We kick off this week’s link fest with sex orgies. Jurgen Appelo’s post on how scrum uses peer pressure in a positive way can be found here. I enjoy his writing and he uses a cool technique for creating a scrum team, by getting them to cook dinner for him. I like it ‘cos I [...]

For those whose wallets can buck the recession, the upcoming Scrum gathering offers an impressive line-up of speakers. It’s guaranteed to be awesome! Ken Schwaber, co-founder of Scrum Jeff Sutherland, co-founder of Scrum Gregory Balestrero, President & CEO of PMI Mike Cohn, Mountain Goat Software Alistair Cockburn, Humans & Technology, Inc. Ron Jeffries, one of 3 founders [...]

I’m starting a hopefully regular feature here where I will be posting links to articles elsewhere on the web, with content about scrum and agile that I find interesting. First up is Kent Beck’s ‘State of Agile’ presentation. http://www.infoq.com/news/2009/01/Agile-Trends-Kent-Beck He has some very interesting things to say about the alignment between agile’s values of transparency [...]

The adoption of Scrum as a project management process in IT projects has been extremely rapid. This is because of the fundamental principle that Scrum embraces is that software development if unpredictable. Scrum uses an iterative approach with short but focused iterations. Scrum formalizes the informal “do what is needed to be done” approach that [...]