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ScrumGathering '07
Posted by wwake on June 5, 2007 at 4:08 AM PDT
The last ScrumGathering was held in Portland, OR, May 7-11.
On Tuesday, Mike Cohn and I taught a course centered around a series of case studies. Wednesday and Thursday were Open Space sessions.
The overall site for the Gathering is here".
Stories for SideReel.com
Posted by wwake on May 10, 2007 at 7:21 AM PDT
William Pietri provided a list of the user stories his team used in creating sidereel.com.
Schools of Software Testing
Posted by wwake on March 22, 2007 at 5:34 PM PDT
I ran across an interesting talk by Brett Pettichord: "Schools of
Software Testing":
http://www.io.com/%7Ewazmo/papers/four_schools.pdf
CFP - Tabletop 2007
Posted by wwake on March 6, 2007 at 6:04 PM PST
Call For Participation
The Second IEEE International Workshop on Horizontal Interactive Human-Computer
System (Tabletop2007)
Newport, Rhode Island, USA, October 10-12, 2007.
Held in conjunction with ACM UIST 2007
http://www.ieeetabletop2007.org/
Supported by IEEE
The use of the tabletop as an input/output device is an exciti
Project portfolios and agile
Posted by wwake on March 5, 2007 at 5:14 AM PST
Project management from a portfolio or stage-gate perspective (including how agile development fits in): "Rockets, Cars and Gardens: Visualizing waterfall, agile and stage gate."
Leadership Reading List
Posted by wwake on January 30, 2007 at 4:59 PM PST
Tom Mellor, Alan Shalloway, Bob Schatz, and I put together a reading list on leadership, available on the ScrumAlliance web site.
Using actuals with estimates - an experiment
Posted by wwake on December 15, 2006 at 4:48 AM PST
I work with a group that's been estimating in pair hours for a while. We'll describe a story, everybody will write their estimate on a card, somebody collects the estimates, and we make an overall estimate. (The tricky part is that an estimate needs to include the tasks that aren't yet known but that will be discovered.)
We also track actuals.
Set-Based Concurrent Engineering
Posted by wwake on December 3, 2006 at 7:54 PM PST
Just a pointer to an article I created, exploring lean product development and how set-based concurrent engineering relates to software.
ScrumGathering '06, Open Space
Posted by wwake on November 16, 2006 at 7:06 PM PST
The fall ScrumGathering is in Minneapolis, MN, this week. I'm here for the two-day open space and the trainer's meeting.
Groups are using http://scrumalliance.pbwiki.com as the conference proceedings.
Alistair Cockburn article on improving bottlenecks
Posted by wwake on November 11, 2006 at 6:46 AM PST
"Two Case Studies Motivating Efficiency as a "Spendable" Quantity", by Alistair Cockburn.
A bottleneck limits the rate of production of a system. Clearly we want to improve its performance. But what should we do about non-bottlenecks?
