A few weeks ago I spent an afternoon trawling the Scrum Development Yahoo-Group and Google trying to collate a list of questions for the Scrum FAQ that will ship with the “Agile Software Development with Scrum” Visual Studio Team System plug-in that Colin Bird, Stuart Preston, Susie Kablean and I are currently working on. I came up with a list of 60 or so questions that seemed to appear time and again. Luckily for me Ken Schwaber was in London last week helping us to teach two Certified Scrum Master courses at Beaumont House in Old Windsor (Conchango now has over 60 Certified Scrum Masters).
I managed to steal him away for a day to work on more interactive documentation for the Team System plug-in (following on from the overview of Agile Software Development on our Scrum micro-site – www.scrum-master.com) and we also recorded a series of podcasts answering the FAQ list I had created. I’m going to release the podcasts over the next few weeks – each one is going to be bite sized – weighing in at 10 minutes in length and 7Mb in size and in MP3 format.
The questions answered in Part 1 are listed below:
- What is Agile?
- What is the Agile Manifesto?
- What is the Agile Alliance?
- What is the Scrum Alliance?
- How do I become a Certified Scrum Master?
- What is a Scrum Practitioner?
- What is a Scrum Trainer?
- Where do I find a Scrum Master?
- What is Scrum?
- Why should I be thinking about adopting Scrum?
- How will Scrum affect my organisation?
- What are the benefits of using Scrum?
- How can I adopt Scrum?
- Where can I read more about Scrum?
- How do you deal with fixed-price projects?
