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dgtlhybrd

November 19, 2007

Posted by dgtlhybrd

Speaking of Scrum!? - What are the benifits and why should an agency switch from a timesheet system to scrum? Im would love to see success stories

What comes out of using a program like this rather than just writing down " what a person has to do, when its due etc." and printing it out for each week?

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  1. dgtlhybrd: and of course - being in a smaller agency , would this sort of managment hurt us or help us?
  2. dtjessb: These systems help to hold people accountable for their responsibilities at the job and helps a lot the bigger the organization gets and the more employees it brings on. Accountability is important so that employees know what they should be doing and it is the same thing that management thinks they should be doing. Check out www.organizedchange.com for more information.

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Damatr

November 19, 2007

Posted by Damatr

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If your company is think about adopting agile I recommend an article by Pukinskis listing the 5 stumbling blocks for new company adoption.

1. No dedicated team - Sharing resources or others constantly stealing your resources won't work
2. No Executive Sponsorship - If you don't have a good executive sponsor who understands Agile, your attempts will fail. You need to educate your leaders in order to succeed.
3. Offshore/Outsourced Developers
4. Lingering Waterfall elements - Agile teams tend to develop everything incrementally - vision, requirements, architecture, tests, documentation, and code.
5. No Product Owner

For success stories load: http://www.controlchaos.com/testimonials/

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bahellman

November 19, 2007

Posted by bahellman

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Scrum is an iterative, incremental process for developing any product or managing any work. It produces a potentially shippable set of functionality at the end of every iteration.

Scrum does not relate to company-wide general operational items such as time sheets. Time sheets are separate and should be kept separate from the development process.

In a waterfall methodology, it may be months or longer before you realize you are way off track on a project. In Agile, the product team will see results quickly and be able to point out the discrepancies and adjust.

Scrum allows teams to be able to adjust to changing requirements and changing environments/markets faster. With waterfall, it can take weeks just to nail down the requirements and by the time the requirements are finalized, they are out of date. In scrum, you have mini-planning sessions each iteration aka sprint (usually 2 to 4 weeks long), which allow the product team to review the progress and make any changes or comments before its to late.

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