Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible
-- St. Francis Of Assisi
-- St. Francis Of Assisi
Wednesday, December 11, 2013
"Scrum and XP from the trenches - How We Do Scrum" by Henrik Kniberg
Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, Sprint Planning Meetings, Reviews, Retrospectives and Daily Scrums. Do a little search on Scrum and terms seem to topple on to each other. Yet, very few places seem to offer any advice to anyone wanting to embark on the Scrum journey for the first time in his or her life.
Henrik Kniberg's "Scrum and XP from the trenches - How We Do Scrum" is one such book that I am currently reading. You can download it from http://www.infoq.com/minibooks/scrum-xp-from-the-trenches. I am really thinking about getting a hard copy of it. The author has got an experience of going through multiple Scrum projects and experimenting with different techniques when it comes to important parts of Scrum. He has made sure that all that he has learnt is brought to the reader for his/her benefit. To give you an example of how painstaking his effort has been - he advises us not to forget to attach the post-it notes to the wall using real tape to prevent them from tumbling to the floor in a neat pile one day!
Apart from this, the book is replete with valuable practical tips - both DOs and DON'Ts - when it comes to using Scrum. It doesn't hurt that the language is very friendly - you cannot help but feel that you are talking to someone while having your mid-noon cuppa tea. And all this is wrapped up in easily digestible pieces - which won't put you to a deep sleep, take my word for it.
If I have to recommend one book to someone wanting to do their next project using Scrum, I would go for this one for sure.
Henrik Kniberg's "Scrum and XP from the trenches - How We Do Scrum" is one such book that I am currently reading. You can download it from http://www.infoq.com/minibooks/scrum-xp-from-the-trenches. I am really thinking about getting a hard copy of it. The author has got an experience of going through multiple Scrum projects and experimenting with different techniques when it comes to important parts of Scrum. He has made sure that all that he has learnt is brought to the reader for his/her benefit. To give you an example of how painstaking his effort has been - he advises us not to forget to attach the post-it notes to the wall using real tape to prevent them from tumbling to the floor in a neat pile one day!
Apart from this, the book is replete with valuable practical tips - both DOs and DON'Ts - when it comes to using Scrum. It doesn't hurt that the language is very friendly - you cannot help but feel that you are talking to someone while having your mid-noon cuppa tea. And all this is wrapped up in easily digestible pieces - which won't put you to a deep sleep, take my word for it.
If I have to recommend one book to someone wanting to do their next project using Scrum, I would go for this one for sure.
X-Files, Season 8, Episode 'Badala'
I really hated this one. Right from the way the Mumbai Airport was portrayed - I doubt that there have been any beggars moving about in droves in any Indian airport at any time in history, let alone in 2001 when this episode must have been aired - to the disgusting plot that a man endowed with special powers, a Fakir if you may, avenges deaths of innocents by entering the body of the culprits from their rear ends and then existing the body, thereby killing them. The whole episode smacked very strongly of racial bias. Absolutely unpardonable!
Having said that, as the season 8 is drawing to a close, I find myself losing patience with Agent Scully. She seems to be walking about with a perpetual air of superiority over Agent John Doggett. Granted that she is more experienced in matters that are sort of 'out there' but her transformation from a healthy skeptic and a doctor who doesn't believe in anything that the medical science cannot prove to an agent who admonishes John for not having an open mind when he displays the same kind of skepticism is rather sudden. I am also growing tired of Fox Mulder's abduction. I think it is time to bring his story to a logical conclusion the way his sister Samantha's was. Now that he is found dead, please let him stay dead.
With a couple of more episodes to go before the Season Finale, I hope it is at the end of this season rather than at the end of the last.
Having said that, as the season 8 is drawing to a close, I find myself losing patience with Agent Scully. She seems to be walking about with a perpetual air of superiority over Agent John Doggett. Granted that she is more experienced in matters that are sort of 'out there' but her transformation from a healthy skeptic and a doctor who doesn't believe in anything that the medical science cannot prove to an agent who admonishes John for not having an open mind when he displays the same kind of skepticism is rather sudden. I am also growing tired of Fox Mulder's abduction. I think it is time to bring his story to a logical conclusion the way his sister Samantha's was. Now that he is found dead, please let him stay dead.
With a couple of more episodes to go before the Season Finale, I hope it is at the end of this season rather than at the end of the last.
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