Greenfield and Scrum: A Recipe for Great Success or Colossal Failure
Over the course of the last 20 years, I have been both a participant and a leader on multiple programs that started from the ground up. They were called different things at different times, yet they can all be classified as Greenfield programs. Fo...
Scrum Project Management for IT Data Center and Infrastructure Teams
Introduction
What are the plausible steps and best practices for incorporating a Scrum project management framework into the data center and infrastructure teamwork at a model organization?
The Enterprise Web Reporting pilot project goal was to ...
Traditional and Agile Methods: An Interpretation
Introduction
The systems development life cycle (SDLC) is a conceptual model used to develop information systems with well-defined phases. The phases are: user requirements definition, system requirements definition, analysis and system design, s...
History Lesson: Using Core Elements of Scrum in 1961?
Background
On March 27, 2012, a video titled Introducing Avanti 1963 was posted on YouTube, with the following description:
Studebaker was in trouble and headed for oblivion. The president of the company decided he needed a Hail Mary pass and re...
Let's Try to Do an Experiment
The distributed stakeholders in and complexities of my large e-Governance projects regularly led to delays in the agreed schedules. Business problems tended to delay schedules for implementing e-Governance solutions, in particular software develop...
Estimation and Self-Organization
In Scrum, we depend on the team for estimation. It is the team that estimates the efforts and time for each product backlog item; it is the team that, in the sprint planning meeting, breaks down each item into tasks and estimates efforts for each;...
Agile Support to Testing
January 5, 2012, 1030 hours (10:30 a.m.): A government test organization's data management Scrum team was asked to support a testing effort a day after we had started our two-week sprint. We were asked to set up a website/fresh data management too...