Comments on: Agile (tools) for the enterprise? http://blog.xebia.com/2008/08/13/700/ Software development done right! Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:41:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Marion http://blog.xebia.com/2008/08/13/700/#comment-51935 Marion Tue, 02 Sep 2008 12:22:25 +0000 http://blog.xebia.com/?p=700#comment-51935 Hi there, I would like to suggest you another tool for Scrum. It's called Agilo for Scrum, and it's based on Trac. The good thing is that it's open source :-) Here you can find out more: http://www.agile42.com/cms/pages/download/ Have a nice day Marion Hi there,

I would like to suggest you another tool for Scrum. It’s called Agilo for Scrum, and it’s based on Trac. The good thing is that it’s open source :-)
Here you can find out more: http://www.agile42.com/cms/pages/download/

Have a nice day
Marion

]]> By: Martin Schapendonk http://blog.xebia.com/2008/08/13/700/#comment-50444 Martin Schapendonk Tue, 19 Aug 2008 11:19:26 +0000 http://blog.xebia.com/?p=700#comment-50444 Hi Barre, Interesting... there are quite some articles and books about scaling Scrum from the team's perspective (multiple teams, Scrum-of-Scrums), but there's not so much info about scaling from the Product Owner's perspective (program management, multiple projects). Certainly no trivial task to catch all these relationships in a tool. Furthermore, what problem are you trying to solve? If there are too many programs, projects, teams, and dependencies to keep track of things, maybe it's just time to cancel a few? :-) Martin Hi Barre,

Interesting… there are quite some articles and books about scaling Scrum from the team’s perspective (multiple teams, Scrum-of-Scrums), but there’s not so much info about scaling from the Product Owner’s perspective (program management, multiple projects).

Certainly no trivial task to catch all these relationships in a tool. Furthermore, what problem are you trying to solve? If there are too many programs, projects, teams, and dependencies to keep track of things, maybe it’s just time to cancel a few? :-)

Martin

]]> By: Markus Kohler http://blog.xebia.com/2008/08/13/700/#comment-50039 Markus Kohler Thu, 14 Aug 2008 20:48:51 +0000 http://blog.xebia.com/?p=700#comment-50039 Hi Barre, I can confirm that big companies use Scrum. And yes dependencies between projects are a problem. Really big companies often build their own tools ;) On the other side it can help very much too only depend on interfaces. Then in the beginning stubs for these interfaces can be implement. This is probably necessary in large projects anyway because otherwise there would be too much people waiting for something to be delivered. Regards, Markus Hi Barre,
I can confirm that big companies use Scrum.
And yes dependencies between projects are a problem.

Really big companies often build their own tools ;)

On the other side it can help very much too only depend on interfaces. Then in the beginning stubs for these interfaces can be implement.

This is probably necessary in large projects anyway because otherwise there would be too much people waiting for something to be delivered.

Regards,
Markus

]]> By: Victor Szalvay http://blog.xebia.com/2008/08/13/700/#comment-49914 Victor Szalvay Wed, 13 Aug 2008 17:41:27 +0000 http://blog.xebia.com/?p=700#comment-49914 Hi Barre, Thanks for this write up and for your feedback. I am the Product Owner of ScrumWorks Pro and I'm happy to say that we are currently working on features to address exactly the issues you've outlined. I can't get into the specifics yet, but suffice it to say we are looking at cross-Product Releases, cross-Product Themes, and the many-to-many relationship between Products, Programs, and their constituent Teams. We will also address interdependence issues in release planning. Until lately, the stumbling block for tool makers like us is the lack of feedback from big enterprises trying to do Scrum. Now that more and more companies are going this direction, we are getting valuable suggestions on how to build an effective tool. We hope to provide these tools in the next release of ScrumWorks Pro. Best regards, -- Victor Szalvay Hi Barre,

Thanks for this write up and for your feedback. I am the Product Owner of ScrumWorks Pro and I’m happy to say that we are currently working on features to address exactly the issues you’ve outlined. I can’t get into the specifics yet, but suffice it to say we are looking at cross-Product Releases, cross-Product Themes, and the many-to-many relationship between Products, Programs, and their constituent Teams. We will also address interdependence issues in release planning.

Until lately, the stumbling block for tool makers like us is the lack of feedback from big enterprises trying to do Scrum. Now that more and more companies are going this direction, we are getting valuable suggestions on how to build an effective tool. We hope to provide these tools in the next release of ScrumWorks Pro.

Best regards,
– Victor Szalvay

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