http://www.scrumlabs.com SCRUM and AGILE Software Delivery usng SCRUM Sun, 11 Oct 2009 16:08:38 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en SCRUM is a management framework. True. Its light - very light. It asks that we deliver business value frequently, in sensible chunks. So far so good - because in doing so we are delivering in high priority order, and if we run out of time then hey - we will ... http://www.scrumlabs.com/2009/10/scrum-project-management/ On Tuesday 13th and 14th January I will be speakng at the Transylvania Java User group meeting. I visit Romania approximately once a month to work with a clients development team that are based there. They are a great bunch of people and one of the Java Developers has been ... http://www.scrumlabs.com/2009/01/transylvania-java-user-group/ My preference is for planning with points during user story workshops, but to change to hours and days etc taking into account the capacity of the team to do the work when Sprint Planning. Mike Cohn puts it very well. http://blog.mountaingoatsoftware.com/?p=15 http://www.scrumlabs.com/2008/12/sprint-planning/ I could not write an article on pair programming better than this :-) http://accu.org/index.php/journals/1395 An excellent well thought out and researced article on pair programming, the upside and downside. More up than down! And some great tips here: http://benpryor.com/blog/2007/01/23/tips-for-pair-programming/     http://www.scrumlabs.com/2008/12/pair-programming/ User stories & Splitting of User Stories Agile methodologies prefer ‘vertical slicing’ of desired functionality wherever possible.  This means building small increments of end to end functionality that allow the developers to exercise multiple layers of the software – e.g. front end through a middle tier to the database and also ... http://www.scrumlabs.com/2008/11/user-story-splitting/ Laugh...I nearly...   http://www.scrumlabs.com/2008/07/a-day-in-the-life-of-a-scrum-team/   Lean Software Engineering - an excellent blog - check out SCRUM-BAN http://www.scrumlabs.com/2008/07/lean-links/ An interesting insight into the Software that Tesco uses to allow them to move quickly. Tesco needs scalability, robustness, and speed across multiple platforms - the web, mobile devices etc. http://www.scrumlabs.com/2008/07/tesco-software-for-the-agile-business/ Daily Stand-up – 10 Rules to Inspect and Adapt! Projects get to be late one day at a time, so it seems logical to have a daily team meeting to ensure you are all on track, to find out any issues that may prevent you from hitting the dates, and to ... http://www.scrumlabs.com/2008/07/daily-stand-up-meetings/ I visit India quite a lot and an Indian friend of mine suggested I create a 'India Agile' Links category. Ok then! here it is. However I will only add something if I believe it is good! If you know of any links then please let me know. ASCI - Agile ... http://www.scrumlabs.com/2008/07/scrum-and-agile-in-india/