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August 6th, 2006 at 11:03 pm
[...] Probably the best place to get a thorough grounding in Scrum is — big surprise, an ongoing conversation — the Scrum discussion group. Tobias Mayer, one of the more active members of the group, recently wrote an article, “What is Scrum,” in which he talks about Scrum from a qualitative perspective. He wrote it as a salve against market devaluation of the terms used to describe Scrum. I think what he’s written is a start towards summarizing Scrum’s underlying concepts (either of Schwaber’s slender volumes on Scrum would be a digestable suvey of this as well), but there’s not much about what process there is in Scrum in his article. [...]
March 30th, 2007 at 9:23 am
[...] There are of course a wide range of agile methods available and plenty of consultants and training companies out there promoting them. However, I fear that too often the way agile methods are employed, on the ground, is more akin to a sequence of mini waterfalls. That is there is a tendency, within each iteration, to lead with design (often creating Photoshop files) before coding up the application based on those designs. I suspect that this often happens for a number of reasons, including: [...]