Ken Schwaber telling Google about SCRUM and Agile

Ken Schwaber, one of the founding fathers of Agile and more specifically SCRUM gives a fantastic hour long presentation to Google about SCRUM. I highly recommend watching it and I hope you all get as much out of it as we have.
This video is a few years old, however, it perfect [...]

What is Velocity on Agile or SCRUM projects?

Velocity is a term that is used very regularly in the Agile world, so let’s talk about it……
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Back in high school science class, we were told that velocity is the “rate at which an object changes its position”. Now, I was always pretty sure that this is what laymen referred to as “speed”, but [...]

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What is a burndown chart?

A common misconception about Agile is that there are a whole bunch of programmers coding like crazy, building whatever they feel like in a set period of time. Don’t mention the word Gantt Chart or MS Project, or you will be in serious trouble.
This actually could not be further from the [...]