Ellie Powers on Scrum

Posted By: Grace Francisco | Jul 9th, 2007 @ 8:25 AM | 19,220 Views | 14 Comments

Scrum is the new, hot buzzword when it comes to process these days. Grace Francisco talks over lunch with Ellie Powers, Program Manager with the Hotmail team to find out more about Scrum and its benefits. Hear her real world feedback on using it in projects and the challenges you may encounter.

Check out http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=162705 to see another team that uses Scrum.
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#Jul 10th, 2007 @ 9:39 AM
Chadk
Chadk
excuse me - do you has a flavor?
Who's the nice voice of this video?
#Jul 10th, 2007 @ 12:45 PM
JChung2006
JChung2006
The video description says Grace Francisco.
#Jul 10th, 2007 @ 1:20 PM
Chadk
Chadk
excuse me - do you has a flavor?
JChung2006 wrote:
The video description says Grace Francisco.

Oh ye. Silly me.

I havent heard of her. Surely we should have an introduction video for her?
#Jul 10th, 2007 @ 3:08 PM
Charles
Charles
Welcome Change
Grace is the newest addition to our team. We're lucky to have her aboard. She keeps the boat afloat.

I agree about an intro video...

C
#Jul 10th, 2007 @ 4:32 PM
SeanJanis
SeanJanis
Sean Janis
I first learned about Scrum through Ken Schwaber's book, Agile Project Management with Scrum, which was a great read. To me, the funnest thing about Scrum is using its quirky jargon.

"During his team's daily Scrum meeting, the ScrumMaster looked at his fellow Pigs, analyzed his Burndown Graph, and spoke a few choice words about burdensome Chickens luring in the Project's wings - waiting for the chance to alter the Sprint Backlog, but in actuality will have to wait until the current iteration is completed."

See - pretty fun. Anyways, I hope I can apply its ideology to my future projects.
#Jul 10th, 2007 @ 8:03 PM
Grace Francisco
Grace Francisco
Charles wrote:
Grace is the newest addition to our team. We're lucky to have her aboard. She keeps the boat afloat.

I agree about an intro video...

C


Geez... Thanks Charles!

Hi Chad! When Jeff gets back from sabbatical we'll do an updated team shoot of the evnet team so you'll get a chance to "meet" the entire team including me. I'm a PM on the team working with the devs on features across our communities. Thanks for watching my video with Ellie! You can also check out my blog entry on how we're doing with Scrum on the evnet team.
#Jul 11th, 2007 @ 1:24 PM
cloak13PLAGUE
cloak13PLAGUE
Greatest Video Game Ever!

I haven't done a lot of study into Scrum but this video definately is going to get me looking at it more. I think it could really help my development shop which sometimes seems to have no meetings about projects.

Anyone have any resources on where to find out more? other than www.live.com Smiley

#Jul 11th, 2007 @ 1:46 PM
Grace Francisco
Grace Francisco
cloak13PLAGUE wrote:


I haven't done a lot of study into Scrum but this video definately is going to get me looking at it more. I think it could really help my development shop which sometimes seems to have no meetings about projects.

Anyone have any resources on where to find out more? other than www.live.com



Agile Project Management with Scrum is a good book to read.
#Jul 11th, 2007 @ 1:51 PM
harumscarum
harumscarum
out of memory
cloak13PLAGUE wrote:


I haven't done a lot of study into Scrum but this video definately is going to get me looking at it more. I think it could really help my development shop which sometimes seems to have no meetings about projects.

Anyone have any resources on where to find out more? other than www.live.com



http://www.controlchaos.com/resources/





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