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Do you have a CRACK PO? (and a book review)

Kiron Bondale

In 2003, Barry Boehm and Richard Turner coined the acronym C.R.A.C.K. Scrum Masters) might be worth their weight in gold, but they are out there. Development team members are also valuable, but talent across most skill areas is available for the right price and with the right culture in place. Good agile leads (a.k.a.

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5 Agile Methodologies for Project Managers that are not Scrum Framework

Project Pulse Journal

Exploring Agile methodologies provides teams with flexible, efficient, and collaborative approaches to software development and project management. Beyond Scrum , several Agile frameworks were developed to address the unique needs and challenges of projects and teams.

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In-Depth: How To Create Better Work Agreements For Your Team

Scrum.org

Each post discusses scientific research that is relevant to our work with Scrum and Agile teams. You can observe implicit coordination in Scrum teams when you look at how work moves across a Scrum board, or on- and of the Sprint Backlog. This is also why the Scrum framework includes the Definition of Done.

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In-Depth: Stable Or Fluid Teams? What Does The Science Say?

Scrum.org

Considering just how popular the notion of fluid teams has become, I think it is important to weigh the evidence that supports it or contradicts it. Each post discusses scientific research that is relevant to our work with Scrum and Agile teams. It takes time to develop teams. This post is my attempt to do this.

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Can We Still be Agile?

Leading Answers

They do not say teams have to work together to be agile or effective. Instead, they say, " The most efficient and effective method of conveying information to and within a development team is face-to-face conversation " and " Business people and developers must work together daily throughout the project.

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Compendium of Works to Increase Probability of Project Success

Herding Cats

The following material comes from conferences, workshop, materials developed for clients. The overarching theme is focused on defining what Done looks like, assessing progress toward Done in units of measure meaningful to the decision makers. Project Success Assessment - A checklist for assessing the processes for project success.

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DDSTOP The Saga Continues

Herding Cats

This also meant developing software systems to support this effort. We were on of the first users of eXtreme Programming, long before Scrum was around and presented that early work in 2003, " Making Agile Development Work in a Government Contracting Environment, Measuring velocity with Earned Value." .