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Do Scrum of Scrums meetings add value to the project – Part 1




One of the most confusing meetings for new entrants to Scrum is the Scrum of Scrums meeting. For a lot of people, there is no clear understanding about why this meeting is held, who are the participants, frequency, agenda, etc. I have been through a couple of trainings and those did not really cover the [...]



Expanding the Scrum process to a larger team, some problems ..




We were successfully running Scrum on a team that was just at the appropriate size, with around 8 people in the team, all well trained in Scrum and believing in the way forward being Scrum. They understood how to use Scrum, and had developed a nice understanding with the managers of the team to ensure [...]



Scrum – Provides you a good quick feedback on accuracy of estimates for tasks ..




One of the major dependencies for a successful project schedule is in terms of the accuracy of estimates versus the reality. In short, you want to measure the difference between the time estimate for a project (or a task inside the project), and the actual effort needed. For such a measurement, you would want to [...]



Distributed Scrum: Mistake to have only the Product Owner in a separate location




Given the bad economy and the relentless surge to reduce costs, there is a lot more focus to see how all the costs involved in a software project can be reduced. Over the past couple of decades, a model where the development work moves to lower cost countries such as Romania, India, China, Philippines, etc [...]