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November 2009 - Posts

• The TFS 2010 Product Backlog Ecosystem

  In Scrum for Team System 2.x Product Backlog Items (PBI’s) lived a simple life. They had an iteration path, an area path and were linked to Sprint Backlog Items (SBI’s). Confusingly, the more common terminology for SBI’s amongst non TFS users is Sprint Read More... Posted 11 November 2009 15:50 by Anonymous | 5 Comments Filed under: TFS, Scrum, Project Management, Scrum for Team System, VSTS 2010, .NET, Microsoft, Quality, VSTS 2008, PDC 2009

• Scrum in the Enterprise with Visual Studio 2010

  Next week I’m speaking on Scrum in the Enterprise and Process Customisation with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 at PDC 2009 in Los Angeles. There is far more to Scrum for Team System Version 3.0 than I can possibly cover in the allotted time so I’m supporting Read More... Posted 11 November 2009 15:30 by Anonymous | 0 Comments Filed under: Agile, Scrum, Scrum for Team System, VSTS 2010, Microsoft, PDC 2009

• The philosophy of Kanban is Kryptonite to Scrum

  As awareness of Kanban grows, people are naturally wanting to learn more about it; especially if they’ve tried Scrum and found it challenging or failed to reap any perceivable benefits from it. At first glance, many people see the basic difference between Read More... Posted 10 November 2009 15:08 by Anonymous | 22 Comments Filed under: Agile, Scrum, Project Management, kanban

• Purist is a dirty word

  Something strange happened in the last few years. Purist became a dirty word. And "Scrum Purist" came to be the dirtiest version of all. I run into a lot of folks who proudly boast that they're not "one of those crazy Scrum Purists" - that instead they're Read More... Posted 03 November 2009 19:35 by Anonymous | 2 Comments Filed under: Agile, Scrum