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During one of the Open Space sessions I attended at the Scrum Gathering in 2006 I put forward the analogy of "Painting by Numbers" Architecture, which is my take on how Architecture should be handled on an Agile project. The basic premise is Read More...

After the success of the courses we ran in July, we're running them again this September. I was fortunate enough to attend both the User Stories and Agile Estimation and Planning sessions (I'm already a CSM) and found that they resolved a lot Read More...

There's a really fascinating video up on Channel 9 about the Visual Studio 2005 SDK team, Phil Taylor talks about the product and his team's approach, using Scrum to enable them to deliver monthly CTP drops and larger releases every quarter to synchronise Read More...

In the last year there has been lots of talk about Type A, B and C Scrum (well, really types of Sprints, in type A the Sprints are isolated cycles, in type B Sprints are overlapping cycles and in type C Sprints happpen all at once) – when I first read Read More...

Today marks the end of Sprint 6 of development for " Scrum for Team System ". This release is targeted against Team Foundation Server Release Candidate - it will not work on any previous version of Team Foundation Server. We've spent a lot of time improving Read More...

After I released the Agile Software Development with Scrum Podcast Series I found a referral from a post by Bernie Thompson saying that he really enjoyed the podcasts but would like a community effort to transcribe them. I always intended the FAQ to be Read More...

I created a series of screen capture walkthrough guides to show people on the Beta Program how to use the Scrum Plug-in for Team System. I will be making more available on the "General Discussion" area of the forum as soon as I have time. But I thought Read More...