Is Branching a Dysfunction?

I have done source code branching with a ton of teams.  The pattern looks pretty much the same independent of what type of branching the team is doing.  “We are doing some work that we don’t want other teams to see or get impacted by.” So it goes the team creates a branch to work …

Scrum, Skill and Dead Bodies

There is a misunderstanding of Scrum and other processes and frameworks that anyone that follows the “rules” will be successful. Simply write some code in a two week Sprint and show it at the Sprint Review and magically all problems disappear. The people that believe this are missing a few key points. 1) Creation of …

Simple Scrum Diagram

Over the last few years I have found myself drawing the same Scrum diagram on the whiteboard over and over again.  A simple, no-frills, diagram that shows the basic ideas of Scrum.  This is that diagram.