I just registered online to PDC2008 and will attend the following Pre-Conference session: Agile Perspectives, Industry and Microsoft Presenter(s): Mary Poppendieck, Grigori Melnik Agile development is here! During this all-day agile session Mary Poppendieck, author of "Lean Software Development...

Agile?  Buzzword!  Secondly, there is an Agile Florida? What?  I guess Florida isn’t just about pop music. Kidding aside, there is a presentation by Orlando's Scrum User Group August 19 7pm at Altamonte Springs Fl at Panera listed on AgileFlorida .  The presentation is about Agile...

Over the past couple of years I've read a lot about the facets/tools of agile development whether it be TDD, pair programming, or Scrum. I even became a certified Scrum master, the course was great, Mike Cohn was great, the other students were interesting and i learnt a lot, some of which I've actually...

She looks like one! So begins one of my favourite skits in movie history, the witch scene from Monty Python and Holy Grail. The gist of it is: If she weighs the same as a duck then she’s made of wood and therefore… A witch! And what do we do with witches?  We teach them Agile! What do witch hunts...

As I'm staring at my blank Team System setup waiting for the system to work again, I thought I would share a few Scrum for Team System tips with you. SFTS has done a pretty good job for us (much better than the stock templates Team System comes with) but it does have it's issues and problems (like the...

Agile teams are all about co-location and communication. We have a wall where tasks are posted. The wall is life. It is the source of truth. From the wall, the ScrumMaster (me generally) enters in the hours remaining for tasks and updates some backend system (in our case, VSTS with the Scrum For Team...

I'm not getting it. I'm seeing a lot of posts about " Feature Driven Development " (or FDD for short) but I'm just not getting it. All I see is Scrum with different terminology. I was reading the Igloo Boy's blog where he's off at DevTeach 2007 (man I'm so jealous, Montreal...

I'm always happy when I see the Internet spread goodness, or at least what I perceive to be goodness. Last week or so I talked about the Scrum Witch , a horrific little screamer that we introduced to our daily scrums as things were getting out of hand. If a team member strays from our standard routine...

My co-worker came by today and dropped off something at my desk. He calls it the Scrum Witch. Here she is: She's a crazy one alright (and loud). We've had some challenges getting everyone to follow the daily Scrums as side discussions start happening, water cooler gossip, etc. and 10 minute standups...

I got an email from Mike Vizdos about a blog post he was writing up. Mike is the author of a blog called Implementing Scrum . It's a great blog where he posts a cartoon to describe a Scrum concept in a very acceptable way (see below for an example). It's an excellent communication mechanism. I find myself...