by James Wright | Nov 8, 2024 | Agile in Real Life, Scrum guidelines, Uncategorized
When I first took an Agile class many years ago, I was taught that the optimal team size was 7, plus or minus 2 — so anywhere between 5 and 9 members. Fast forward a few years, and the Scrum Guide adjusted this to: “the optimal team size is between 3 to 9 people.” The...
by James Wright | Aug 30, 2015 | Agile in Marketing, Agile in Real Life, Agile in Strategy, Agile Principles
If you ask a software developer, “What’s the most important thing in Scrum?” He will probably say without too much hesitation something like, “Regular delivery of working code.” That working code is delivered in a ‘ceremony’ called the Sprint Review. Each Sprint (a...
by James Wright | Feb 8, 2014 | Agile in Real Life
I was the director of strategic business development at Iomega in the late 1990s. Among other things, I was the lead contract negotiator for big agreements. I spent most of that time doing license and associated agreements, but I also did M&A, purchase, joint...
by James Wright | Sep 24, 2013 | Agile in Real Life
Back in the summer of 1987, I was a college student who built custom PCs and wrote software to make money for living expenses and road trips. I had a small set of clients, one of which was a local office of a large advertising company. I wrote an application that...
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