Re: Re: Scrum with MS Visual Studio *2003* ?

Since we're advertising: I know of another really good tool that you could use.

--Hubert

On 1/31/06, Deb <deborah <at> hartmann.net> wrote:
> Conclusion after offline conversation :
> - out of luck for VS 2003
> - wait for VS 2005 and use either the integrated MS Agile track or the
> Conchango Scrum tool.
>
> Thanks, all
> deb
>
>
> --- In scrumdevelopment <at> yahoogroups.com, "Deb" <deborah <at> h...> wrote:
> >
> > --- In scrumdevelopment <at> yahoogroups.com, "Deb" <deborah <at> h...> wrote:
> > >
> > > I've scanned this list and don't see anything about MS's plug in for
> > > VS 2003, which turned up in a Google web search.
> > >
> > > Yes, there's stuff for VS 2005, not an option yet. My client is
> > > converting to 2005 but it will take a while and he'd really like to
> > > integrate with his current version of VS. He is adverse to
> > > spreadsheets. I'll start them off simple, but want to have this in my
> > > back pocket (if worthwhile) in case their culture really can't live
> > > with digital photos of whiteboards  especially since project
> > > visibility is one major goal.
> > >
> > > As often happens with SCRUM, the team needs to start immediately.

Re: Re: Scrum with MS Visual Studio *2003* ?

You could go to the Agile Alliance roadmap section and take a copy of
the tools section. That should give a reasonably complete start.

--Hubert

On 1/31/06, Victor Szalvay <victor <at> danube.com> wrote:
> Yes,
> The ScrumAlliance site would be the best place to start aggregating
> this type of information.  I will post it there and start a new
> section for tool resources.
> http://www.scrumalliance.org/index.php/scrum_alliance/for_everyone/resources
>
> Thanks,
> -- Victor
>
> --- In scrumdevelopment <at> yahoogroups.com, "David H." <dmalloc <at> g...> wrote:
> >
> > Deb wrote:
> > > --- In scrumdevelopment <at> yahoogroups.com, "Deb" <deborah <at> h...> wrote:
> > >> I've scanned this list and don't see anything about MS's plug in for
> > >> VS 2003, which turned up in a Google web search.
> > >>
> > >> Yes, there's stuff for VS 2005, not an option yet. My client is
> > >> converting to 2005 but it will take a while and he'd really like to
> > >> integrate with his current version of VS. He is adverse to
> > >> spreadsheets. I'll start them off simple, but want to have this in my
> > >> back pocket (if worthwhile) in case their culture really can't live
> > >> with digital photos of whiteboards  especially since project
> > >> visibility is one major goal.
> > >>

Re: Re: Scrum with MS Visual Studio *2003* ?

Deb wrote:
> Conclusion after offline conversation :
> - out of luck for VS 2003 
> - wait for VS 2005 and use either the integrated MS Agile track or the
> Conchango Scrum tool.
> 
Now off to the web-site with you, documenting this, along with links to the
tools and to the conversation on the mailing list. Git, Git :)

*grins and ducks as I run away :) *

-d

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Re: Re: Self organization

On 31 Jan 2006 at 17:41, Victor Szalvay wrote:

> > Thankfully it was easily recoverable from -- The story was
> > delivered, customer happy (mostly). My point to the developers was
> > that the next time this occurs, you should have brought it up in the
> > standup. Self-organization isn't sitting there and passively taking
> > what the one or two people who might say something is. It's
> > understanding the consequences of the group's decisions. And
> > comitting to that decision.
> >
> 
> I don't think you should have jumped in

I didn't.  

I talked to the individual afterwards.  I had heard about the somewhat bizzare staffing that 
they had chosen (6 of the 7 people in the scrum were working on a single (rather large) 
story), but I chose to let the scrum work it out the way they thought was best -- should I not 
have??

THere were reports of some overlapping responsibilities, some confusion, wasted time 
ramping up.

But in the end, they delivered the story, it worked, and the customer was happy (even though 
there was a minor bug during the demo).

My only point to the individual was to focus him on bringing it up within his scrum, and not 
waiting to complain to me.

Re: Re: Self organization

On 31 Jan 2006 at 13:03, Hubert Smits wrote:

> 
> Again, to me this is thinking about the problem from a very short-term
> perspective.  The more you hold the team's hand, the more you're
> obscuring your organization's real problems.

So what are the rules around how 30 developers organize into scrums?  Should I walk into 
the iteration planning meeting with a big stack of paper, and go through it? (tried it.  Didn't 
work very well).

Should I organize it into groups, but let the assignments be derived from people's interests 
and the team's objectives during the iteration planning meeting (did that too, worked much 
better).

I'm not sure either are "unscrumlike" or "unempowering".  But I certainly played more of a 
direct role in the 2nd approach.

Mike

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Re: Re: Team (No Longer) Dreading Sprint Retrospective

Congrats, and keep on going!  I wish you and your team the best of luck!

On 1/31/06, morri027 <paula.morrison <at> duke.edu> wrote:
> --- In scrumdevelopment <at> yahoogroups.com, debhart <deborah <at> h...>
> wrote:
> > Hi Paula. Some thoughts after readingour colleagues' comments:
> >
> > Paula, thanks for your courage in asking for input here - courage
> is a useful
> > tool in your ScrumMaster toolkit. We really do want this to be a
> collaborative
> > space 
> >
> > You have many suggestions here - I suggest you go with your gut,
> pick a couple
> > that resonate, and do your own little retrospective after the
> retro, to see how
> > they worked. Good luck!
> >
> > deb
> >
> Thanks to everyone who tried to help me with this issue.  I have to
> admit that some of the suggestions seemed so drastic that I found
> myself wondering whether I might have overstated the problem.
>
> Anyway, I took Deb's advice - I went with my gut and picked a couple
> of suggestions that resonated.  The two suggestions that made the
> most sense to me were to 1) privately discuss the issues with the
> individuals involved in the conflict, and ask them to put the needs
> of the team above their own individual needs, and 2) ask the 3

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Re: Scrum with MS Visual Studio *2003* ?

Does it integrate with MS? (email me offline if you prefer, Hubert)
thx
deb

--- In scrumdevelopment <at> yahoogroups.com, Hubert Smits
<hubert.smits <at> g...> wrote:
>
> Since we're advertising: I know of another really good tool that you
could use.
> 
> --Hubert
> 
> On 1/31/06, Deb <deborah <at> h...> wrote:
> > Conclusion after offline conversation :
> > - out of luck for VS 2003
> > - wait for VS 2005 and use either the integrated MS Agile track or the
> > Conchango Scrum tool.
> >
> > Thanks, all
> > deb
> >
> >
> > --- In scrumdevelopment <at> yahoogroups.com, "Deb" <deborah <at> h...> wrote:
> > >
> > > --- In scrumdevelopment <at> yahoogroups.com, "Deb" <deborah <at> h...> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I've scanned this list and don't see anything about MS's plug
in for
> > > > VS 2003, which turned up in a Google web search.
> > > >
> > > > Yes, there's stuff for VS 2005, not an option yet. My client is
> > > > converting to 2005 but it will take a while and he'd really
like to
> > > > integrate with his current version of VS. He is adverse to
> > > > spreadsheets. I'll start them off simple, but want to have
this in my
> > > > back pocket (if worthwhile) in case their culture really can't
live
> > > > with digital photos of whiteboards  especially since project
> > > > visibility is one major goal.
> > > >
> > > > As often happens with SCRUM, the team needs to start immediately.
> > > >
> > > > Can anyone tell me whether this thing is worth fooling around
with?
> > > > What do I want to know?
> > > > - does it demand non-Agile data to work? (actuals, for example)
> > > > - is it stable?
> > > > - is it time consuming to install? to use?
> > > >
> > > > PS: for use by a single normal-sized scrum team with a one
member in
> > > > an offsite location. programming language is c++
> > > >
> > > > Thanks
> > > > deb
> > > >
> > >
> > > Link to the MS site regarding this product:
> > > http://tinyurl.com/79kbc
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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