Scrum Guidelines

Posted on 30, Dec 2011

While being in agile transition, teams look for information how to do agile correctly. Often the question sounds ’How to DO agile?‘ The guideline we prepared might be helpful to shorten your transfromation period and stabilize agile environment earlier. Download full paper as PDF from http://www.scrumdesk.com/Download/Documents/AgileResources/ScrumGuidelines.pdf Scrum Guidelines View more documents from ScrumDesk

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Agile adaption gaps identification

Posted on 17, Aug 2011

Doing agile are many obstacles identified. It is not easy to check what does well implemented agile means. A scale of changes that agile transition has brought is often big and related to more areas – to product,  project, leadership, team, tools, development practices and organization as well. The question asked by teams is “How [...]

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Using Yammer?

Posted on 27, Jul 2011

An email integration (to be available in the next version) allows all customers using Yammer (free private social network for companies) to share changes through it. All it is necessary is to put an email address into CC field of email configuration: post to network networkname@yammer.com post to group      <groupname>+networkname@yammer.com post to team [...]

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Scrum Glossary – Scrum Roles

Posted on 30, Jun 2011

Pig & chicken Metaphor that helps to distinguish people actively involved in development of the product and people who should not interrupt the team iteration. Product Owner Father of the product. Responsible for product success. Providing vision to team. Communication channel between the team, stakeholders and customers. Responsible for: product requirements, prioritization, stakeholders management driving [...]

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Start agile transition of your teams correctly with The Drawing Game

Posted on 10, Jun 2011

Transition of teams to agile is always challenging. People have expectations, habits and beliefs about Agile. We worked with teams they were saying We are agile already. Because we are time boxed. Well, yes, you are right. Partially. Agile means much wider range of practices. An agile coach can explain principles in nice looking presentation. [...]

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Management of agile team

Posted on 23, May 2011

Team Manager It is suggested to have agile teams not bigger than 7-9 people. In case of big project this leads to having more teams that needs to be synchronized. ScrumDesk keep teams hierarchically organized in Team Manager page. In this page Scrum Master can: manage teams add/remove team members from the database define a [...]

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Set the stage in a retrospective

Posted on 9, Mar 2011

Agile retrospective is one of the most important ceremony in Scrum. There are lot of sources how to do it. We would like to provide to ScrumMasters and teams an overview how to do retrospective. And we are starting with Set stage Agile Retrospective – part I – Set Stage View more presentations from ScrumDesk

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Define your Done together

Posted on 28, Jan 2011

As you are aware, Scrum is based on values very nice summarized by Mike Vizdos’s o this cartoon. All of them, however, requires to define working agreement supporting creation of these values. An adaptation is in Scrum done at different levels, mostly through collaboration. Teams  have to have common understanding, common vocabulary. We use word [...]

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How To – Ep.3 – Project and team

Posted on 7, Nov 2010

After the project is created it should be configured. ScrumDesk allows Scrum Master to assign a name in Project page. Except that ScrumMaster can describe the project in Description edit line to provide general information about the project  to other people in a company. ScrumDesk provides a way to visually distinguish the project in projects [...]

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Step 2: Define your development team

Posted on 28, Sep 2010

Who Product Owner Work that needs to be done can be easy distributed in more development teams. ScrumDesk connects teams in one virtually connected social community. This community is notified by ScrumDesk notification system about any change. Teams can be distributed over the internet. New ScrumDesk project has one user at minimum, the author of [...]

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