Intentional Software - Democratizing Software Creation
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Tracking change and innovation in the enterprise software development community
Posted by Floyd Marinescu on Jun 29, 2007 08:58 AM
Henrik Kniberg last year published wildly popular paper 'Scrum and XP from the trenches' in which he chronicled in pictures and text how his 40 person development team implemented parts of Scrum/XP over a one year period. Henrik has updated his work and published a new version of it as a full book with InfoQ.com.
Henrik's team experimented with different team sizes, different sprint lengths, different ways of defining "done", different formats for product backlogs and sprint backlogs, different testing strategies, different ways of doing demos, different ways of synchronizing multiple Scrum teams, etc. They also experimented with XP practices - different ways of doing continuous build, pair programming, test driven development, etc, and how to combine this with Scrum.
Download Scrum and XP from the Trenches. The 168 page book is also available for purchase for $22.95.The book includes:
IBM Agile Development eKit: Free Articles, Expert Q&A, Educational Resources
Fighter Jets and Agile Development at Lockheed Martin (Case study)
Delivering a Breakthrough Java Computing Experience
IBM Web 2.0 Developer eKit: Free Tutorials, Webcasts, Whitepapers
I have already read the first version which provided a lot of value. I will definitly read this one as well. Again my thanks!
i am student,this book is useful for me. thanks
Hi I read this paper some ago and loved it. What I can't tell is... Is this book an expansion on the original paper or simply a nicely printed version of the same? I went to lulu.com where the book is sold and the preview for the book is a generic preview (guess they forgot to replace it with a preview of the real book). Does anyone know if this book expands on the paper? I would certainly buy it if so. The paper is quite good. thanks t
It's mostly the same content, I just added some corrections and clarifications. And of course the forwards by Mike Cohn and Jeff Sutherland. Many people have asked for a printed version, since it is more comfy to hold a real book in your hand than to read over 100 pages on a computer screen. The InfoQ solution caters to both tastes - those that prefer a free version that they can read on screen as well as those that prefer paying a small fee to receive a physical book. /Henrik
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In the section "How we prepare for sprint planning", you explain the meaning of the "Importance Rating". In effect, this is a ranking, not a rating. So I would suggest just using the term "Importance Ranking" to more closely match its actual meaning.
Good point. Thanks for the suggestion! /Henrik
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