http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scrumdevelopment/ Scrum Users Mon, 12 May 2008 03:54:34 GMT jameskleester http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scrumdevelopment/message/29222 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scrumdevelopment/message/29222 Thanks, this is good advice. I will try it. James Sun, 11 May 2008 23:22:42 GMT Jo Newcombe Cook http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scrumdevelopment/message/29221 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scrumdevelopment/message/29221 The (great) Scrum Master course that I attended suggested that you should look at the product vision as part of your planning process. This is what I consider Sun, 11 May 2008 22:38:44 GMT Christophe Louvion http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scrumdevelopment/message/29220 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scrumdevelopment/message/29220 yes, the intent is that those positions are C level positions. What happens to the CIO/CTO? -takes care of people's career -preserves and grow technical Sun, 11 May 2008 21:20:41 GMT Don Gray http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scrumdevelopment/message/29219 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scrumdevelopment/message/29219 Tony, ... I saw this once with a team I "inherited" after their second sprint. Their first ScrumMaster had a habit of calling each team member by name for Sun, 11 May 2008 19:20:11 GMT Ilja Preuss http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scrumdevelopment/message/29218 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scrumdevelopment/message/29218 ... Oh yes - I've near to totally given up *force*. Self-reflection takes a lot of energy, too, though - at least in my experience. And from time to time I Sun, 11 May 2008 19:11:15 GMT George Dinwiddie http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scrumdevelopment/message/29217 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scrumdevelopment/message/29217 ... Yes, and sometimes I just need to reflect on low-energy ways to improve. In fact, more often than not, I find improvement better served by using less Sun, 11 May 2008 17:50:16 GMT jameskleester http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scrumdevelopment/message/29216 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scrumdevelopment/message/29216 Tony, That is an excellent point about the *Parking Lot*. I attended the CSM course as well. My instructor was Bas Vodde, and he also used the parking lot Sun, 11 May 2008 16:55:28 GMT Tony Pagliocco http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scrumdevelopment/message/29215 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scrumdevelopment/message/29215 1. 15-minute time limit; 2. Start @ same time, same place; 3. Ask questions that facilitate involvement, problem solving, and team work (versus "telling people Sun, 11 May 2008 16:43:06 GMT Steve Freeman http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scrumdevelopment/message/29214 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scrumdevelopment/message/29214 A correction. XTC meets every Tuesday. See you there. S. ... Steve Freeman http://www.mockobjects.com Winner of the Agile Alliance Gordon Pask award 2006 Sun, 11 May 2008 16:27:33 GMT jameskleester http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scrumdevelopment/message/29213 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scrumdevelopment/message/29213 I am a new Scrum Master (8-10 iteration experience) and this is my dumb question of the day.. Does the perfect stand-up exist? And, when do you know you have Sun, 11 May 2008 13:27:33 GMT Michael James http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scrumdevelopment/message/29212 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scrumdevelopment/message/29212 ... That might be a good idea. London XTC has lively meetings the third Tuesday of each month at The Counting House, 50 Cornhill EC3V 3PD (easily reached from Sun, 11 May 2008 12:13:58 GMT kthakkar http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scrumdevelopment/message/29211 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scrumdevelopment/message/29211 Many of you mentioned that shorter sprint reduces possibility of scope changes and you could follow the rule of no scope changes in the active Sprint. It is Sun, 11 May 2008 06:04:11 GMT Ilja Preuss http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scrumdevelopment/message/29210 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scrumdevelopment/message/29210 +1 That is, there are situations where I need to rest. But even in those situations I'm aware of the fact that I want to improve - I'm just ok with doing that Sun, 11 May 2008 05:59:59 GMT Ilja Preuss http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scrumdevelopment/message/29209 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scrumdevelopment/message/29209 Hi Robert, ... This might simply be a language problem. Ease At Work is very important to me (if you haven't seen it yet, google for Kent Beck's talk on the Sun, 11 May 2008 03:55:35 GMT aacockburn http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scrumdevelopment/message/29208 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scrumdevelopment/message/29208 ... agile? Agile is something I do without striving ... it's what I can't avoid doing. Among other things, the agile manifesto lets me be 'me'. I suspect that