Migrating from Scrum to Scrumban – an Experience Report from a Kanban Virgin

Published June 10th, 2010 Under Project Management | Leave a Comment

Last year one of my client teams was looking for a better way to work following some problems while running fairly standard Scrum. One change appeared to be to combine Scrum with kanban – “Scrumban”. So we jointly decided to give it a go. This experience report explains how the team did it. It should help anyone interested in evolving their Scrum and other timeboxed iterative process to an interesting alternative. The talk will cover:
* Why evolve? A summary of how the team was working and the issues they were seeing.
* Practical observations of how using kanban changes timeboxed iterative develop process
* Some of the questions that you will need to address when you change
* Some concrete solutions to those questions Where next? Possible directions for further evolution.

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Why Is Scrum So Hard?

Published May 19th, 2010 Under Project Management | Leave a Comment

Jens Østergaard gives an introduction to Scrum and talks about why is Scrum so hard.

Video producer: San Francisco Agile User Group

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* Five Symptoms of Mechanical Agile
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Professional Scrum Developer Introduction

Published April 21st, 2010 Under Project Management | Leave a Comment

Sam Guckenheimer and Ken Schwaber discuss the new Professional Scrum Developer program offered by Scrum.org.

Agile Tips – Kanban and Support teams

Published April 14th, 2010 Under Project Management | Leave a Comment

How to use Kanban practices for Scrum teams that support existing products and receive a lot of urgent requests during a sprint

Jeff Patton on User Centered Design and Story Mapping

Published April 12th, 2010 Under Project Management | Leave a Comment

Jeff Patton describes the different ways Agile teams deal with users and then digs in deep into story mapping – a technique that is more information rich than a simple backlog.

http://www.infoq.com/interviews/patton-story-map

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