Software In Thirty Days (or less) Jeff Sutherland and I have done it. We wrote a book together, our first joint writing since the initial publication of Scrum in 1995. What prompted us? The question that we frequently are asked: How do we sell Scrum to our management? I’ve always been puzzled by this question. … Continue reading »
The First CSM’s
Many people claim to have been at the first Scrum Master class that I taught in May, 2003. Here is a picture of the class and list of people there. Ken
I was thinking …
I was thinking about New Year Resolutions. I thought about resolving to be a more friendly, warm, compassionate, conciliatory, moderate, and compromising person. My thinking was prompted by a recent email, that informed me: “After all these years, of hearing people talking about you, I defended you. I tried to appease them … maybe as … Continue reading »
Happy Holidays
Jeff Sutherland and I were thinking about what we could give to the Scrum community this holiday season. It occurred to us that a recurring question posed to us is, “How do I sell Scrum to management?” To help everyone with this issue, Jeff Sutherland and I have written a book, “Software in Thirty Days.” … Continue reading »
Happy New Year
Another year has passed. As an industry, we’ve done better. Our customers are more satisfied. One industry source reports that projects using agile practices are three times more successful than traditional, waterfall projects*. Success was defined as delivering all of the planned functionality on the planned date for the planned cost. Much of the success … Continue reading »
Scrum is, Scrum is not
Scrum is just a framework. Use it, or don’t. The Scrum Guide helps you know if you are. Continue reading »
Microsoft and Scrum
I read a recent entry from Brian Harry’s blog on the next Visual Studio release, with a Scrum template and tool support. Brian is Product Unit Manager for Team Foundation Server and a Microsoft Technical Fellow. He also led the charge to use Scrum throughout TFS and has been instrumental in the inclusion of Scrum on … Continue reading »
Software Development: A Profession
Is software development a profession? Continue reading »
Empiricism, the act of making decisions based on what is
Empiricism is the act of making decisions based on what is. Development teams in Scrum “commit” to a certain amount of work in each Sprint, but completion of those items is not a foregone conclusion or guarantee. Perhaps we should change the language used to reflect this? Continue reading »
Agility and PMI
PMI has a big hurdle to jump. I wish them well as they try to wrestle with the challenges of supporting both a predictive approach and an Agile approach under the same umbrella. Continue reading »
