Estimation by definition is choosing a value using the best information available. The value needs to take into account the uncertainty involved. Keeping in line with the principle of Self Organization, the Guide to Scrum Body of Knowledge™ recommends the usage of Planning Poker to estimate tasks and other items. The usage of Planning Poker…
In a Scrum project, it is the Scrum Team members who are responsible for delivering the desired product or service and not the Scrum. Hence, we should be careful in forming the Scrum Teams. “The Scrum Team is sometimes referred to as Development Team since they are responsible for developing the product, service or other…
Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland played a key role in elaborating the Scrum concept and its applicability to software development in a presentation at the Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages & Applications (OOPSLA) conference held in 1995 in Austin, Texas. After that time, several Scrum practitioners, experts and authors have continued to improve the Scrum conceptualization…
Scrum is a simple framework which believes in responding quickly to changes in business environment and the ability to respond to changes is one of the reasons that made Scrum popular. The Product Owner is responsible for getting the Product Backlog ready and prioritizing the items in the Product Backlog. The Scrum Master and the…
Scrum methodology is being used as a successful Project Management or Product Management process in many organizations. It’s been gaining in popularity over the last 15 years, as more and more organizations realize the benefits of Scrum. But before a particular team/organization embraces Scrum or any other Agile process, the biggest hindrance comes from the…
Scrum as an Agile methodology is currently most popular in IT development teams. However, that does not mean that it cannot be effectively used in other domains. In fact, as an Agile methodology of managing projects, it can be used wherever people work on projects on a regular basis. It can be used in a…
Time-Boxing and its effectiveness A given task can be completed in one of two ways: 1) You dive straight ahead into the task and complete it with no regards to time and effort spent 2) The alternative can be, you dedicate a certain amount of time for the task and try to achieve the maximum…
An Agile coach is consulted by the client primarily for two reasons: They want proactive help, from start to finish, all through the transformation process. The client tried doing it themselves with not-so-successful results in trying to adopt Agile. From time to time there, it is found that there is disparity in what companies interpret…
Jeanette Kelnhofer Deatherage I work for the Panama city Workforce Center. One of our employers that we post for is looking for a Scrum Master. Its great pay and a wonderful growing company. If you have anyone who may be interested in moving to the Panama City, FL area, please have them send me a…
Management guru Peter Drucker once said, “Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.” Great leaders have an uncanny ability to motivate people to go that extra mile. Leadership differs from management in that management focuses on controlling and getting things done while leadership focuses on empowering people so that they do…
