Scrum Student Resources. Scaling Scrum With Epics. Scrum is an incredibly effective project management tool and has great success within small teams and large companies alike.
As organizations move from one or two teams using Scrum to adopting an more enterprise-wide implementation, typical questions occur. One such question goes like this: How does a Project Manager or Product Owner coordinate work across multiple Scrum teams? There is a prescribed set of practices and techniques we can bring to bear to make scaling Scrum easier and more formulaic to answer this question. Don’t Get Caught up on “Product” The more I work with Scrum across the enterprise, the more I loath the word “product” in the Scrum vernacular. Some possible Epics include: eScrum for Microsoft Visual Studio Team System. Agile Sharepoint development by 21apps and MOSS 2007 MVP Andrew Woodward. The SUGUK Big Event of 2008 took place last night and was a resounding success.
I presented an introduction to Agile SharePoint Dev with zero code demos, which was a welcome relief to the audience as Todd Bleeker had just fried their brains with the SPD to Visual Studio workflow session. (looking forward to seeing this online). This introduction looked at what Agile means, the importance of the Empirical approach and the problems with the prescriptive process that so many organisation continue to flog. I introduced the Agile manifesto which is the foundation to the changes happening in the industry. The talk looked at Scrum as an example of an agile management process interwoven with some discussion on XP processes and how the two work together. I have uploaded the presentation here. Agile Sharepoint Dev (Suguk 11 July 08) There was a lot of really good discussion that continued in the bar afterwards, a lot of things to cover over the coming months.
Scrum Tools Roundup - Fear and Loathing. Working this weekend on some new SharePoint stuff which you’ll see in a few weeks but thought I would pull together a list of tools to help people with Scrum.
These are tools that help you plan iterations, keep track of your updates, and generally make life easier for the ScrumMaster or those working on Scrum projects. Not to say a plain old whiteboard with post-it notes or Microsoft Excel won’t do the trick, but these tools take you a little bit farther and help you keep track of things holistically. Some are open source, others are not so check them out if you’re looking for something extra to add to your Scrum process. Where noted, I’ve given some suggestions about using these tools where I’ve already taken a look at them for you, but please make up your own mind with your own eval if you’re serious about a product (especially one that costs $$$). ScarabJava server based artifact tracking system, highly customizable. IterateThis is an interesting tool and very simple in appearance. VSTS Scrum Process Template - Home. Building a Virtual Bullpen with Microsoft SharePoint. In-Depth Building a Virtual Bullpen with Microsoft SharePoint SharePoint puts an end to inefficient project management and helps Agile dev teams stay light on their feet.
My first exposure to a co-located "agile" project team occurred a few years ago when I walked past a large conference room filled with people, computers and large bowls of assorted candies. It was the candy that caught my eye, but I immediately noticed the wall plastered with multicolored index cards, arranged in sections. John, a friend of mine, saw me looking at the wall and stepped over to explain. "This is our project bullpen, where everyone working on our sprint sits until we're finished," he told me. "Everyone sits here? "That's right. I was shocked. Creating a Digital Bullpen For the rest of us, a ready solution comes in the form of Microsoft SharePoint.
SharePoint custom lists offer a ready means for implementing a virtual bullpen. The benefits are undeniable. Solution Starter: Scrum for Project 2003. Aneto Okonkwo Microsoft Corporation and Stanford University October 2005 Applies to: Microsoft Office Project Professional 2003 Microsoft Office Project Standard 2003 Microsoft Office Project Server 2003 Microsoft Excel 5.0 or later Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Summary: Learn to use the Scrum template for Microsoft Office Project 2003 to create a product backlog and/or sprint backlog for an Agile project management environment.
The COM add-in generates burn-down graphs and cumulative flow diagrams in Microsoft Office Excel. (13 printed pages) Download Project 2003 Tool: Scrum Solution Starter (pj11ScrumSolutionStarter.exe). Contents Introduction to Scrum Scrum is an Agile project management practice designed around short iterations and continuous improvement. Note The Project 2003 Tool: Scrum Solution Starter is available from the Microsoft Download Center. Project managers can graph the data in Microsoft Office Excel on a time-phased basis. Figure 1.