Posts Tagged ‘scrum’

An Agile Flash Card Deck

Thursday, February 19th, 2009

This blog has been very interesting. I have definitely not read all of the posts, and some of the flash cards are more appropriate to our workplace than others, but in general if you have some spare time, this is a good set of things to read about.

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Lego Is Not Just For Kids Anymore

Friday, September 12th, 2008

The importance of information radiators and informative workspace is unquestioned in Agile. Scrum and XP have enough visual indicators like whiteboards, flip charts, burndown charts, build status lamps etc. so that the information is highlighted as soon as it is gathered for easy consumption.

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Estimation advice from the trenches

Monday, July 7th, 2008

This is a good article about estimating User Stories.  I think that it is worth the 5 minutes or so to read, although nothing is totally new.

The author recommends a much smaller scale.  Actually just 4 numbers (1, 2, 4, and 8).  I’m not sure it is worth changing from our practice but his points [...]

Magic Funnel for task planning

Friday, April 18th, 2008

This is a series of posts by Tim Ottinger at ObjectMentor. He describes his work at a client organization and talks about the way to manage stories and sprints.

His text is very clear and well thought out. I thought it was good enough to share. Let me know what you think.

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