Thursday 24 November 2011

Wiki's link more for distributed teams

I don't believe the agile teams, which are situated in same building, and same room should help out one another by sending Wiki's link. Agile is all about communication and face to face communication is the best way if you can do. I did notice quite a lot people like this trend to share wikis and ask to read through and come back with questions. Communication is a one of most important key for Agile team to understand and help each other to progress well towards sprint goal.

Agile Manifesto about communications:

"The most efficient and effective method of conveying information to and within a development

team is face-to-face conversation."

PMBOK about communications:

“Face to face meetings are the most effective means for communicating and resolving issues with stakeholders”


Wednesday 23 November 2011

Scrum values

I was reading book in train this morning The Software Project Manager's Bridge to Agility and found these scrum values which are so well explained. Agile team should understand these values and dedicate to these rules.

  • We believe in openness; therefore we will share project status as visible as possible
  • We believe in respect; there we will treat everyone with courtesy and fairness and will not waste time in finger pointing
  • We believe in courage; therefore we will not stand back in difficult conversation and say 'no' when we must
  • We believe in focus; therefore we will organise our work in sprint and give priority
  • We believe in commitment; therefore we will committed to our promise and will assume the accountability and authority we need to get it done and deliver