Archives for October 2007

Research, Spikes, Tracer Bullets, Oh My!

A couple of years ago, a team that I was working on as ScrumMaster had a discussion on what is a spike versus research versus tracer bullets.  The reason for the discussion was how loosely we used these terms with our current customer.  It was confusing to both the customer and us.  It also allowed [...]

Building a Definition of Done

Joe, the Developer, waltzed into work one sunny Tuesday morning and was approached by Kenny, the Project Manager, asking if the feature Joe was working on was done. Joe had checked in his code to their shared source code repository yesterday afternoon and had unit tested it before doing so. With an emphatic [...]