What are some of the impediments that can hold up a Daily Scrum ? How are impediments handled ?
Filed Under Agile, Issues, Meeting, Pitfalls, Problems, Process, Scrum | Posted on March 5, 2010
Part of the routine of a Daily Scrum is where team members come up with the issues that they face which could be stopping them from doing their work. These are called impediments, and are typically problems that are preventing them from completing their work. Once the team members articulate their impediments, it is the [...]
Scrum of Scrums – a brief definition and some details
Filed Under Agile, Daily Scrum Meeting, Meeting, Process, Scrum, Sprint, Team | Posted on March 2, 2010
What is a Scrum of Scrums ?
Well, if you take any literature that deals with Scrum, you will find the typical team size for a workable Scrum team to be 7-10 people (ignore those articles where it is claimed that Scrum has been made to work with 50 plus team members, since that is more [...]
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 be [...]
What is scrum ? – A simple (non-technical) definition
Filed Under Agile, Definition, Explanation, Methods, Process | Posted on October 23, 2009
Well, for those of you who play rugby, it’s not what you think. In software development, scrum (of as some people like to call it with capital letters, SCRUM) is a relatively newer technique, a part of agile development methodologies. Scrum aims to merge the differences between the different constituents of a software development team [...]
