Where do bugs fit into your iterations? This is a discussion I’ve had on many occasions with many different people. Laribee mentioned they work bugs as soon as they come in. I believe Bellware told me the same thing. Provost and Newkirk both told me they get bugs prioritized into the backlog along...

Something I’ve been thinking about lately, as I’ve been going through reams of paper on lean, kanban, kaizen and Toyota Production system concepts, is how the definition of done differs from that we are used to in Scrum. In Scrum, the product owner gets with the rest of the team and the come up with...

The "in breakfast there are chickens and there are pigs" analogy is a popular one in Agile circles. It refers to the idea that in a given project there are people who are fully committed (pigs, developers) and people those who are merely invested (chickens, stakeholders). I take issue with...

Over on the altnetconf list the question arose as to where you start when implementing agile within an organization. The first thing to bear in mind is that you probably want to avoid implementing all the practices, at the same time. This is likely to cause you to fail, because your attention will be...

Today we had our iteration planning meeting. It was a long one as we're trying to sharpen our user story technique and are switching estimation methodologies from hours to "story points" or "NUTs" (back to them). We managed to wrangle some ill-defined stories into the standard...

I had this discussion briefly at BarCamp Dallas yesterday. The question came up as to how do I describe scrum to my client? When going into a new client, I don’t. There are a lot of companies out there that are reading about scrum and learning scrum on their own, and then want to hire somebody to come...