Archive for the ‘SCRUM’ Category

Is agile an excuse for sloppy project management

I was listening to one of Scott Hanselman’s podcasts this morning and Scott made a comment about people thinking that agile methodologies were and excuse for sloppy project management (NOTE: Scott wasn’t of this opinion, he just stated that some other people thought this). I am fully bought into SCRUM, and whilst we don’t implement [...]

Getting Into Technical Debt

So, this is something I learned on the Certified ScrumMaster course by Danube Technologies. It really clarified for me that any sense of control over software deadlines is, pretty much, only a ‘perceived’ sense of control. Yes, we can strongarm, use peer pressure or rigid authority to make developers work longer hours, but then they [...]

Certified ScrumMaster Training

So I just spent two days in London on a ‘Certified ScrumMaster’ training course run by Danube Technologies. The instructor was a Dan Rawsthorne and although he liked to reference things to the military, he covered a great deal of topics and had an incredible wealth of experience – some of the real world example [...]

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