我所在公司是个百年名企,和很多startup company相比,组织结构庞大臃肿,headcount绝对超过150法则所建议的神奇数字150(该法则认为将组织规模控制在150人以下命令才得以执行团体才能良性互动),而且凡事讲究process,对客户需求的response难免迟缓滞后,这在如今事事讲究速度效率强调快速反应的时代,这头巨象的转身自然不如土狼迅捷灵敏,尤其在行业利润日益稀薄的大趋势下,在各方豪杰名士土狼的环伺下,市场占有率,竞争力自然今非昔比。大概也是基于此,公司上层才会积极拥抱各类新概念,掀起一轮又一轮项目管理执行的evolution, revolution罢,可惜,往往是形似神不似。
Recently when I have still suffered the deployment of streamline development and doubted the benefits of it, there comes a new strategy to pilot and deploy agile in our project management. Sure, It is trendy that everybody talking about the agile and scrum. But what agile really is? How to scrum? How to adapt to this new concept, new way of working? How big benefit it will bring to our company? What are the obstacles we face? There is still no clear answer. We all are just learning when we swim.
This book can be viewed as good practices, I really learn something from this book, at least, not in theoretical level while combined abstract noun/theory with concrete example in reality. When I finished reading, I am clearer about agile and scrum. However, here I don’t want to get into the details what and how I learn from this book, how good this book is. I just select some interesting jargons from this book, I heard them somewhere else previously. In order to know them more: background, origin, story and meaning etc, I google them to get deeper understanding. You can view it as “买椟还珠”: I buy the glittering casket and return the pearls to the seller. I don’t care to be a modern version of 楚人。
Yesterday’s weather:
This is the principle that says you'll get as much done today as you got done yesterday. In iterative projects it says that you should plan to do as much this iteration as you did last iteration. The term comes from the Extreme Programming community. It is technique to make our future plans based on what we know.
Origin: Some country decides to build a sophisticated computer system to predict the weather. After spending more money than people can imagine, they come up with wonderful result - and proudly claim that the system is 70% accurate. Somebody then figures out that in this country if you predict today's weather will be the same as yesterday's weather you will be 69.5% accurate.
The point of course is that while Yesterdays Weather is a crude mechanism, it ends up being not significantly less accurate than more sophisticated (i.e. complicated) ways of doing it.
“Chickens and Pigs” metaphor:
It comes from the idea of a project to make breakfast of bacon and eggs. The Chicken suggests that the two involve themselves in a scheme making breakfast of bacon and eggs. In reply, the Pig always notes that, for the Chicken, only a contribution is required as a chicken can simply lay an egg and then resume normal activities, while for the Pig a "total commitment" (or total sacrifice) is needed as in order to make ham or bacon, the pig must be slaughtered. This example simply illustrates that being involved may mean being a participant with little or no effort, while being committed takes time and energy, and means much more than just being involved.
This fable is commonly referenced in the Agile software development community to illustrate two types of project members: pigs, who are totally committed to the project and accountable for its outcome, and chickens, who consult on the project and are informed of its progress.
Gut feeling:
A feeling that you are certain is right, even if you cannot explain why.
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scrum的实践指南
8有用 0无用 xiao_p 2009-02-27
首先,个人觉得这是一本不错的小书。说它小,是因为这本书很薄,100多页吧,无非就是程序开发那点事。说它不错,是因为它很实用,没什么花哨的东西。其次,这是一本scrum的实施指南。周围的很多程序员,看了太多的敏捷的思想,听了太多的敏捷的原则,xp、scrum、sprint更是耳熟能详,我想,我们缺少的...
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重读后的反思
4有用 0无用 Harry 2010-03-21
这本书的实用不用我来废话了。我的team已经使用scrum有段时间了,今天我又重读了部分章节,现在是一个根据我的个人经验,反思我所在team的scrum实践所存在的不足。1. 我们混淆了backlog的真正意义,他是产品负责人提出的,从业务角度出发的,可以demo的故事;但是我们的往往是开发人员根据...
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从战壕中带来的Scrum与XP敏捷实践
3有用 0无用 Jason Lai 2008-03-06
非常不错的一本书。关于敏捷方法的理论和介绍,可以说已经要汗牛充栋了,目前被人们广泛承认的敏捷方法也有一定的数量了。但是如何去敏捷,也许一千个组织有一千种各自迥异的实践方式。没有哪一种敏捷实践告诉你要完全按照它所描述的章章条条照本宣科,也没有哪个组织所实施的敏捷实践会是银弹,更不用说是放之四海皆准的最...
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实用的指导书
2有用 0无用 加浓胖虫 2009-11-04
这本书是一口气看完的, 字里行间都能够体会到硝烟弥漫.感觉这本书更像是一种CookBook, Scrum 是一种灵活的框架, 它没有那么多的繁文缛节, 在每一个不同的team里, 在同一个team的不同项目中, Scrum都在演变, 都在进化. 我觉得在众多的Scrum文章和书籍中,真的缺少这种详细...
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Scrum学习之买椟还珠版
1有用 1无用 songsing 2008-03-18
我所在公司是个百年名企,和很多startup company相比,组织结构庞大臃肿,headcount绝对超过150法则所建议的神奇数字150(该法则认为将组织规模控制在150人以下命令才得以执行团体才能良性互动),而且凡事讲究process,对客户需求的response难免迟缓滞后,这在如今事事讲...
书名: 硝烟中的Scrum和XP
作者: Henrik Kniberg
出版社: infoQ
副标题: 我们如何实施Scrum
译者: 李剑
出版年: 2008
页数: 133
ISBN: 9789781430329