Difficult decisions when you’re between a rock and a hard place
Over the last six months, I have been working with a client that is moving from “RUP” to Scrum. It’s unfair to describe their projects as using RUP because in truth they’re more waterfall than RUP. The project teams used RUP nomenclature and artifacts, but still worked within the waterfall lifecycle. One particular project that … Read more
How much does a Story Point cost?
I’ve recently been coaching a team that has taken particularly well to Scrum. After a few iterations the project team quickly settled down into a regular rhythm of producing software. The ScrumMaster (Ken) dutifully recorded the teams Velocity [the number of Story Points completed per iteration], in addition to some financial metrics. This included the … Read more
