Engineering Practices Not Taken Care of by Scrum – Some details
Filed Under Issues, Pitfalls, Problems, Process, Product Owner, Quality, Relationships, Scope, Scrum | Posted on August 31, 2010
Scrum never talks about engineering practices which is a good thing but this sometimes lands teams into trouble. The teams not only adopt the Scrum practices but also the principles which makes their progress sluggish and results in the code base being in a mess. This is a situation which is present in most of [...]
In the Daily Scrum meeting, why is it so hard to get people to discuss with each rather than the Scrum Master (project manager in disguise)
Filed Under Daily Scrum Meeting, Issues, Pitfalls, Problems, Scrum | Posted on March 30, 2010
The Daily Scrum is a very simple, and yet a very integral part of the Scrum process. The idea is to get the team to work with each other, and discuss the items that they have done, are going to be doing next, and any obstacles (impediments) in their path. These are 3 questions: 1. [...]
A contrarian approach, some problems with Scrum as seen by my experience
Filed Under Estimation, Pitfalls, Problems, Scrum | Posted on March 28, 2010
Scrum somewhat problematic for us This post can be a bit challenging; it was most challenging to me when I started writing it, since Scrum has been sold as a solution for most software development projects. Along with this, previous software development methodologies such as Waterfall, Spiral, etc are slowly getting marked as methodologies that [...]
Problems that are caused during Scrum when a team member is not full time on the project
Filed Under Estimation, Pitfalls, Problems, Scrum | Posted on March 23, 2010
In the ideal case, a person will be working on the Scrum project full time, with that also being the assumption made when the several items of Scrum such as Daily Scrum Meeting, Velocity, Burndown Charts, etc are all calculated. However, there are cases when a team is fairly busy in multiple items and people [...]
