Our Scrum Cycle- February 25, 2008 I've mentioned in a previous post about how our team has adopted Scrum and agile methodology... at least in spirit. :) I thought I'd share some of the specifics about how we're running it. This is primarily based on direction from our Engineering Manager, Mark Mydland. He's brought Scrum and agile to other teams, both in and out of Microsoft. At first, our sprint duration was 4 weeks. This is a very drastic change to typical Microsoft engineering. We usually break..http://blogs.msdn.com/drwill/archive/2008/02/24/our-scrum-cycle.aspx Engineering Lead- February 19, 2008 In the last six months, I've transitioned from a QA Lead to an Engineering Lead position. I'm still a persistent and tenacious driver of quality. Now I get to influence the development process as well. It is a great opportunity for me to optimize development for the benefit of quality, as well as a great career challenge. I began my career as a product support engineer. I was a temporary Microsoft employee for two years. Despite all the negativity you might...http://blogs.msdn.com/drwill/archive/2008/02/19/engineering-lead.aspx Trying Scrum- February 19, 2008 Over the last several months, our team has decided to try all this "agile" stuff we keep hearing about. In large part, our new manager is responsible for putting us on this course but many of us were curious with what it would offer and fed up with some of the problems we'd been perpetually dealing with. My biggest pet peeve was the huge bug backlog we'd always acquire. I always dreaded getting to code complete and then spending months just bug fixing. The developers hated it..http://blogs.msdn.com/drwill/archive/2008/02/19/trying-scrum.aspx |