10 tips on how to prevent business value risk
One category of risk that project teams need to ensure they address is business value failure – delivering a product that fails to provide value for the business investor.
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Agile Mashups
Presented by
Rachel Davies
on
May 06, 2009
Length 00:57:33
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- Process & Practices
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- Adopting Agile ,
- Agile ,
- Agile Techniques
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Summary
It is rare to come across a team that are following an agile software method such as Scrum or XP by the book. Most teams create their own "mashup" of agile practices to suit their unique situation. This talk highlights what's on offer in the different agile methods, where different agile practices add value and how to go about blending them into your current approach.
Bio
Rachel Davies coaches teams in agile software development techniques, such as test-driven development, heartbeat retrospectives and planning with user stories. She is passionate about agile software development because it increases the chance of success projects in the face of complex problems.
About the conference
QCon is a conference that is organized by the community, for the community.The result is a high quality conference experience where a tremendous amount of attention and investment has gone into having the best content on the most important topics presented by the leaders in our community. QCon is designed with the technical depth and enterprise focus of interest to technical team leads, architects, and project managers.
It is rare to come across a team that are following an agile software method such as Scrum or XP by the book. Most teams create their own "mashup" of agile practices to suit their unique situation. This talk highlights what's on offer in the different agile methods, where different agile practices add value and how to go about blending them into your current approach.
Bio
Rachel Davies coaches teams in agile software development techniques, such as test-driven development, heartbeat retrospectives and planning with user stories. She is passionate about agile software development because it increases the chance of success projects in the face of complex problems.
About the conference
QCon is a conference that is organized by the community, for the community.The result is a high quality conference experience where a tremendous amount of attention and investment has gone into having the best content on the most important topics presented by the leaders in our community. QCon is designed with the technical depth and enterprise focus of interest to technical team leads, architects, and project managers.
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Slides from your presentation
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This presentation says that on some agile projects we have ScrumMaster and Product Owner both reporting to a single person like Project Manager. I think that this is a recipe for disaster. It will violate the basic principles of Scrum.
The responsibilities of ScrumMaster tends to collide with responsibilities of Product Owner. The Product owner is responsible for ROI (Return on investment). The ScrumMaster is responsible for the process.
Many companies have the tendency to cut quality to meet the deadline. Scrum deliberately created two roles of Product Owner and ScrumMaster, so that quietly cutting quality will be difficult.
When organizations have a project manager, with ScrumMaster and Product Owner reporting to him / her, cutting quality quietly on the project becomes easy. It seems that this kind of structure is used by companies that do not wish to change, but want to call their projects Scrum.
To retain creditability and avoid going the SEI CMM route (companies getting certification for marketing and not for process improvement), we need to discourage this type of systems. -
I agree with you. In the talk I also advise people not to do this but it's an anti-pattern I see.
Rachel -
Is it possible to get a copy of the slides from your presentation?
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First of all, very good presentation. I also started mashup different agile principles. Where I really agree is using a whiteboard to track the iteration status. It's always a good feeling to move your own cards to a new position, so to visualize your work.
But the problem that I'm facing, my development team is located offshore in India, whereas I'm in Frankfurt. Do you know a provider of a digital whiteboard? Means an easy way to stick notes and move them around and colorize these?
Thanks to all for any hint... -
Karsten,
I remember that I read something in the scrum4you community.
Please have a look at the following URL
scrum4you.wordpress.com/2008/12/19/scrum-tools-...
Maybe it is helpful to you.
When you are from Frankfurt, German should be o.k. for you.
Gruß
auch aus Frankfurt
Rainer
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