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Essays from July 2009
5 essays from July 2009
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Stop committing to iteration scope!
This may seem like heresy in the world of “Scrum requires commitments from the team”, but think about it. If your iteration is about two weeks (give or take) and your team is pretty much fixed for that period of time (you can’t really “change” a team that fast), then what else is left? Yes, …
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Can Scrum and Kanban be used for non-software development work?
Can Scrum or Kanban be used to manage any other work than software development? Do the same concepts apply? The past week-end there’s been some chatter on twitter about using Kanban or Scrum for managing work outside the software development realm. People seem (pleasently) surprised that it can be done. But can it really? The …
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Waterfall in a Scrum world, yes it is possible. See how below
Can you do waterfall at the same time you are doing Scrum? Let’s explore the subject a bit… We all know what problems there are with waterfall and long term plans that are not changed. We start executing the plans and see that things don’t really work out as we thought but we stick to …
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Response to critical article on Kanban
I was reading Chris McMahon’s post “Against Kanban” and could not help but think that a response was in order. The post below is a response, in detail to the (flawed) arguments that Chris makes against Kanban. “were revolutionary, because they were software development processes actually created from scratch by people who were very very …
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A feature team needs more than a cross-functional group!
In a conversation with a friend we identified an anti-pattern that can often happen to “feature teams”. Feature teams are supposed to be cross-functional groups that focus the software development process in valuable-chunks of work, which normally cross the whole system (vertical slices of the system).[1] There’s a way in which you can meet that …
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