Tagged: scrum

Discipline and the minimum viable product

With all due respect to Seth Godin, while he may be a marketing guru, his post about minimum viable product makes me think that he hasn’t participated in the product development process in a very long time, considering that his definition of minimum viable product is pretty coarse (and likely why it doesn’t work!). As [...]

Selling Scrum to Skeptics: Going slow to get Done Done the right way.

So last night, I had the opportunity to see Ken Schwaber in action at the AgileNYC event in LimeWire’s Tribeca offices with a friend of mine. It was a great event with a lot of people ranging widely in their exposure to Scrum. I find that there’s always a particular nuance that I relearn when [...]

Selling Scrum to Skeptics: Budgets

Scrum and agile (note the lowercase!) development techniques have been around for a few years now, and prominent companies use it in some form or another. However, I’ve seen multiple instances where clients and management alike will derail the whole notion of Scrum! It pains me to see it, so here’s a Part 1 (of [...]

A Scrum a day keeps the management away

I’m sure you know about apples and doctors and whatnot; I’ve also found that Scrums are just like that too.  It’s a foundational tool for any team that’s becoming “agile”, and a great starting point to work Scrum principles into an organization for a lot of reasons.