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Beware of the Obvious

Posted by Christophe on July 31, 2008

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We invited our whole sales team to participate to our sprint demo showcasing work done for them.
Barely anyone showed up.

Why?

Because they thougth it was a demo about cell phones (Sprint PCS). Duh!

Beware of the obvious – interact and validate everyone is on the same page.

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Jeff Surtherland on “Lessons Learned at Google”

Posted by Christophe on July 6, 2008

In this video, Jeff does a retrospective on Google’s first Scrum implementation. He visited Google to do an analysis of the first Google implementation of Scrum on one of their largest distributed projects. Their strategy for inserting Scrum step by step into the Google engineering teams showed great insight and provides helpful lessons learned for all Agile teams.

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