The good news is that the product my team is developing is being adopted broadly within the organization. The bad news is that in the future in order for my software to be used in products subject to regulated enviroments we will not pass scrutiny. Seeing this problem out there on the horizon has inspired [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Scrum’
Traceability in Agile: How Do We Do That?
Posted in Agile, Buzzing Topics, Management and Leadership Topics, tagged Agile, leadership, management, project management, regulation, Scrum, traceability on March 4, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Partial Resources: It’s Always The “Other Project”
Posted in Agile, Management and Leadership Topics, tagged Agile, prioritization, project management, resources, Scrum on January 24, 2010 | 1 Comment »
In a perfect world, we’d like all of our Scrum team members to be fully dedicated and committed to delivery on a project. The reality is that scrum masters and product owners have to deal with less than perfect conditions under which they have to deliver high-quality software. It’s always the “other project” that prevents [...]
The Sprint Contract – Part II: Producing the Document
Posted in Agile, Management and Leadership Topics, tagged Agile, Product Owner, Scrum, Sprint Contract on December 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
As a product owner, I need the commitment between the product owner and the release manager to be documented prior to the sprint beginning. In my previous post I described the genesis of the sprint contract idea based on a blog post I read. I also described why there was a need for such a [...]
The Sprint Contract, Part I
Posted in Agile, Management and Leadership Topics, tagged Agile, Product Owner, Scrum, Sprint Contract on December 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
As a Product Owner, I need the development team to deliver the functionality agreed upon during sprint planning. My scrum team had developed the tendency to quickly defer user stories they did not complete into the next sprint. The tool allowed them to game the burndown so that it always looked like performed well, but [...]
