Compasses, Trees and Pains
This article uses a tree metaphor to explains that Scrum is a very tiny yet powerful machine that will not achieve its goal if you customize it.
Agile & Scrum Articles
Articles on Scrum and Agile Project Management
Distributed Agile Teams
The article “Distributed Teams and Agile” by Craig Knighton shares experiences and a model to organize and operate distributed Agile teams. It conveys a simple main message: Agile is the best way to manage distributed software development teams.
Are You a Whole Team?
This article proposes four “smells” that might indicate that you’re not optimally practicing whole-team approach in your Scrum software development project
Dashboards for Scrum Projects
This article aims to bring to the table a consolidated Scrum Project Dashboard layout that could be easily maintained and updated by the Product Owner with day-to-day and well-known information provided by the team. He will be able to get stakeholder and management attention and support while providing an updated clear picture on the Project’s status.
Barriers to Scrum Adoption
This is an article about opposition to Scrum. Most of the challenges in Scrum adoption aren’t technical, but social. Because Scrum makes ineffectiveness obvious and control organic, some people will fight tooth and nail to stop the effort.
Make Agile Work for You in Team Foundation Server 2010
This article documents a team’s move to Agile using Team Foundation Server 2010, starting out with the Microsoft Solutions Framework Agile v5.0 process template and eventually switching to the Microsoft Visual Studio Scrum 1.0 template.
The Short Short Story
Scrum teams often use user stories for backlog items. Unfortunately, one of the most important aspects of a story – its extremely short length – has been subtly transformed over time and user stories have lost their original essence and potency.