If you must ask, you’re not doing Scrum. If they were optional, why would you have them at all? If you’re too busy to attend, you’re not a team working on a scrum, you’re an individual fighting on your own. Too many times, early in the formation of a team when I would be unable …
NO Period Stick to your “contract” to perform a certain amount of work in a certain period of time and, as Scrum Master (not the team!), work with senior managers or others to find another way to deal with an “emergency”. In over six years of leading agile projects using Scrum, I have never stopped …
In an earlier post, I detailed how I had moved to WordPress as my e-commerce platform, using the WPRemix theme and certain plugins. In the almost six months since, the configuration has changed significantly. Security Concerns Lead To New Forum Plugin I had originally implemented Fredrik Fahlstad’s wp-Forum plugin to manage my forums. Shortly after …
In a previous post, I explained how I have moved to WordPress as the platform for my commercial products. I have received feedback from others with interest in using WordPress for the same purpose. Many of the inquiries have come from people who have never had an online store. In this post, I’d like to …
One of the principles behind The Agile Manifesto states,“The most efficient and effective method of conveying information to and within a development team is face-to-face conversation.” I couldn’t agree more! However, for three years, I ran a dispersed team which could not meet face-to-face. Of nine team members, only two were co-located in the same …