Blogs on Scrum and Agile Project Management
In this blog post, Sten Johnsen discusses the impact of moving uncompleted user stories from one Scrum sprint to another. He focuses on the unfinished user stories, its impact on the team velocity and its influence on the ability of the team to change.
in this blog post, John Piekos explains how the ScrumMaster and Product Owner roles in Scrum are much more demanding than the Project and Product Manager roles of traditional project approaches. With frequent “potentially shippable product increments”, he believes that full-time effort is required from all members in order to be successful.
In this blog post, Ken Pugh compares the usage of Kanban board and Scrum tracking boards to track progress of agile projects. He concludes that Scrum-style boards and Kanban-style boards can provide the same information, but in different ways.
In this blog post, Kristen Bornemann shares her thought about getting quick results from iteration in the context of the independent game developers. There is a fine line between making quick iteration a focus and getting bogged down in process.
This blog post provides an objective side-by-side comparison of the MSF for Agile Software Development v5.0 and the Visual Studio Scrum 1.0 process templates.
In this blog post, Ian Alderson presents the various changes they made during the Agile adoption journey at his company to tailor the software development process to their needs. He reached the conclusion that “one size doesn’t fit all” and that the drive for the improvements to the process should come from the retrospectives.
A survey says that 64% of the functionalities included in software products are never or almost never used! In this blog post, Emiliano Soldi shares some ideas on how to avoid this and prioritize user stories.