Rob Hathaway
User experience of agile project: I have never known a project to develop at such a rate."
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Never Let The Customer Forget
15 APR 2009 | Posted in agile business change | Author Rob HathawaySo no matter how hard you work and how much stuff you deliver I've always been amazed at how easily the customer forgets what you've done when things aren't going so well or they can't get what they want (*enter customer stomping feet and throwing tantrum*).
Scrum Of Scrums
07 APR 2009 | Posted in agile theory, integration, planning, scalability, scrum | Author Rob HathawaySo people used to go on about how agile doesn’t scale. Well our work at the Guardian certainly proves that agile scales just fine and then some thanks very much!
Scrum introduced the concept of “Scrum of Scrums” as a way to keep teams working together on an overall project in sync.
Software Development is a Team Sport
07 APR 2009 | Posted in agile project management, scrum | Author Rob HathawaySo recently I heard of a team that is using Scrum and their manager had decided to have a “Person of the Iteration” award for the person that completes the most points in a Iteration.
I think this totally misses the point of Agile being a team of people working together to get as much stuff “done” in an iteration to the highest levels of quality.
Do you have an incentive to help other people in your team complete work? No Way.
Would you like to pick all the easy stories in an iteration to have a chance of getting the award? You betcha!
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So no matter how hard you work and how much stuff you deliver I've always been amazed at how easily the customer forgets what you've done when things aren't going so well or they can't get what they want (*enter customer stomping feet and throwing tantrum*).
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