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 I help convert had an interesting set of circumstances that put the Product Owner/Customer in a very difficult situation.
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Filed under: Agile Software Development, Cultural Change, Estimating, Organisation Change, Project Management, Scrum
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 cost of each iteration (also known as the burn rate).
At some point the Ken decided to calculate the cost of each story point. This is a brief description of what he did and the results.
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Filed under: Agile Software Development, Estimating, Planning, Project Management, Scrum
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