Game development is about delivering a multi million dollar project on time where the only goal is to achieve top quality for a really picky consumer. To achieve this we use agile methods to make artists and designers together with engineers and programmers create a software that is only measured …
Talk by Alan Atlas at the Rochester Institute of Technology. The talk analyzes scrum using the seven principles of Lean software development. At the end, it proposed that the root of why scrum works is contained in these things: * One-piece flow * Self-organizing teams * Tight feedback loops * …
Recent work by James Coplien (the course instructor) with Scrum inventor Jeff Sutherland came to a radical conclusion: that though Scrum sounds very simple on the surface, it is in fact painfully intricate underneath (see http://jeffsutherland.com/scrum/2008/02/scrum-and-organizational-patterns.html). There is a well-understood incremental (agile!) path to making Scrum work. Understanding this path, …
So your CTO has decided to go for Team System and some agile process like SCRUM – now all you as a developer has to do is “start your engine”! But how does the reality check really turn out? What support do you get from your tools and how do …
Over the past four years Adobe Systems has seen a grass roots movement among its product development teams towards agile practice adoption. After hearing a talk by Jeff Sutherland, Peter led one of the first Scrum teams at Adobe and has since trained and coached several other teams in their …
Scum is an easy technique to use in smaller teams and companies. Also a traditional project manager can adapt her project to most aspects of Scrum even if the surrounding business in unaware. But what about when the Scrum implementation gets really large? What if a whole telecom organization like …