Unit Testing, Agile Development, Leadership & .NET - By Roy Osherove
You might have a job selling ScrumP to managers too, as "scrumpy" is an alternative term for the alcoholic drink cider in parts of the UK.
Its cool to read about Scrum and XP.
Btw, it would be nice to see the images in your feeds :)
I recently did a post on this.
www.lostechies.com/.../scrum-the-gateway-drug-to-true-agility.aspx
In it I mention that Kane Mar worked with Ken Schwaber to come up with Scrum@XP
www.controlchaos.com/.../xp.php
I agree. Scrum alone is not enough so IMHO you need at least Scrum + some selected XP techniques (at least CI + Test-first thinking) - if you are developing software iteratively and incrementally.
But in customer projects you also need high level phasing and actual project management to deal with contract/customer issues. Things get more complicated in fixed price/scope/schedule projects and theoretical models cannot be directly applied.
I like to see the layers as PM method -> light-weight (R)UP -> Scrum -> applied XP -> people. So you need elements from all of these.
(R)UP can be very agile if you just strip it down to its absolute core. And IMHO that's the way the creators intended it to be.
See one of my slidesets about this subject here: www.rwsug.fi/default.asp