Scrum Artifacts
This short tutorial explains the Scrum Artifacts associated with Scrum Development, including User Story, Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog and Progress Charts.
Category: Agile
Agile Software Development Videos and Tutorials: Scrum, Lean, Kanban
The Power of an Agile Mindset
I’ve wondered for some time whether much of Agile’s success was the result of the placebo effect, that is, good things happened because we believed they would. The placebo effect is a startling reminder of the power our minds have over our perceived reality. Now cognitive scientists tell us that …
Software Architecture Without an End State
Most software architecture efforts have a strong waterfall nature to them. Software architects create an end-state vision with a multi-year plan to achieve it. Of course, the business and technological contexts both change long before that can be achieved. The result is a series of half-finished, very expensive, enterprise architecture …
Agile Practices and Tools
Extreme Programming put strong emphasis on engineering practices to support agile execution and have in practice influenced how many of those practices have evolved. Scrum assumes such engineering practices are being used, without dictating specifically which practices. In this session, we will dive into the most important agile engineering practices …
Lean & Kanban Myths, Misconceptions and Forgotten Principles
This presentation reviews the top 10 myths and misconceptions, along with a few neglected and important principles of Lean thinking that many in software development, including Kanban practitioners, neglect. I first learned about a Kanban approach to development from an apologetic agile practitioner concerned that they’d broken “the rules.” Although …
Who Should Be Using Scrum?
Jeff Sutherland explains how it is becoming increasingly common for Scrum to first take root in a company’s engineering department and then expand out into other departments throughout the company. He says that “Scrum can double the production of anything – it doesn’t matter whether it’s sales, marketing, software, finance …