Software Engineering Radio

Recording Venue: Skype

Guest: Rini van Solingen

In this episode we talk with Rini van Solingen, the author of the book “The Power of Scrum”, about scrum and agile software development in distributed settings where the team is spread across different locations, different buildings or even different countries and continents. We reflect about the basic concepts and assumptions of agile software development and what makes it difficult to do real agile software development when the team members are not co-located. Walking through the different areas we also discuss different cultures, team building for distributed teams, what it means to use video conferencing or other technology to overcome the communication problems of distributed teams and why you should probably not start as a distributed team.

• The Power of Scrum book
• The ” Violent Scrum Master” movie (will be added) 
• GSE research @ Delft University
• Perception of distance
• Distributed Scrum
• Global software teams
• Thomas J. Allen
• Emergent Architecture
• Conway’s law
• Fully distributed Scrum
• ICGSE
• Jeff Sutherland on Scrum
• The century of Scrum (Steve Denning Blog on Forbes)
• Patrick Lencioni on teams
• 5 dysfunctions of a team book
• Hofstede’s cultural dimensions
• Rini’s website
• Rini’s YouTube channel
• Rini at Twitter: @solingen
• Contact Rini via email

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In this episode we talk with Rini van Solingen about scrum and agile software development in distributed settings.

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Guest(s): Roman Pichler

Host(s): Alexander
This episode features Scrum, a very popular Agile software development framework. We interview Roman Pichler, a Certified ScrumMaster Trainer and independent consultant. Roman explains the principles behind Scrum, its roles and its key practices. He also answers FAQs. This episode continues our track on software development processes discussing an additional Agile method.
Roman is currently writing a book on Scrum in German that provides more in-depth information of the topics discussed in the podcast. The book will be available in autumn 2007 published by d.punkt (Heidelberg, Germany).

Links:

• The Scrum Alliance Web Site
• Ken Schwaber, Mike Beedle: Agile Software Development with SCRUM, Prentice Hall, 2001
• Ken Schwaber: Agile Project Management with Scrum, Microsoft Press. 2004
• Ken Schwaber: Scrum et al. Google Video
• Roman’s Web Site

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This episode features Scrum, a very popular Agile software development framework. We interview Roman Pichler, a Certified ScrumMaster Trainer and independent consultant. Roman explains the principles behind Scrum, its roles and its key practices. He also answers FAQs. This episode continues our track on software development processes discussing an additional Agile method. Roman is currently ...

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Guest(s):
Host(s): Alexander Arno
In this episode Arno and Alex talk about the basics of software development processes. They discuss why and when software development processes are needed and also why some developers don’t like them. They discuss the theories behind different processes and talk about defined vs empiric processes in general. This episode is the first in a row that will later on describe specific processes like eXtreme programming or the unified process.

Links:

• XP on the Web
• Schwaber, Beedle: Agile Software Development with Scrum
• Scrum on the Web
• Poppendieck: Lean Software Development
• Homepage of Mary Poppendieck
• Kent Beck: Extreme programming explained
• Cockburn: Agile Software Development

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In this episode Arno and Alex talk about the basics of software development processes. They discuss why and when software development processes are needed and also why some developers don't like them. They discuss the theories behind different processes and talk about defined vs empiric processes in general. This episode is the first in ...