Comments on: Why Scrum works http://www.scrum.org.za/articles/why-scrum-works Connecting the South African Scrum community Fri, 27 Aug 2010 06:42:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: bruce http://www.scrum.org.za/articles/why-scrum-works/comment-page-1#comment-22 bruce Wed, 11 Mar 2009 09:39:04 +0000 http://www.scrumsense.com/sugsa/?p=112#comment-22 ok, i'd like to retract my previous comments. i have just completed the ScrumMaster course, very professionally presented by Peter Hundermark, and it seems i just didn't 'get' it before :-) Scrum does indeed offer tools and metrics for the "overall plan", and answers questions like "so when will it actually be finished?". Additionally tools to answer questions like "how much will it cost", "how much work can i get for Rxxx.xx", "what will be the effect if i add this piece of work to the project", etc... ok, i’d like to retract my previous comments.

i have just completed the ScrumMaster course, very professionally presented by Peter Hundermark, and it seems i just didn’t ‘get’ it before :-)

Scrum does indeed offer tools and metrics for the “overall plan”, and answers questions like “so when will it actually be finished?”. Additionally tools to answer questions like “how much will it cost”, “how much work can i get for Rxxx.xx”, “what will be the effect if i add this piece of work to the project”, etc…

]]> By: bruce http://www.scrum.org.za/articles/why-scrum-works/comment-page-1#comment-4 bruce Wed, 21 Jan 2009 12:50:30 +0000 http://www.scrumsense.com/sugsa/?p=112#comment-4 i use scrum in my current projects, and it works very well (for me). however, see this excerpt from the article:- It also allows the team to systematically approach the work and start the project without necessarily understanding exactly how or what needs to be done in later iterations of the project. there will always be some top-level manager or exec that doesn't need to know about the detail - he just wants to know the estimated end-date. i always end up needing to maintain additional spreadsheets, or microsoft projects, just to satisfy "their" requirements. in reality, one DOES need to understand exactly what needs to be done, (the big picture), in order to provide an estimation. kind regards bruce i use scrum in my current projects, and it works very well (for me). however, see this excerpt from the article:-

It also allows the team to systematically approach the work and start the project without necessarily understanding exactly how or what needs to be done in later iterations of the project.

there will always be some top-level manager or exec that doesn’t need to know about the detail – he just wants to know the estimated end-date. i always end up needing to maintain additional spreadsheets, or microsoft projects, just to satisfy “their” requirements. in reality, one DOES need to understand exactly what needs to be done, (the big picture), in order to provide an estimation.

kind regards
bruce

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