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  • LyssaAdkins Jun 9, 2008 @ 1:36 pm | delete
    Angus:

    Squidoo has some limitations in answering posts and interacting back and forth. Would you be willing to put this same comment into my blog at:
    http://lyssaadkins.wordpress.com/2008/06/06/two-tips-to-help-product-owners-with-release-planning/

    I can't wait to answer it...there are some really straightforward reasons why planning this way works well. - Lyssa
  • Angus Jun 8, 2008 @ 12:44 am | delete
    Lyssa,

    I am responding to an article of yours on Scrum Alliance (I can 't respond there as I am not a member). I am a Program Manger of a software product with programs involving around 70 engineers and lasting up to 18 months. Lately the development organization has decided to work with scrum. I am skeptical. I have many questions but here is one to start.

    You say in the article that release planning is a matter of laying out all the stories into sprints, looking at the dependencies and so on (sounds like basic project planning to me).

    What I don't understand about this is that I understand that the details of a story are only worked out just before the sprint. So how much can I rely on this release planning if the stories making it up are very high level?
  • LyssaAdkins Dec 10, 2007 @ 11:59 am | delete
    Hi Mark:
    Refactoring, installing the latest security patch, upgrading hardware-all of these are infrastructure tasks that need to get done. 2 suggestions: 1)make the work transparent and allow the team (w. the product owner) to decide how much to do in a sprint. 2)state the work in business terms.
  • Mark Baker Dec 7, 2007 @ 5:37 pm | delete
    Hi Lyssa,
    I'm a Cert. ScrumMaster (Dec 06) and we've been using Scrum now for 1 yr on a variety of software products. One issue that's come up is how far a Team can go with re-writing or re-factoring code within a Sprint esp as it introduces risk the sprint may fail. Thoughts?

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