The Random Musings

I have had a lot of conversation and debate with associates within my company on the following things . . .

Does Scrum need everyone to be generalists?
Can I be a specialist and grow, from a personal development perspective, within a Scrum project?
Should you form teams focused on a specific specialty and hand work off to [...]

I ran into this presentation last week from Lyssa Adkins, for project managers that were moving to the role of Agile coach. It is well presented and she articulates the traps that you might fall into, and what you are trying to avoid and promote with your teams.
Anyway, I do not have much to [...]

Was it orchestrated or simple coincidence that a colleague, Corey Jackson, blogs about keeping things simple in an article named It’s Not that Simple. . . or is it? Then a day or so later Mike Vizdos writes an article on his Implementing Scrum blog called KISS. Keep IT Simple Stupid.
I, of course, assumed [...]

Just went through and watched a video screen cast of Card Trees in Mingle. The folks at ThoughtWorks have done a great job of providing an innovative way of representing feature hierarchies. They even allow you to set the relationship between types of artifacts and the way to measure various metrics associated with [...]

Henrik Kniberg posted slides for a presentation called 10 ways to screw up With Scrum and XP.  If you have been involved with Scrum teams, these slides will immediately ring true.
One change I might suggest for the team work one is maybe get a graphic of people in a sinking rowboat and a message bubble [...]

This week turned out to be a turning point for one of the projects I interact with.  After constant nagging to the project leaders that we needed to get some indication of size for the backlog items that was determined by the teams, they finally made the bold step of educating the teams and requesting [...]