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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 [...]



Mining the Daily Scrum meeting for issues related to the team, organization, etc




It is often said that Chickens should not be present in the Daily Scrum meeting, since they tend to start interfering in the work of the Scrum team, question progress, volunteer suggestions (more like order), etc. All this can be very disruptive to the team. However, there is a catch. What we have found (and [...]



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 [...]