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Tuesday, March 15, 2005 11:30 AM

StickyMinds article on implementing Scrum

Here is an interesting article on Scrum that I was pointed to by Apoorva Joshi. Alicia Yanik talks about how implementing Scrum was not at all easy for her project. However, things are now running smoothly for her group and she says that while Scrum was
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Monday, March 14, 2005 12:48 PM

"Ideal line" plotted on scrum burndown chart

Hi all - One new thing we're doing with this sprint is adding an "ideal line" to our scrum burndown chart. This helps us see where we're at with respect to our plans, and is nicer than using an imaginary line. Because in Scrum we use 30 calendar days,
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Tuesday, March 08, 2005 2:34 PM

Sprint 5 planning

Greetings all – Well, our Product Owner got the product backlog ready in time for the first sprint planning meeting, where we pick the product backlog items we’ll use for the sprint. This planning meeting happened yesterday & went pretty smoothly,
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Thursday, March 03, 2005 4:11 PM

Sprint 5 beginning

Greetings all - Well, next week we’re going to start sprint 5. We had a couple of weeks between the end of sprint 4 & the start of sprint 5, mainly since we had some distractions like an office move and a whole-team offsite fixing bugs for the main
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Wednesday, February 09, 2005 12:35 PM

Sprint 4 ending (mostly) happily

Well, my dear readers, I’m pleased to report that we got things pulled together for sprint 4 and are on track to complete it successfully today, barring unforeseen complications. One of the problems we’ve had is that our overarching mission timeline is
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Thursday, February 03, 2005 12:15 PM

Continued use of Scrum

Dear Readers – We continue to use Scrum on our project, and we’re now finishing our third sprint (numbered sprint 4 to match up with pre-Scrum milestone numbering). It’s been a stressful sprint. We had a bunch of very hard changes which took much longer
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Thursday, January 06, 2005 12:32 PM

Update on Scrum

Greetings all - Our use of Scrum is continuing, and we’re still quite happy with it. Our second sprint (numbered “sprint 3” to line up with our previous milestone numbering) was fairly successful and we had a lot of good representation from management
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Wednesday, November 10, 2004 1:57 PM

Comments on first scrum sprint

Hi all - Wanted to reply to a couple of comments about my prior entry about having completed our first scrum sprint. A reader named Laurent May writes: "What software tools did you use to manage your sprint development methodology? We are are currently
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Friday, November 05, 2004 6:47 PM

First Scrum sprint complete!

Dear Readers - I'm happy to report that our first Scrum sprint has completed, and it seems to have gone quite well. We had a clear plan of what to do, delivered on the sprint goal (with one caveat), and have done our planning for the next sprint. I really
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Wednesday, October 06, 2004 2:56 PM

Thanks for the Scrum support!

Thanks for the supportive comments about my last post. I am aware of the scrumdevelopment mailing list and wade through it periodically, although I find it kind of like drinking from a fire hose! At the Certified ScrumMaster class I heard about ScrumWiki
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Saturday, October 02, 2004 2:23 PM

Beginning our first Scrum sprint on Monday

Well, it's finally about to happen. I did a short presentation to get the team educated about Scrum (they seem excited about it), and we did our backlog selection and sprint backlog planning meetings yesterday. The sprint begins on Monday. I'm pretty
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Wednesday, September 15, 2004 4:21 PM

Newly minted Scrum Master

I now face the world as a Certified Scrum Master. Of course, I should note that Ken Schwaber practically chuckles at that term and points out that all he's certifying is that you learned something in the class, and he doesn't even verify that much. However,
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Friday, September 10, 2004 3:47 PM

Oil and water...chlorine and ammonia...Scrum and big companies?

Well, my dear readers, I now have a dangerous idea in my head. One of the projects I'm responsible for is a very important but someone obscure effort involving a relatively small number of people. This project has been plagued with many common misfortunes
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Tuesday, August 31, 2004 3:35 PM

Soon to be indoctrinated by Ken Schwaber

After having an interest in Scrum for a while now after reading Agile Software Development with Scrum , I'm finally going to an in-person 2-day course on Scrum by Ken Schwaber when his roadshow makes it to Seattle. I've heard interesting things from folks
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Monday, September 15, 2003 5:56 PM

Feature creep: the bane of big software projects

Greetings all!   Today something happened which got me thinking about one of the nastiest problems in software development: feature creep.   This is when the feature set of a product morphs and grows to the point where it’s a significantly different
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