Tag: Scrum

Scrum Power of 3 imbalance – Scrum Master as Product Owner

Feb 21, 2012 • 4 min read • Simon Reindl

The question was recently posed to me – What conflicts occur if the Scrum Master is also the Product Owner? This can be seen as a workaround for not getting a dedicated Product Owner, which is …

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Chicago Visual Studio ALM User Group: VS11 and Scrum

Oct 20, 2011 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

I was in town this week delivering a Professional Scrum Developer Train-The-Trainer (TTT) event. Last night I gave a presentation to a full room at the Chicago Visual Studio ALM User Group on using …

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A Scrum comparison of the MSF/Agile and Visual Studio Scrum templates

Aug 3, 2011 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

While it’s possible for a Scrum team to use the MSF for Agile Software Development v5.0 process template to implement Scrum, it makes more sense to use the Visual Studio Scrum 1.0 process template, …

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Professional Scrum Developer Questions asked at TechEd 2011

May 18, 2011 • 4 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Q. We are implementing Product Life Cycle Management (PLCM) as part of our ISO certification. How does Scrum fit into the ISO world? We are also adopting 3M’s (our parent company) Lean Six Sigma …

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Debugging a Dysfunctional Team

May 18, 2011 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

UPDATE (3 June 2011): Watch the recorded presentation on Channel 9. Yesterday I gave a talk at TechEd on Dysfunctional software development teams. We primarily focused on people dysfunctions, but …

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Files from Implementing Scrum pre-conference at Microsoft TechEd

May 16, 2011 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

UPDATE (3 June 2011): Here are the answers to questions that were asked during the pre-conference. Thank you for attending the preconference yesterday. I hope the presentation and ensuing …

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Scrumming in DC

May 2, 2011 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Actually at Microsoft’s MTC in Reston, Virginia, but close enough. Thanks to everyone who attended our event, either online or in-person, last week. It was great to have such a large group that was …

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Agile Scrum Development Practices with the Experts - see you in DC next month

Mar 18, 2011 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

If you are in the DC area next month, you should attend this exciting, free event where will explore Scrum in the real-world and how you can adopt a more Agile approach to software projects …

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Links from my Boise Code Camp 2011 talks

Mar 2, 2011 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Here is a quick post with the materials and links from last weekend at the Boise Code Camp. Scrum Workshop (with Adam Cogan) Official Scrum Guide Mike Cohn’s articles on User Stories | Planning Poker …

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