Posts made in juillet, 2011


Earlier this week at a combined Agile Ottawa/Ottawa Scrum User Group joint event, Joe Little facilitated an entertaining discussion about the basics of Agile release planning. This gathering was instigated by a question at an Agile Ottawa meeting a few months back about whether any sort of release planning happens in an Agile context. Given that much of the Scrum canon just does some vague hand-waving around this topic, it’s...

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Is commitment dead?


Posted By on Juil 26, 2011 | 0 comments

The rate of organizations moving from waterfall to Agile software development practices is staggering! Scrum being the most popular Agile framework, development teams are suddenly being ask to commit to delivering a specific amount of functionality every 2 to 4 weeks. The pressure is immense and committing to something in software development, even for a short period, is risky at best. But Scrum was clear – the team has to commit at...

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There’s this movie with a famous saying : « Build it and they will come ». That was pretty much our thinking for Agile Coach Camp 2011 in Montreal over a year ago. The initial idea to hold the 2011 Coach Camp in Montreal was spawned by Ellen Grove (who lives in Ottawa, Canada) and suggested it to some folks in Montreal. I had agreed to help out with the project but quickly became the lead organizer. Where are they? « Build it...

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