Learn about Scrum – Why does Scrum fail – Dealing with teams working across differnet geographies, optimization techniques
Filed Under Agile, Challenge, Features, Issues, Meeting, Problems, Process, Product Management, Product Owner, Scrum, ScrumMaster | Posted on July 11, 2010
Scrum by itself is normally not a reason for failure of projects, it is more likely that there is a process implementation issue, or a logistics issue that has caused such failures. In a series of posts, I am trying to post some of incidents and examples that I have seen where the Scrum project [...]
Learn about Scrum – Why does Scrum fail – The sponsors worried about the lack of a schedule of features in the overall project, this worry extending to the end of the project: Part 2
Filed Under Challenge, Estimation, Features, Issues, Problems, Product, Product Backlog, Product Management, Product Owner, Scrum | Posted on July 5, 2010
In the first post of the article, I wrote about how senior executives need to see the list of features before approving the product development (the list of features is reviewed in terms of competitor analysis, projections of the direction where the product should be heading towards, and also whether these are features that customers [...]
Scrum challenges – Handling cases where the same team has to work on feature development and also support of previous versions and fixing bugs – Part 4
Filed Under Estimation, Issues, Problems, Product Owner, Scrum | Posted on May 28, 2010
This series on support of production issues and Scrum keeps on going on. At the end of the last such post, I ran into some issues buzzing in my head from what I wrote, and then a couple of colleagues talked about some exceptions that they had to make for production support, and as we [...]
Scrum Problems: It’s the attitude of the people that makes a major difference in the success or failure of Scrum
Filed Under Issues, Problems, Scrum | Posted on May 17, 2010
Scrum is touted as the answer to a number of problems with software project management, being projected as a solution that will help reduce the number of failed software project implementation, bring the involvement in the team in the project to a much higher degree, and ensure that even when requirements keep on changing, these [...]
