{"id":34,"date":"2004-09-12T15:17:08","date_gmt":"2004-09-12T14:11:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/?p=34"},"modified":"2004-09-12T21:19:33","modified_gmt":"2004-09-12T20:19:33","slug":"why-scrum-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/?p=34","title":{"rendered":"Why Scrum Works"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Scrum, the ethos of simplicity.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Last week I gave a presentation to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.richplum.co.uk\">Developers&#8217; Group<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottishdevelopers.com\">Scottish Developers<\/a> user groups.<\/p>\n<p>I spoke about the project mangement\/control technique known as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.controlchaos.com\">Scrum<\/a>.  The session ran for over an hour and some lively debate followed.  Read more about it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottishdevelopers.com\/modules\/newbb\/viewtopic.php?topic_id=457&#038;forum=1300&#038;post_id=1794#forumpost1794\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, the slides and a sample backlog are now available <a href=\"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/sd\/\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s worth noting that for the purposes of this session I split my product backlog in to four sprints.  In reality, you probably don&#8217;t know the contents of subsequent sprints until after the last sprint has been completed.  Agility.  Flexibility.  Simplicity.  It&#8217;s all about the freedom to change the order in which requirements are turned in to working value\/functionality.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been adopting and adapting Scrum for use in my current project;  here&#8217;s an overview of what I did and what I am doing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-project-management"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}