Scrum II

Scrum as much indicates the participation of the development team(s) as it does the involvement and commitment of the ‘everyone else’. Everyone must submit innovative controversial ideas, give honest feedback, and be willing to accept success.

Last weekend the company had a second Broadwick Day and discussed all sorts of desires for employee communication and . . . → Read More: Scrum II

life as product owner

Until recently, the decisions about what features to implement next were not always centralized. In general, the future investment and large-scale features were decided by my CEO while anything else people wanted implemented was fixed based on a ‘squeaky wheel gets the grease’ mentality.

Almost a month ago, my development manager started reading about Scrum. . . . → Read More: life as product owner

one-step deployment

one-step deployment has been a goal of ours for a long time. Our determination is renewed by the workshop last week. Cal shared with us a screenshot of the Flickr deployment interface which involves two buttons on an HTML page that deploy the current codebase to staging and/or production.

But, as I posed the question . . . → Read More: one-step deployment