http://www.andybrandt.net A stream in the sea... Mon, 15 Mar 2010 16:32:14 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Scrum community is now debating - how Scrum Alliance and Ken Schwaber and certification programs and trainers and all kinds of related stuff will play out or should look like. In the meantime Scrum is in a real danger, which I don't think is being noticed. This danger for Scrum and ... http://www.andybrandt.net/601/the-real-danger-for-scrum Ken Schwaber announced a new certification program, the Professional Scrum Master, and blogs/discussion groups are now full of posts about Scrum, Scrum Alliance and Ken. Some of the discussion is highly political and I feel some prospective from outside of the "club" is really due. Seen from where I live ... http://www.andybrandt.net/588/scrum-politics-as-seen-from-afar Someone has sent me a link to a quite emotional but interesting article by Tim Bray on why the world of enterprise systems delivers so many failed projects and sucky software while the world of web startups excels at producing great software fast. Tim makes some very valid points about ... http://www.andybrandt.net/576/overcomplexity As agile software developers providing outsourcing services we are frequently asked to sign different NDAs and MNDAs. After over two years and dozens of NDAs I noticed a certain pattern which I will call "The Law of NDAs". It goes like this: "The originality and value of the idea protected by ... http://www.andybrandt.net/546/brandts-law-of-ndas David Harvey wrote a piece on his blog entitled "The Scrum picture is wrong" where he says that the well known, canonical even, picture of Scrum loops errs by focusing too much on the product (deliverable, "potentially shippable product increment") and forgetting that continuous improvement of the team is another ... http://www.andybrandt.net/533/scrum-picture-is-quite-right