Scrum Burndown Chart Process by Jeff Suther­land

Published April 13th, 2011 Under Scrum | Leave a Comment

As a fighter pilot fly­ing over North Viet­nam, Jeff Suther­land didn’t think that his mis­sions would one day lead him to be a co-founder of Scrum. And yet, that is exactly what he is today. Part of the inspi­ra­tion for the Burn­down Chart, a vital Scrum com­po­nent, came from his days as an avi­a­tor. Dur­ing a par­tic­u­lar trip, Suther­land was ordered on a recon­nais­sance flight, where he was needed to gather information. For the dura­tion of the trip, he had to use eva­sive maneu­vers to avoid incom­ing attacks from below. He real­ized that there was just a small win­dow avail­able to get the infor­ma­tion he needed; a photo. Later, this directly trans­lated to the Burn­down Chart, where every­thing must be per­fect for a moment in order to move the agile prod­uct devel­op­ment process along. The Burn­down Chart is intended to keep an eye on all of the simul­ta­ne­ous agile devel­op­ment meth­ods going on within a Scrum team. Like a fighter plane land­ing, there is no room for error, and the chart is intended to mon­i­tor such issues.

Video Producer: OpenView Labs

Writing Effective User Stories

Published February 14th, 2011 Under Scrum | Leave a Comment

Writing an effective user story for a Scrum product backlog is easy … if you understand how.

The Scrum Factory Demonstration

Published January 24th, 2011 Under Scrum | Leave a Comment

The Scrum Factory is an open source client-server application that enables you to manage your projects.

Large Scale Sprint Planning

Published January 24th, 2011 Under Scrum | Leave a Comment

This video presents how the Scrum sprint planning day of an enterprise agile project was executed.

Video Producer: Whitewater Projects

Findings from Scrum Pattern Community

Published January 24th, 2011 Under Scrum | Leave a Comment

Mike Beedle will present the current work done at Scrum Plop. This work is based on how Organizational Patterns and Scrum are naturally synergistic, both providing key components to a unique integrated software development framework, that strongly points to future directions for Scrum and Agile.

Watch this video on the Oredev Conference web site

Blending Scrum and Kanban to Create an End-to-End Agile Enterprise

Published January 18th, 2011 Under Lean, Scrum | Leave a Comment

In this video, Mike Cottmeyer blends concepts like Epics, Features, User Stories, Story Maps, Minimally Marketable Features, Scrum, Kanban, RUP, and even traditional SDLC to create a scalable agile enterprise portfolio framework.

Video Producer: http://www.leadingagile.com/

Daily Scrum Stand-up Meeting at Facebook

Published January 10th, 2011 Under Scrum | Leave a Comment

This videos allow us to share the daily meeting of a Scrum team at Facebook.

Getting Agile with Scrum

Published November 29th, 2010 Under Project Management, Scrum | Leave a Comment

Scrum is one of the leading agile software development processes. Over 12,000 project managers have become certified to run Scrum projects . Since its origin on Japanese new product development projects in the 1980s, Scrum has become recognized as one of the best project management frameworks for handling rapidly changing or evolving projects. Especially useful on projects with lots of technology or requirements uncertainty, Scrum is a proven, scalable agile process for managing software projects. Through lecture, discussion and exercises, this fast–paced Mike Cohn’s tutorial covers the basics of what you need to know to get started with Scrum. You will learn about all key aspects of Scrum including product and sprint backlog, the sprint planning meeting, the sprint review, conducting a sprint retrospective, activities that occur during sprints, measuring and monitoring progress, and scaling Scrum to work with large and distributed teams. Also covered are the roles and responsibilities of the ScrumMaster, the product owner, and the Scrum team.This session will be equally suited for managers, programmers, testers, product managers and anyone else interested in improving product delivery.

Watch this streaming video from the Norwegian Developer Conference 2010

Modularization, Testing and Technical Debt in a Large Agile Project

Published November 15th, 2010 Under Scrum, Software Testing | Leave a Comment

This experience reports focuses on the major scrum–related technical challenges that arose during a 120 000 hour scrum controlled project. For each of them, we try to identify the cause and the consequence, and then follow up with any solutions we tried. Finally we sum up and assess whether the problem was successfully solved or not.

Watch this streaming video from the Norwegian Developer Conference 2010

How to Get the Best ROI From a Scrum Team as a Product Owner

Published October 27th, 2010 Under Project Management, Scrum | Leave a Comment

The Product Owner is probably the role that has received the least attention and help of all the three Scrum roles but it is paramount to an organisation’s success with Scrum. While most projects benefit immediately from switching or adopting Scrum, to get the best out of the project a Product Owner really needs to understand both the team and the Scrum framework. In this tutorial Geoff will share his views and experiences of working with Scrum teams to provide you with a number of tips to improve your ROI.

Watch this streaming video from the Norwegian Developer Conference 2010

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