Hi all,
Quick announcement…
I have a few seats still available for my Certified ScrumMaster Workshop in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, next Wednesday and Thursday (January 16-17, 2008).
For details on how the workshop is conducted, please read more about it here or directly from the Scrum Alliance Site.
If you’d like to enroll, you can go directly here. You will also be able to look at upcoming public courses (or workshops) that I will be conducting around the world in the near future.
If you are interested in helping me setup a public (or private) course or workshop, please contact me and we can talk more about it. I can basically go anywhere in the world except for about 12 places the current administration of the US government says I cannot go. Sometimes I guess it pays not to be an American (smile).
Thank you and now back to our regularly scheduled blog entries (whatever those are!).
Have a great day!
PS -> If you just want to hang out and meet after the workshop one day to talk shop, let me know and I will see if we can coordinate it together.
So today we are talking about something called Agile Modeling.
It is a concept that has been spearheaded in our industry by a guy named Scott Ambler. It is not some place for hot young women to send their modeling portfolios (when I worked with Scott, this happened on many occasions [if there are hot women who want to send me their pics please send them here (smile)]).
Sorry got a bit off topic.
So.
What is this Agile Modeling stuff and how does it pertain to Scrum?
Think about how we do things in Scrum (and a lot of other agile software development techniques).
We inspect and adapt.
Agile Modeling uses a lot of the same concepts.
Except this is looking at the documentation and modeling techniques within agile software development.
Something that Scrum does not really talk about but it something that is needed when actually developing software for a living.
There is a concept called Agile Modeling Driven Development (AMDD). More information about it can be found here.
Read it. Learn it. Use it.
Really. It is an incredible resource for agile teams.
One of the things that irks me (bad) when I walk into an agile team and they say, “Oh, we are using Scrum we do not DO documentation.”
What?
Ug.
Everyone does.
We do some type of modeling throughout the entire project lifecycle; this includes project initiation (or startup or “Sprint Zero”), during Sprint Planning, and on a just-in-time basis throughout a Sprint (Scott calls this “model storming”).
And this leads to Agile Modeling. Something more of us can all learn a little more about.
It will also help keep you out of heat with your “Compliance People.” You can read a little more about that here.
And what about this reference to Luke and Leia in the cartoon this week?
Ah.
You will have to keep coming back to learn more about that connection.
The plot thickens.
Have a great day!
Gotta run!.Please send comments, questions, criticisms, ideas, or whatever here.
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January 8, 2008
I sincerely appreciate it.
And please feel free to help me pass on the word about this site to your friends and co-workers around the world who may be interested in the new — and existing — rich content on this site about Scrum and how I see things when working with clients around the world and training new ScrumMasters for their roles.
Today I am going to start with an introduction of a new character for our site. All of the other characters are introduced in more detail here.
His name is Scott Ambler and he has been one of my personal mentors for many years. We co-wrote a book a few years ago and have traveled to some pretty cool places on the globe over the years. In addition to Scott being a friend and mentor, he has also published about 20 books (either as author or co-author) and now, as he likes to say, “IBM joined me.” He now works for IBM as an Agile Practice Lead (pretty cool job I think) and we still keep in touch.
His profile can be found at www.ambysoft.com/scottAmbler.html.
So why have I included him as a character on this site?
He knows a lot about various different agile methodologies. In fact, he is the leader in the industry on a lot of them (because like Ken Schwaber, Scott Ambler has helped get the word out about different agile software development methods).
And.
He is a bit on the controversial side. For instance, he is not a big fan of the current certification model that I (and others) teach; this should add some good content for the cartoons (smile).
Sorta like I approach things in life.
Coincidence?
Hmmm.
So, starting tomorrow you will get an introduction to the character that is Scott Ambler in the first official cartoon for 2008 on implementingscrum.com.
This should be another fun year.
Hang on for the ride.
Get involved.
And help us all learn more about Scrum and other agile methodologies.
And remember, like the other characters, what Tony and I say in the cartoons use purely artistic license and may not reflect their real world views or opinions.
Gotta run!.Please send comments, questions, criticisms, ideas, or whatever here.
You can also enter The Scrum Community to discuss this entry and other Scrum topics. Thank you!
January 7, 2008
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