Last monday we had an interesting meeting at the office debating the pros and cons of agile development and especially Scrum. Two weeks ago a collegue and I went to a Scrum training, which means we are now oficially Certified ScrumMasters, and last Monday we did an inhouse presentation about what we learned.
After a long session, I think we finished around 21:45, the general concensus was that Scrum can help us do better projects. It’s not for all projects, not for all customers, not for for all developers, but for a lot of projects it does make sense to use it.
For me, i think the big benefit comes from the fact that using Scrum could increase the satisfaction of the customer. It helps the customer to get the right product for his situation, ie., achieve the best business value. The Scrum process also improves the planning process and increases transparency.
Here are some links about Scrum and Agile to get you started (taken from our internal wiki):
Articles:
- Introduction to Scrum(Written by IT-eye for the Optimize magazine)(dutch)
Books:
- Agile Software Development with Scrum, Ken Schwaber
- Agile Project Management with Scrum, Ken Schwaber
- Agile Estimating and Planning, Mike Cohn
- Lean Software Development, Poppendieck
- Implementing Lean Software Development, Poppendieck
Video’s:
- Ken Schwaber, Scrum
- Jeff Sutherland, The roots of Scrum
- Jeff Sutherland, Scrum tuning
- Scrum boosts effectiveness at the BBC
- Ken Schwaber, Agile quality: a canary in a coal mine
- Agile estimation, part 1, part 2.
Sites:
February 5th, 2007 at 22:07:03
[...] Original post by Andrej Koelewijn [...]
February 15th, 2007 at 10:19:13
For spanish visitors:
scrum site:www.navegapolis.net
November 6th, 2007 at 23:01:47
[...] Both Jira and FogBugz started out as bug databases, but have become full project management tools. The newest version of FogBugz has a feature called Evidence Based Scheduling, which calculates the probability of meeting deadlines, based on past programmer performances. And Jira can be used for Scrum planning using the greenhopper plugin. GreenHopper adds a planning board, taskboard, and burndown charts to Jira. [...]