Scrum Success in a Distributed Team Environment
In today’s work environments, research proves that distributed Scrum teams can achieve the same quality results as collocated teams, but relationships, communication and culture play important roles in the latter.
About Scrum
Since its inc...
How I Stole an Office and Fixed Our Daily Scrum
As I mentioned in my last article, I'm new to Scrum, and the journey to implement Scrum has had its challenges and rewards. After using Scrum for a month or so, I started to see a deficiency; we weren't having productive Daily Scrums. So, I dec...
How to Sustain Adaptive Planning
Scrum and other agile methods recognize that responsiveness to change is an important aspect of delivering projects. They also recognize that software development is evolutionary and creative. By managing changes through Adaptive planning, Scrum p...
Why Go Agile—Why Should I Embrace Change?
Has someone in your organization taken time to explain to you why you should embrace Agile? Ask yourself, why would "I" as a CIO/ Business Stakeholder / Developer/QA/BA implement Agile? Teamwork is very key in any organization; however, at the end...
Can Scrum Support Six Sigma?
Can Scrum Support Six Sigma?
By Heitor Roriz Filho, MSc, CSP
Certified Scrum Trainer and Agile Coach
Rally Software partner for Latin America
hroriz@gmail.com
INTRODUCTION
This article discusses briefly how Scrum could support Six Si...
What does a ScrumMaster do?
What does a ScrumMaster do?
Dr. German Sakaryan CSP, CSM
As a ScrumMaster, I was asked this question many times. Sometimes I had enough time to explain, sometimes not. But every time it was challenging to provide a clear picture of what a ScrumM...
Power of the Post-it
When is a Post-it more than just a Post-it? When it becomes the basis for an easy-to-update taskboard for a non-development Scrum team. Read the rest of the story...