Scrum With Project Initiation Documents (PIDs)

Posted by on Sep 17, 2011 in Agile Planning | 0 comments

There’s no mention of Project Initiation Documents (PID) in Scrum so why as a Product Owner would you use one? After all, Scrum promotes all interested parties being present when planning takes place. In reality, even the most Agile teams struggle getting everyone into the planning session all of the time. Whilst (at minimum) all members of the feature team plus Product Owner and ScrumMaster should be present I’ve always found it a challenge getting the higher level stakeholders to the meeting. Sales directors, CEO’s, CTO’s all have...

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Why Agile retrospectives are important

Posted by on Jul 31, 2011 in Agile Retrospectives | 4 comments

Agile retrospectives are important – but why? Agile retrospectives are an important yet often neglected part of the Agile/Scrum process. Central to Agile is inspect and adapt – retrospectives are an important part of his. Agile promotes continuous improvement but this can only happen if teams take the time to look back and learn from their experiences. When should Agile teams stop having retrospectives? When Agile teams can no longer improve they can stop retrospectives. Seeing as this never happens, there will always be a need...

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