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Last Thursday I lectured at my company about agile methodologies family (XP & Scrum). The lecture contained the following parts: a short briefing about problems in software development, Agile methodology, the12 XP practices(and some extra practices) and finally present the Scrum process in action(with samples that showed how to manage a scrum project using the Team Foundation Server). It's the third time that I have lectured this presentation (The first time I lectured it to my team and the second...
As I have already posted, we are managing our project in Scrum methodology. I made some changes in the original methodology in order to improve our productivity at our specific organization. Here are some of them: Daily Meeting: The daily meetings will be stand-up meeting. We had a problem to start these meetings exactly in time because each computer shows a different time. To resolve this problem I bought a new big clock, and I hang it in the center of the room. The daily meeting is now accordantly...
Last Thursday we finished our first applicative sprint .There was another sprint (sprint 0) that focused on infrastructure and on the building of the skeleton of our application. Last Sunday we had two summary meetings about finishing the sprint: Sprint review meeting and Sprint Retrospective meeting. You probably ask yourself: · What are the purposes of those meetings? · What are the goals of those meeting? · What is the different between these two meetings? · How those meeting can help me? · Are...
We have a daily meeting every morning in our office. Those meeting are managed by the scrum master( Shani Raba - the second team leader or me). In those meeting the scrum master is asking the team members (one person talks at a time) 3 questions: 1. What did to you do since the last Daily Scrum meeting? 2. What will you intend to do between now and the next Daily Scrum meeting? 3. What are the obstacles that can hit your productivity? There is no place to questions about design, architecture, specifications...
I started a new job (my second job as team leader) in a new project(One project with two teams). We decided to develop our project with the scrum methodology. Scrum is one of the agile methodologies, which focus on some major things like: · Quick response to a competition. · The ability to develop quickly, high priority staffs for your costumer in maximum productivity. I'll write some posts on this subject in the next few months. Our project started officially in the beginning of this year. In the...