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Archive for the 'Scrum' Category

Scrum Master in the Critical path of the sprint

October 30, 2009

More then a year ago myself and Eelco Gravendeel wrote the top 9 challenges of adopting Scrum . But those where just the top 9. Some did not make it to the top 9. This post publishes one that did not make it but I think is quite good. here it goes….
 
 
 

“If everything seems under [...]

Coaching the Good the Bad and the Ugly

October 25, 2009

Ever been in a project with this special guy that ‘helps’ the project succeed? This guy, ‘the Good’, that has the guts to stand up to management and tell them how things really are, bring discussions to a good end or has this unique technical skill?
On the other hand, have you ever worked with this [...]

One Metric to rule them all

July 24, 2009

There are numerous things you can measure when it comes down to software projects. I usually see that, if things are measured, the things that are measured do not result in the expected behavior. I’ve seen KPI’s on number of bugs fixed, features solved within given estimation, documents delivered and even hours worked. Eliyahu [...]

The end of the ‘Internet’ testers

March 25, 2009

In the days of waterfall project the testers did not have anything to do during the first half of a project. During this period they would spent most of their time surfing the net and rewriting their test plans. Nowadays with cross functional teams the testers play a significant role right from the beginning of [...]

Prioritizing the backlog on Quality

November 14, 2008

After my talk at JFall about EasyB and Agile requirements I had a discussion with a very respectful guy about some things I said during my talk. The discussion was about whether building up quality over time is a good or a bad thing!
In my talk I stated that some features like for example an [...]