Problems with a Scrum process in terms of being able to solve dependencies on other teams
Filed Under Disadvantages, Engineering, Issues, Process, Relationships, Scrum | Posted on April 2, 2010
A scrum based method of development enumerates that a team works on features on the basis of Sprint cycles, and takes up feature definition close to the actual time period of the Sprint. What this means is that for a typical team that used to work on a Waterfall model whereby the features to be [...]
Advantages of using Scrum (contd..)
Filed Under Agile, Benefits, Development, Engineering, Process, Scrum | Posted on October 29, 2009
A couple of posts back, I had mentioned about some of the advantage of using Scrum as a project execution methodology, and this post is a continuation of that description. – You get a person to play the role of one who ensures that the team is following the processes as they are supposed to [...]
Learning about scrum through a video
Filed Under Agile, Engineering, Learn, Scrum, Video | Posted on October 27, 2009
Scrum is a project management technique, one of the Agile development technologies. It is a fairly more recent technology, and has been increasingly adopted by more companies. There is a concept that scrum is meant for smaller teams, but it is erroneously thought that larger products cannot be built with scrum. For a scrum team, [...]
System Engineering
Filed Under Engineering, Software, System | Posted on October 25, 2009
Systems Engineering is an interdisciplinary process that ensures that the customer’s needs are satisfied throughout a system’s entire life cycle. This process is comprised of the following seven tasks. 1. State the problem. Stating the problem is the most important systems engineering task. It entails identifying customers, understanding customer needs, establishing the need for change, [...]
