One of the things I admired about Extreme Programming (XP) was the simplicity of the roles defined in the Green Book. In XP, there are only two roles: Customer and Programmer. When you are using XP, the Customer makes business decisions, Programmers make technical decisions and one role may not substitute ...
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I do a lot of work with Scrum Teams and the ones that struggle the most are the ones where the Scrum roles are defined poorly and\or not filled properly. Scrum is a balanced framework and when the roles get muddled, the framework begins to adopt the dysfunctions of the ...
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A Sprint Burndown chart is a simple tool used by the Team to provide a measurement on how close they are to meeting the Sprint Goal by the end of the Sprint. Burndown charts are common in Scrum and are simply the trend of work remaining across time in a Sprint, a ...
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I had an interesting conversation today with one of the software testers in China who was having difficulty understanding some planning concepts in Scrum. She wanted to know if a Scrum team finished all their work early in a Sprint, would it be OK for the Team to take some ...
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