We have a new customer  - with about +/- 10.000 employees - that wants to validate Scrum as an alternative to the traditional approach. Our advise: 'Start with a pilot project to discover how this can be done'. Our question: 'What are the organizational impediments potentially hindering the roll-out of Scrum?'

Einstein was a Scrum pioneer; look at his quotes and see how they all included a lot of messages from the Agile Manifesto or Scrum process & philosophy

“If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.“

Einstein was a Scrum pioneer; look at his quotes and see how they all included messages from the Agile Manifesto or Scrum process & philosophy

“I never teach my pupils. I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.”

This post is the third and final post in a series of three about Scrum in offshore projects.

 This post is the second post in a series of three about Scrum in off-shore projects.

Question:       Name two things that slow down your project.

Since several years we are using, supporting and promoting Scrum. Scrum is a lightweight framework for project management. It is an Agile process framework that allows you to continuously direct your projects towards early delivery of real business value through the frequent and regular delivery of high quality software. Scrum has become an industry standard since the nineties.

The number 1 reason people don’t like to use tools when it comes to scrum...

I went to an Agile Acceptance Testing seminar last week. The program of the seminar was announced as follows:

“Agile Acceptance Testing is a technique for closing the communication gap between business, developers and testers. A way to write specifications as examples which become executable. The specification are created together in a workshop and not handed over like traditional requirements”

One of our customers recently wanted to know about our internal quality processes. On this occasion we collected data on our tests. Some of the results surprised us.