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Yearly Archives: 2013
Agile Release Planning Booklet ver 1.08
Here is my latest Agile release planning booklet: “Joe’s Approach to Agile Release Planning.” 31 pages, including a table of contents. Free now. PDF format. Some ideas or explanations are included, but mostly actionable steps. Feedback welcome. jhlittle@kittyhawkconsulting.com
2012 Agile Dev Survey
Once again, agile and scrum are making more progress in the real world. Is the world all rosy now? Well, that depends. Compared to last year, in terms of Agile, I think things are better. Compared to where we could be, we have a long way to go. People still like central planning too […]
Early Warning System
I was giving a course today, and we were discussing: should we do agile release planning at the beginning of the effort? (Reminder: release planning always also means release plan refactoring every sprint, to whatever degree it is needed.) My advice is: most teams I see need agile release planning for a day or two […]
The ScrumButt Test
Bas Voode designed a test with 7 or 8 items. Jeff Sutherland and others liked it. Jeff modified it some. Eventually it became known as the ScrumButt Test. Bas developed the test originally to check whether a team was still really using Scrum or reverting back to waterfall. Or, reverting to what I call Cowboy […]
Kanban Ideas
We have been talking about Kanban a bit lately in other venues. Let’s talk about some key Kanban ideas in Scrum. 1. Do the most important thing first. In Scrum, we want the Product Owner to order the work (the PBIs or User Stories) mainly by Business Value. (Yes, I talk about ‘ordered’, but this […]
Waterfall meets Disciplined Agile
Friends and colleagues (Etienne Laverdiere and Richard McMullin) put together a presentation about their experiences with one project. They titled it: Waterfall meets Disciplined Agile. Note: It is the 3rd slide deck (presentation) on that page. See the list to the right. It is very interesting. It would be even better if we could hear […]
Leading Fearless Change
What is the hardest thing about Scrum? (Maybe in life.) Probably, it is that we must lead change. Getting people to change is difficult. In Scrum, for example, we are trying to change people. The initial big change and then always continuous change. And removing impediments typically requires change. First, we change them to a fully […]
Video Resources
Just added new videos to the Resources section of the website. Enjoy. Most are fun. Here.
Are there Project Managers in Scrum? No (but…)
Scrum has only 3 roles: Product Owner, ScrumMaster and Implementer. Who is responsible for ‘the project’? Well, that would be the whole Team. What do we do with George, who was a Project Manager (PM)? Well, we have to talk to George. Maybe he would make a great ScrumMaster or a great Product Owner. Or […]
Our Favorite Scrum Mistakes
Ah, Valentine’s Day! A day for a simpler love than “love your enemies.” Even the simple love is quite complex. Well, as long as one is not besotted like Romeo below the balcony. Or Juliet above. When one is besotted, then love is truly simple. Other days, it is not. Or so I am told. […]