During an interview at the Better Software conference this week, I mentioned that I thought maintaining a single list of work prioritized by the business was important for our industry to improve. The following text is an excerpt, in first draft form, from chapter 2, “Architecture Integrity”, of my upcoming book “Architecture in an Agile [...]

One of the most common questions in teaching and coaching agile processes to groups is: “How do we design our software while delivering iterations of potentially shippable product increments?” Scrum, an agile process that I teach about and coach organizations on implementation of, asks that each Sprint, analogous to an iteration, delivers a potentially shippable [...]

Have you ever heard or said any of these phrases? We are going to implement the Scrum methodology. We’re doing a modified Scrum. Our developers are using a Scrum process. These may seem like innocuous statements but they are indicators of potential misinterpretation of how Scrum is best utilized. Scrum is not a full development [...]

As Scrum is introduced into an organization with many teams, there are usually questions about particular roles and how they will work with teams.