Scrum Links - 3 April 2009
After a hiatus, here are some scrum links for you to expand your knowledge and hone your craft.
I found Jeff Patton’s ‘Story Map‘ to be a useful discussion on an alternative to the 1-dimensional product backlog. 
It was also the basis of one of the Open Spaces sessions at the recent Orlando gathering. This is definitely not a vanilla scrum technique, so not suggested for beginners. Jeff’s presentation explicitly states he believes it to be a ‘Ha’ technique (in the Shu-Ha-Ri schema).
One for the scrum masters among the readers: the Scrum Alliance has a run down of a discussion on the ‘Top 10 Organisational Impediments‘. Which will also give you a chance to check out the zooty new Scrum Alliance website. There is lots of content from the Orlando Gathering there as well.
The hot topic at the moment in the scrum community is all about the role of certification and testing. ’s view of the beta test can be found here. I’d be curious to hear in the comments what people’s view of the test are.
Till next time
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