I feel like I may need to start this post by paraphrasing a song: “You’re so vain, you probably think this post is about you.” I have had the privilege of working with some remarkable technologists during my career and the danger is that they misinterpret what I’m about to write about. Steve McConnell calls [...]
I promised to write a post about a woman in IT whom I admire as part of this campaign.
The woman I admire happens to be my wife, Karen Greaves.
She has been my mentor and inspiration. She has made a reputation for herself as a superb boss (although I hesitate to allow her to be my [...]
For those of us not lucky enough to be in Orlando right now, the Open Space findings are being captured at:
http://scrumorlando09.pbwiki.com/browse/#view=ViewFolder¶m=Orlando
Presentations are also being published to the Scrum Alliance site at:
http://www.scrumalliance.org/resources?tag=SG+Spring+2009
There has been some vigorous discourse about the state of scrum in the past few months. I’m not going to refer to them specifically.
What it feels like is that scrum has reached a level of acceptance and recognition that it has now become mainstream enough to warrant the kinds of attacks that can build your [...]
I’ve published a little TEST for those of you brave enough to find out what level of scrum you’ve implemented. It is based on Jeff Sutherland’s presentation on ‘Money for Nothing, Change for free’. In it he describes an updated version of the Nokia Test.
I’ve taken the liberty of turning it into a very basic [...]