What's your sign? Find out what your burndown signature says about your team.

by Kane Mar | 2 Comments | 23 Oct 2006 | velocity, estimation, Scrum Artifacts

Profile Burndown graphs are commonly used in Scrum projects to give the team an understanding of the amount of work remaining for the Sprint (or iteration). In Ken's own words: “As a team works together, it develop its own style of creating ...

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Technical Debt and Design Death: Part II

by Kane Mar | 1 Comments | 24 Jul 2006 |

Profile My last article dealt with technical debt and design death. This article is going to expand upon those ideas. In a far-from-academic way, I’d like to discuss what happens once you already have legacy code. What are your options for dealing w...

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Technical Debt and Design Death

by Kane Mar | 1 Comments | 17 Jul 2006 |

Profile At a recent Scrum gathering, Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland spoke about technical and design death. Although the concepts themselves are not new, Ken and Jeff have identified a number of characteristics that (I believe) are original insights. In...

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