Comments on: Lipstick Remover… http://www.implementingscrum.com/2006/12/04/lipstick-remover/ Starting Tough Conversations about Software Development Wed, 18 Jan 2012 21:57:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: James Peckham http://www.implementingscrum.com/2006/12/04/lipstick-remover/comment-page-1/#comment-3186 James Peckham Thu, 30 Jun 2011 18:36:16 +0000 http://www.implementingscrum.com/blog/2006/12/04/lipstick-remover/#comment-3186 Mike, good stuff! this is an old post but i'm using this cartoon to discuss a point at work. If you're traveling down a dark cavern with your flashlight and you see bloodsucking bats you don't turn off your flashlight and then keep walking down the cave the exact same way. Anyhow, I liked your article and I think we all need to get teams talking about how to follow the rules in a constructive 'agile' way. As an example, if a tester is worried about 'having nothing to do' at the start of a sprint. What does that mean? Or if a TechWriter is a shared resource with another team because there is not enough work for her to keep busy, what does that mean? Mike, good stuff! this is an old post but i’m using this cartoon to discuss a point at work.

If you’re traveling down a dark cavern with your flashlight and you see bloodsucking bats you don’t turn off your flashlight and then keep walking down the cave the exact same way.

Anyhow, I liked your article and I think we all need to get teams talking about how to follow the rules in a constructive ‘agile’ way.

As an example, if a tester is worried about ‘having nothing to do’ at the start of a sprint. What does that mean?

Or if a TechWriter is a shared resource with another team because there is not enough work for her to keep busy, what does that mean?

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