There was a post on the Scrum yahoogroup if folks encountered resistance from the company and how they got around it. This is a common theme - here is my experience from my first Agile project: Let me see if I can quote the developers that are now on...