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• Cobblestones On The Road to Perdition

  The more I work with companies that are struggling with Scrum, the more I’m starting to believe that ‘hybrid’ Scrum adoptions, where people pick and choose which Scrum practices to follow and which to ignore, invariably lead to failure. Whoa! you say… Wait a minute! Agile is about doing what is right... Posted Nov 13 2009, 09:35 PM by John Clifford with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: agile, Scrum, processes, practices, methodologies

• If You Want To Improve, Stop Managing Your Problems…

  …and start solving them. Sounds great, but what does it mean? What’s the difference between managing a problem and solving it? I recently held a workshop on using Scrum to drive process improvement at CIISA 2009 , held in Guadalajara, Mexico, where I focused on using Scrum as a process improvement... Posted Sep 30 2009, 05:22 PM by John Clifford with | with no comments Filed under: agile, Scrum, processes, practices, management

• Greetings!

  Welcome to the first post on my new software development blog! Let me tell you a little about myself. I'm an experienced software developer, tester, program and project manager, QA manager, and development team manager, with over two decades of experience in high tech. I've worked at small startups... Posted Jul 14 2009, 05:53 PM by John Clifford with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: practices, planning