Posts Tagged ‘scrum’

In the first article in this series we looked at absolute vs. relative estimation, and using an example saw how we could improve our estimation accuracy by applying relative estimation. In this article we briefly at a second reason we use a relative estimate of effort instead of time to improve our estimates.

This article is the first of a series of that will talk about Agile estimation and planning. There is a great deal of information available in books and online describing Agile estimation techniques. This series of articles attempts to summarize some of the available information based on our practical experience and make it readily assessable […]

Thanks to Carol Smith from our User Experience group for pointing this out on Yammer.  In the portal and social world, we have struggled to pull User Experience activities into a sprint based approach like Scrum.  We’ve started down the path on a couple project but Jon Innes has an article at boxes and arrows […]

Mention of the word, “methodology” need not elicit groans.  Without a repeatable approach to projects it’s easy to miss key requirements, expectations, errors, etc.   So use a software developer methodology for your project. Which methodology to use? Frankly, I don’t care which methodology you use as long as it’s not a waterfall methodology.   I’ve been […]

I’ve been exposed to Agile/Scrum for a while and recently I tried to summarize some testing principles which are all concerned with quality. Test Driven Test cases and unit test will be developed prior to coding any lines Unit test will be required to ensure the quality of the refactoring Test Early Deliverables in each […]

There’s a great article in the online version of the Wall Street Journal titled “For RIM, Less Research Could Mean More Motion“. There are a couple of choice quotes from the article that parallel what I always try to share with others when I am talking about the business benefits of agile.

Just a few weeks ago we celebrated the 10th anniversary of the drafting of the Agile Manifesto. To celebrate the 10 year anniversary many of the original signatories along with some other agile proponents got together to review what has happened during the past 10 years and to consider the future. There are numerous blog […]

The Scrum Alliance invited me to write a brief article about my work in China. The article is now posted on the front page of the Scrum Alliance website. Drive by and take a look when you have some time.

Recently I was asked about ‘starter metrics’ for projects (both multi-shore and single shore) looking to transition to a much more objective measure of delivery team performance. Here are the first tier metrics that I would recommend as a good starting point. There is a lot more detail in the webinar and associated white-paper on […]

Robert Martin wrote an article in November, 2010 entitled “What killed water fall could kill Agile” Martin wrote about the elitism in software development. In water fall, the analysts are elites; they define everything in documentation and leave the work to the developer. When a project fails, it is the developer who bares the blame. […]

Story Point estimation is a comparison estimation approach, where Story Points are used to represent the relative size for the User Stories. At Perficient when doing Story Point estimation, we select one small User Story which every individual on the team is familiar with and feels comfortable to commit to delivering in a short period […]

As my colleagues and I have described in other posts, Perficient China has been a pioneer in areas of CMMI and agile. We were the first CMMI Level 5 appraised company in Zhejiang province, and perhaps the only company in China to be assessed at this level using an agile approach to project delivery. A common […]