Collaboration Games for Agile Teams
Collaboration Games from the Growing Agile Toolbox is a free e-book written by Karen Greaves and Samantha Laing that proposes ten games to build collaboration in Agile teams.
March 2013
When a Scrum Project Has Gone Wrong
Absent ScrumMaster, poorly defined requirements, inexperienced team, absent product owner, impossible goals. Sometimes things can go wrong even in projects that use an Agile approach like Scrum. The main issues are absent product owner or ScrumMaster, an inexperienced team, poorly defined requirements or impossible goals. In this article, Avelino Ferreira Gomes Filho shares some of his experience as a replacing ScrumMaster in troublesome Scrum projects.
Agile Failure: Don’t Look for Silver Bullets!
In 10 years since the signing of the Agile Manifesto we’ve seen some notable successes, half-way efforts, fragile, scrum-but and just plain #FAIL. We tried to adopt agile methods to solve all types of problems, and many of those problems persist. What are the most common failure modes? How can organizations avoid falling into those failing patterns?
Cynical Agile and Scrum Definitions
Running Agile software development projects using Scrum is not always an easy task. Sometimes you need to take a step back and look at the Agile best practices with a dose of humour.
Simple Scrum Sprint Estimation Tool
Whether you follow a Agile framework like Scrum with its planning poker or a traditional project management approach, the estimation activity is always difficult to perform productively and consistently on the long term.
Does Scrum Eliminate Project Risk?
A prevailing belief among Agile and Scrum proponents is that “a great deal of explicit risk management becomes unnecessary when a software development project uses an agile approach.” In my experience, this is a false and dangerous assumption. Project risk is a hungry leopard ready to devour the unprepared. Fleet-footed agilists and die-hard waterfallists alike.