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Design is a team responsibility

This leads on from a comment on my previous post. The implication seems to be that in a new project, scrum will tend to result in a ‘design by committee’ design-smell or anti-pattern.

From Wikipedia: “The defining characteristics of “design by committee” are needless complexity, internal inconsistency, logical flaws, banality, and the lack of a unifying [...]

Cape Town Scrum User group – 6 Nov

I attended the second scrum user group meeting in Cape Town last night. A bit smaller than the launch, but still well attended. The format was a panel discussion with Peter from Scrumsense, Boris Gloger (in town for training) and Steve from MagmaTech.

Using a scrum task board for tracking the questions, it started with the [...]