Is scope creep bad?

Posted on February 19th, 2010 in Agile, Lean, Methodology by siddharta || No Comment

I recently gave a talk on 5 pitfalls in agile development. One of the points in the talk was about how traditional methods focused on managing projects by cost and schedule, whereas agile methods looked at other ways of measuring progress. For example, working software is held as a primary measure of progress. So is delivering business value.

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Questioning the end of sprint demo

Posted on February 1st, 2010 in Agile by siddharta || 2 Comments

Scrum prescribes this little ceremony at the end of the sprint called “the demo.” The idea of the demo is to show the stakeholders what was built during the sprint. What can be wrong with that?

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