Time left at the end of the sprint? Unheard of. Yet it happened to Jon Torresdal and he asks what to do? What does the team think it appropriate to do? My team is always wiser than me. Bugs - you have bugs? Isn't that indication that you unfini...

[2007-02-07 10:59:00]

Bob Sutton author of several excellent books “The No Asshole Rule” and “Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths And Total Nonsense” (my current reading). I took the Asshole Rating Self Exam today and scored 4, which makes me seem pretty normal. More tel...

[2007-02-06 17:02:00]

I just stumbled across this great summary of Scrum by William Wake: "Scrum on a Page" as Word or PDF files. My only quibble - all the times are tied to the original fixed iteration length of 30 days. I would've tried to squeeze in the more flexible approa...

[2007-02-06 12:22:00]

Sitting or Standing! How should the daily status meeting go? Beyond the three questions – Scrum says very little about what should go into the daily stand-up. There was an entire conversation recently on Scrum Development on this very subjectS...

[2007-01-23 13:35:00]

Doug Seven at MS, describes a variation of on Scrum where they only get Customer feedback one sprint in three. This isn’t Scrum. Scrum relies on getting frequent feedback from the Product Owner (aka Customer). Teams should be able to consult with the Pr...

[2007-01-12 09:44:00]