Tuesday, June 2, 2009
SCRUM Cheat Sheet
This is a nice one: http://www.scribd.com/doc/2370861/Scrum-Cheat-Sheet
Many thanks to the author, this will be displayed in my office!
Many thanks to the author, this will be displayed in my office!
SCRUM with offshore: use google docs!
Sharing documents among different people spread around the world is indeed a compex topic. Even more when you are either a small company with very limited IT, or a big company with drastic rules.
When I started using SCRUM with my team in Ukraine, it was difficult to have a shared and up to date sprint backlog. We used excel maintained in subversion, wiki page, but none of this worked. We ended up with a spreadsheet in google docs. I will not claim this is perfect (not as good as being all in the same room), but it does the job! The team can see what the others are doing, the burndown chart is visible, the list of tasks is clear AND FLEXIBLE. Both in terms of "who does what" and "when".
I have create a template for you to see. There's some others things we could discuss based on this spreadsheet (why is there less hours of work planned than actual development time, where is testing, ...). Feel free to ask questions in the comments.
http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=rluhZCnnOt37wjmwjmqlKJQ
When I started using SCRUM with my team in Ukraine, it was difficult to have a shared and up to date sprint backlog. We used excel maintained in subversion, wiki page, but none of this worked. We ended up with a spreadsheet in google docs. I will not claim this is perfect (not as good as being all in the same room), but it does the job! The team can see what the others are doing, the burndown chart is visible, the list of tasks is clear AND FLEXIBLE. Both in terms of "who does what" and "when".
I have create a template for you to see. There's some others things we could discuss based on this spreadsheet (why is there less hours of work planned than actual development time, where is testing, ...). Feel free to ask questions in the comments.
http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=rluhZCnnOt37wjmwjmqlKJQ
Labels: agile, management, scrum
Monday, June 1, 2009
Management: SCRUM make people happy
I will blog about SCRUM... later. For now, I just wanted to say that SCRUM actually works, and that it makes people happy on both sides (your upper management, and people working on the project).
If you are a project manager, or have any interest in project management, you should at least read the wikipedia article. Then, head to InfoQ and get the free pdf "scrum from the trenches".
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrum_(development)
InfoQ: http://www.infoq.com/minibooks/scrum-xp-from-the-trenches
If you are a project manager, or have any interest in project management, you should at least read the wikipedia article. Then, head to InfoQ and get the free pdf "scrum from the trenches".
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrum_(development)
InfoQ: http://www.infoq.com/minibooks/scrum-xp-from-the-trenches
Labels: agile, management, scrum
Mac os x: dealing with mdf, I00, I01, I02 files
OK, so the problem is: an application on PC has created a disk image made of and MDF file, and some files with extension I00, I01, I02 (...). It took me some time to find how to deal with these. Here is the simple solution:
- Download a small & simple utility called MISO-J. It is currently available here: http://penguintool.blogspot.com/2006/11/miso-j-dealing-with-multi-segment-iso.html
- Launch MISO-J, and select the MDF file. Then press "join" and select the output folder
- You will get a nice ISO. This can be burned by "disk utility", or the famous application "Burn"
Note that if you try to join files, and that the remaining ISO is bigger than 4 GB, you must use a file system that actually does support files which size is 4GB and more. This is NOT Fat32...
- Download a small & simple utility called MISO-J. It is currently available here: http://penguintool.blogspot.com/2006/11/miso-j-dealing-with-multi-segment-iso.html
- Launch MISO-J, and select the MDF file. Then press "join" and select the output folder
- You will get a nice ISO. This can be burned by "disk utility", or the famous application "Burn"
Note that if you try to join files, and that the remaining ISO is bigger than 4 GB, you must use a file system that actually does support files which size is 4GB and more. This is NOT Fat32...
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