Where do bugs fit into your iterations? This is a discussion I’ve had on many occasions with many different people. Laribee mentioned they work bugs as soon as they come in. I believe Bellware told me the same thing. Provost and Newkirk both told me they get bugs prioritized into the backlog along...

Something I’ve been thinking about lately, as I’ve been going through reams of paper on lean, kanban, kaizen and Toyota Production system concepts, is how the definition of done differs from that we are used to in Scrum. In Scrum, the product owner gets with the rest of the team and the come up with...

Its true. Too much money is available to IT. As a business with too much money assigned to an IT budget, you’re allowed to have teams completely fail, miserably, and when they do, you just throw more money at it. Lack of money isn’t the problem. The failures will still exist. Mediocre developers can...

Alt.Net kicked off this evening with the setting of the agenda. We have so many topics, there are going to be a LOT of great discussions. I feel privileged to be a part of a conference that is potentially shaping the .Net community. . . and I enjoyed meeting Martin Fowler for the first time. We have...

I had this discussion briefly at BarCamp Dallas yesterday. The question came up as to how do I describe scrum to my client? When going into a new client, I don’t. There are a lot of companies out there that are reading about scrum and learning scrum on their own, and then want to hire somebody to come...

I've had this post sitting in the queue forever. Not forever, but about 2 months. Before I start, I'd love to be able to go back and quote the mass amount of Alt.Net posts that have come out of CB over the last few days, but to be honest I don't have time to read them right now. I'm the...

Jeffery Palermo's just posted his clarification of the ALT.NET idea . I think he did a great job of explicitly separating values from examples. I also really like his call out of joy as an important value to consider going forward. Joy was a motivation for Yukihiro Matsumoto creating and evolving...