Scrum is Not the Silver Bullet
Thursday, November 13th, 2008A video with multiple people in the agile community has been created to discuss what causes Scrum and agile to fail at this location.
A video with multiple people in the agile community has been created to discuss what causes Scrum and agile to fail at this location.
Mark Levison has compiled a listing of great Scrum case studies for those interested in how others do it in this blog entry.
The “Tasty Cupcakes” site has a plethora of experiential learning games that may be of interest to teams, coaches, and trainers.
Mario
Moreira describes how infrastructure can be refactored in a similar nature as code in this article.
Lyssa Adkins defines 7 failure modes for Agile Coaches and provides some advice on how to manage against them in this blog entry.
This blog entry discusses the problem with having too many projects started. The problems are related to project portfolio management and how do we decide what should be started.
Jeff Sutherland describes to the agile community how Scrum came into being and how it’s roots stem from complex adaptive systems. This article has comprehensive information on Scrum early days including discussion group archives.
This presentation by David Anderson discusses what is Agile, how does the community embrace changes to its foundations, and his thoughts on what will allow us to express more maturity as a community. It is full of thought provoking ideas and potentially controversial methods that are rooted in existing theory and industry practices.
This article on CIO.com is sub-titled:
Agile methodologies seemed like a good idea to this software development team. But when the company doesn’t sincerely accept the change in work style, the result is just a buzzword for “project hell.”