On Mon, August 7, 2006 1:05 pm, Christoph Steindl said: > I showed the plug-in to Ken Schwaber. While he liked the idea of a Scrum > plugin, he didn't like that it was based on this detailed description of > Scrum. > To quote him: "The Scrum Methodology isn't to describe Scrum > effectively, and I've often regretted writing it since it makes it look > like a methodology cookbook. As such, I certainly don't want it being > used to further describe what Scrum is."
And yet he keeps on writing...... I think that the real goal should be to provide a decent and useful overview of Scrum. We don't need to write a huge book, but a 10 page guideline would probably do it. > He also said that the Scrum plugin should me more than a redistribution > of existing material. Yes, our best bet is to summarize and then perhaps point to good resources. > > Therefore, I got into contact with Michael Vizdos (Scrum Master Trainer) > but we didn't actually do work together - at least not until now. Can we hand this effort off to Mike? - Scott > > I've also met Jim Highsmith in Munich - the idea was to create a plugin > with agile basics that could be the base for plugins with additional > techniques (like agile modeling, user-stories based estimation and > planning, technical practices, configuration management, leadership and > team development, focused improvement, retrospectives, etc.). > We wanted to stay in touch, discuss the idea at the Agile 2006 > conference and lay out the plan for future work. > > Somehow, I became bottlenecked. It's difficult to build up a new > consulting company and do a lot of other things along the side. > > If someone else (with more free capacity) likes to take over the > initiative, I'm more than willing to assist and explain what work has > already been done, who has already been involved, etc. > > Unfortunately, I don't think that I will be able to push the idea myself > in the near future. > > Christoph > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Message: 2 >> Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2006 10:48:00 -0400 (EDT) >> From: "Scott W. Ambler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Subject: Re: [epf-dev] XP/Scrum EPF plugins >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Eclipse Process Framework >> Project Developers List" <[email protected]> >> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 >> >> >> ObjectMentor was working on the XP baseline. >> >> Christoph Steindl was heading up the Scrum plug-in effort although I >> haven't heard anything from him lately. I'll ping him. >> >> - Scott >> >> On Sat, August 5, 2006 11:44 am, Chris Armstrong said: >> >>> I've heard that one or many groups outside of EPF have used Composer to >>> build XP/Scrum-like plugins. Does anyone know if this is true, and if >>> so, >>> where one would find them? >>> >>> Thanks, Chris ~:| >>> >>> Chris Armstrong ~:| >>> President >>> Armstrong Process Group, Inc. >>> 651.491.5575 c >>> 715.246.0383 f >>> www.aprocessgroup.com >>> "proven practical process" >>> > > _______________________________________________ > epf-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/epf-dev > Practice Leader Agile Development, IBM Rational http://www.ambysoft.com/scottAmbler.html Refactoring Databases ( http://www.ambysoft.com/books/refactoringDatabases.html ) is now available. _______________________________________________ epf-dev mailing list [email protected] https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/epf-dev
