Archive for July, 2007

Alistair Cockburn on what’s agile, what’s not

Tuesday, July 17th, 2007

Alistair Cockburn, creator of the Crystal methodology, speaks with Colleen Frye on what is and is not agile software development in this interview.

The Roots of Scrum

Wednesday, July 11th, 2007

In a 60-minute JAOO 2005 talk, Scrum creator Dr. Jeff Sutherland covers the history of Scrum from its inception thru his participation with Ken Schwaber in rolling out Scrum to industry, to its impact at Easel, Fuji-Xerox, Honda, WildCard, Lexus, Google. He looks at Scrum types A, B and “all at once” type C, and confirms the humorous rumour that Kent Beck “stole” Scrum practices when creating XP.