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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

Unfortunately, a bit of controversy has stirred up about the trademark ‘Scrum User Group’ which as been registered (or attempted to be registered) by the Scrum Aliance.
They are trying to crack-down on it’s usage.
Recently the Orlando Scrum User Group has had to close up shop, due to infringing on the trademarked ‘Scrum User Group’ term, [...]

Story points.
We recently made the switch to using the story point system and the most difficult thing to explain to the developer was the point of the whole thing. They were used to estimating tasks in terms of hours – a system which was never accurate and lead to utter disarray in terms of unfinished, [...]

So. Recently we’ve tried to make some changes to the way in which our team implements scrum. They came out as a result of a) me learning from the yahoo group and reading plenty of documentation on scrum, and primarily due to b) the scrum master getting certified by attending some CSM training.
We were managing [...]

Here’s an extract from an email I sent to my Scrum Master.
Now, I may be wrong on some points, so please feel free to comment and point out anything you feel I’ve missed or that I’m incorrect about.
Here’s my view on how scrum should work:

P.O. creates stories – with story points allocated. Stories contain a [...]

A couple of days ago I tuned into a free public webinar from Danube. I have to say, it was certainly better than average.
The session was called ‘The Product Owner’, and gave quite a neat little description of the various tasks, responsibilities, and expectations of a product owner in a scrum environment. The speaker, whose [...]

We are using Trac by Edgewall Software to handle our backlog. It was originally some sort of ticketing help system, but is now one of the most widely used track management softwares.
It is a very powerful tool, and that becomes obvious after a brief play around with it.
But the product backlog we have is growing, [...]

So, I have been thinking. Scrum is an excellent methodology, without doubt. It’s perhaps not suitable for all software development projects, but I reckon that a majority would benefit from adopting scrum.
Yet scrum has weaknesses.
I can talk about what I have perceived from being involved in Scrum for eleven months as a product owner. I [...]

As we become faster, more agile, and better organised thanks to Scrum, one can only try to imagine where we’ll be in another 20 years, in terms of software development.
I think we’ll be seeing more web-based applications, games, and Java developments, and less of the standalone desktop type software being created. This seems to be [...]