[PLUG-Devel] Scrum anyone?

[Alan Dayley]

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In my current work environment there is very little chance of
implementing XP.  I'm not a proponent of XP.  However, Scrum != XP.  I
think Scrum would be good for our work and I would have a chance of
getting permission to implement it.  In fact, I could implement a lot of
it without telling anyone it is part of an overall system, if needed.

Our situation is a little different.  We produce and sell hardware.  So
the product has embedded code that is highly dependent on the hardware
design.  Even testing code, etc. is dependent on hardware (product, test
fixtures, etc.)  I'm not sure how doing software with Scrum will
integrate with hardware development.  All the documentation talks about
Scrum as a purely software methodology.

But, several of the presentations discuss the principles have been
applied at Toyota for many years.  Toyota obviously designs hardware.
So, I have hope that it can work in our environment.

Alan

Josh Coffman wrote:
> Scrum is an Agile like practice. Personally I've found that the software approach that works best varies by market and type of project.
> IE: Agile isn't good for software that runs Nuclear Facilities due to the regulation and risk from a catastrophe. However, it works pretty well in 
> web based projects and internal products. I'm still learning this stuff and how to apply what and when.
> 
> Kent Beck has good XP books; I'm not sure about anything specific to Scrum.
> 
> -j
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Alan Dayley <alandd at consultpros.com>
> To: List for Linux development and software engineering discussions. <plug-devel at lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us>
> Sent: Saturday, December 30, 2006 3:24:46 PM
> Subject: [PLUG-Devel] Scrum anyone?
> 
> After hearing some netcasts and watching some of the "TechTalks" on
> Google video, I am becoming very interested in Scrum.
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrum_%28development%29)
> 
> Aside from the videos I have also found some good documentation and
> presentations from various sources.  While I feel like I am learning
> much, I have no practical application experience.
> 
> So, who here uses scrum?  What is good?  What is bad?
> 
> I am willing to drive a discussion of the topic at the January 4th Devel
> Meeting next week, unless someone else has another topic they'd like to
> present.  It'd be good to have people who use it present in the discussion.
> 
> Alan
> 

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