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My colleague Ade Miller at Microsoft just published a paper titled Distributed Agile Development at Microsoft patterns & practices. I had a chance to read draft versions of the paper and find it a good read.
The fourth question in Scrum is used for helping identify early risks in new teams that may not surface through more traditional approaches.
"Are you done yet?"
The answer to this question may sink your career, your team and your project. If you respond with a "yes," you may be forced to take on additional work. If you say "no," you may be branded as someone who can't get things done.
We put a lot of emphasis on being Renaissance workers, able to step comfortably from one job role to the next. But, as Mitch Lacey describes here, not all roles play nicely with each other, and trying to combine them may lead to disaster.
I partnered with Claudia Sargento from Semana Informatica on an article on Scrum and Agile.
