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Using Scrum on Larger Projects: "Scrum of Scrums"

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Written by Kelly Waters   
Tuesday, 09 June 2009 19:02
Using Scrum on Larger Projects: Scrum of ScrumsIt is sometimes said that agile software development methods, such as Scrum, are ideal for small projects being delivered by small teams.

Personally I would certainly agree that Scrum is ideal for small, multi-disciplined, co-located teams, working on a common purpose.

However, these days we hear plenty of examples of larger companies using Scrum on a fairly large scale. I seem to recall Yahoo in particular once stated they were using Scrum on a project with 700 developers!
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To Estimate or Not To Estimate? That is the Question!

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Written by Kelly Waters   
Monday, 01 June 2009 07:40
To Estimate or Not To Estimate, That is the Question!Lean software development shares many of the key principles of agile software development.

Although one of the key aspects of lean development is all about identifying and eliminating waste from the development process...

One of the most hotly debated aspects of this is estimatin[...]
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Kanban Applied to Software Development: From Agile to Lean

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Written by Kelly Waters   
Monday, 18 May 2009 19:52
Kanban lean software developmentMost of my experience of agile software development has been with Scrum, and some aspects of eXtreme Programming (XP). However, for quite a while now, I've been reading quite a bit about Lean software development, and Kanban.

For those that don't really know much about Kanban, I found the following article on InfoQ quite an interesting insight:

http://www.infoq.com/articles/hiranabe-lean-agile-kanban

I haven't made the [...]
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Scrum Video

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Written by Kelly Waters   
Monday, 18 May 2009 04:06
Bruno Sbille and his team have made this video as a nice light-hearted way to show how they used Scrum on a real-world project...

Scrum methodology from Soul' on Vimeo.



Kelly.

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Forrester on Agile and Lean

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Written by Kelly Waters   
Tuesday, 12 May 2009 08:16
Forrester on Agile and LeanHere's an interesting article about Agile and Lean, written by a senior analyst at Forrester Research...

"Agile Processes Go Lean"

It's nice to see agile and lean getting such positive recognition from an organisation as credible as Forrester.

Kelly.

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