Karmængine

… Stop it.

Good Evening.
A question, if you’ll permit me.
What happens at the end of every single day?
Answer: Sunset.
And, what happens at the end of every Sprint, grasshopper? Something beautiful, multi-coloured, and romantic?
No! What happens is hectic, important, and the most valuable things which Scrum has to offer.
That is:

Retrospective meeting(s)
Deployment of completed work

That’s right. The time between Sprints [...]

Product Owners come in most shapes and sizes. Some of those shapes and sizes don’t quite fit into the development process – and here’s some suggested points from which you can conclude whether or not you have a dud PO.
You have a dud P.O. if:

The P.O. doesn’t come to the Sprint Planning Meeting.
The P.O. comes [...]

Don’t.

To me, there’s not confusion on how to handle incomplete stories – and yet, there is a huge range of different approaches hanging around in the Scrum community.So, I’m going to address some of the common claims being made.
Some people make claims that you have to credit some ‘done’ story points.
Ridiculous. Scrum is not a [...]

Mr. Ronald E Jeffries is trying to drum up support for a certification process for agile developers, because, “Ken Schwaber, co-creator of Scrum, says publicly that perhaps only 25% of Scrum teams get the full benefit of Scrum.”
Now, the real point he’s trying to make here is that his bank balance is could do with [...]

Dramatic title, I know.
The point I wanted to make is that in more traditional software development, you would have a scenario like the human body. There would be the eyes which send signals to the brain, the brain which interprets these signals and controls the arm, which controls the hand, which makes the product.
Now, though, [...]

Well, being Product Owner is a bit like being a head chef. You can either cook the meal yourself, you can order someone to cook it, or you can convince the diner that they don’t really need a meal.
And which do you choose?
Well. It depends. It depends on who is ordering the meal, and who [...]

A lot is written about the three main roles (or only roles, as some might have it) in scrum. Here are my definitions:

Product Owner – The product owner is the filtration and feeder system for the machine, which inputs ideas and outputs a product.
Scrum Master – The safety valve on the machine. Can manage the [...]

I’ve just added a document written by Ternary Software, Inc. to the documents category – you can see it on the right side of the blog.
What You Need to Know About Agile
Thanks,
Jacob