Here are my favorite Agile and Scrum articles from the past week:
There won’t be any posts this week, but I will see you again after the holidays.
I collect the best Agile and Scrum links throughout the week to share them with you here every Friday:
When implementing scrum for the first time, you read all about the roles, meetings, user stories and more. However, when it comes to planning the first sprint, most of us feel lost and unsure in what exactly needs to be done.
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Scrum — the practice in which development work is carried out in fast-paced and frequent iterations by closely connected teams –should be easy, fast and fun. But old-style organizational thinking tends to seep back into the process, and Scrum-inspired projects end up like every other overbearing project — late, over budget, and a slog for all.
An iterative process is one that makes progress through successive refinement. A development team takes a first cut at a system, knowing it is incomplete or weak in some (perhaps many) areas. The team then iteratively refines those areas until the product is satisfactory. With each iteration, the software is improved through the addition of greater detail.
Who Attends: Product Owner, ScrumMaster, Developers
What Happens: The team reviews the last Sprint and identifies areas for improvement
When: At the end of the Sprint
How Long: 1 Hour Read More
The devil’s brew, dead man’s dram, the poison scourge, cannonball swig, the preacher’s lye. For the most part, countries with an ‘e’ in their names(United States, England, Ireland) add the ‘e’ and spell it Whiskey, while other countries without an ‘e'(Scotland, Japan, Canada) spell it Whisky. However you spell it, the beverage is inspiring.
“Too much of anything is bad, but too much good whiskey is barely enough.”
-Mark Twain
Inspiration can come from anywhere, so I’m breaking down my favorite bottles into simple color palettes to serve for some awe inspiring colors from the ‘water of life’.
Of course, I have to start with the prize of my home state of Tennessee:
Jack Daniel’s
Kentucky Bourbon:
Jim Beam
“I have never in my life seen a Kentuckian who didn’t have a gun, a pack of cards, and a jug of whiskey.”
-Andrew Jackson
Canadian Whisky:
Crown Royal
“The water was not fit to drink. To make it palatable, we had to add whisky. By diligent effort, I learned to like it.”
-Winston Churchill
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