Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Agility

I have noticed some Scrum teams approaching the work of a Sprint/iteration as a “mini-waterfall”.  The work is thought of as having a progression just like a typical waterfall:

requirements gathering- -> analysis- -> design- -> coding- -> testing- -> promotion to staging… etc.

or something like that, but instead of spanning a year or so, it is applied to the work of a single 2 week iteration.  Continue reading ‘The Mini Waterfall with an Agile Team’ »

Many of us have worked with a defined process such as “The Waterfall”, and it seems like it should work – but there are numerous shortcomings that can be attributed to following this developemnt approach  and that’s what I’ll explore. Continue reading ‘Waterfall – The Evil Empire’ »