I read the book “Agile Project Management with Scrum” recently, there are some quotation I think is good to share. If you also have good one, please share with us. 1. ScrumMaster like a sheepdog, responsible for keeping the flock together and the wolves away. 2. A Scrum project is controlled by means of frequency […]
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Checkout Real life of a Scrum Team
You here SCRUM all the time but the question is how do those sprints work especially when they are such quick turnarounds (2-3 weeks). Ethan Huang has a post on how one agile project went. It includes the good, the bad, and the ugly. Worth the time to view the pictures and progression of the […]
The real life of a Scrum team – with photos
Recently while cleaning up my photo albums I found some interesting old pictures which were captured while I was leading a Scrum project. These white board pictures illustrate how we incrementally deliver from scratch. Looking at these pictures I really enjoy recollecting the days when I was working together with my team; days we spent […]
CMMI vs. Agile
These days we are preparing next year’s CMMI Level 5 reassessment and delivered a series of training about CMMI. So people are easy to compare CMMI and Agile when we were doing training. And somebody will say they are different and conflict. How can we implement them together? So what is the difference between CMMI […]
How Story Points in Scrum can reveal more than hours tracking
My team recently received a couple of very interesting burndown charts from our previous sprint, and we’ve had a very good discussion on how this happened. We’re feeling this case could be very convincing evidence to support that using Story Points to estimate is better than using actual hours. Before we look at the charts […]
Shanghai Scrum Gathering 2010
Several members of our Hangzhou team attended the first official Scrum Alliance Gathering in China this past Monday and Tuesday. Two members of the team, myself and Abel Shen, a Sr. Engineer and fellow Multi Shoring blogger, were invited speakers to the event. Mary Jiang, another of our Multi Shoring bloggers and another colleague, Garriot […]
Try Kanban for Ticket Driven Projects
Scrum is the common way for our Global Delivery Center (GDC) to run our development style projects. This has worked very well through the past couple years. While project types are expending in the GDC, problems are found. Take this discussion for example: Sam: How is Scrum fitting into your project? Eddy: Well, my team […]