Point2 is Rolling with Scrum

It’s been a while since my last post.  I’ve been super busy with all the changes happening around here, but things are settling down now.  What’s new you ask?  Scrum is rolling and it’s as great now as it was every other time I’ve been part of a true Agile/Scrum environment.We are just wrapping up a pilot sprint that was run for one of the products with a smaller team. They hit their jellybean targets — jellybeans are used to estimate how much work a team can accomplish — and are wrapping things up with a full integration and regression test cycle and preparing for the next sprint. The development team, which comprises the gamut of skill sets that are required to make a truly cross functional team, are crazy excited about this new way of working.  For the first time they are involved in every step of the process from planning to QA and development and are encouraged to find ways to continuously improve.  We’re all embracing change.We will be starting our first official sprint on Feb 19th which will include all Point2 NLS related products.  The scrum area where our daily stand-ups happen is in the final stages of construction.  By the 5th we will have 25 feet of whiteboard and cork-board space for collaborating and tracking the project, bookshelves for our technical library, and several tables on top of which will be the planned tasks and story cards. I’ll post pictures.