One of the biggest hurdles in transitioning to scrum is getting everyone- especially the dev team- on the same page. Sprint planning and even scrum meetings can be painfully boring and seem useless. There’s a lack of understanding of what to do, communication is either too little or too much, and a few people bad mouth the process and continue their heads down development. You’re left wondering what’s the point- thinking it’s never going to work. Well, have faith: proper task management is key in making scrum work for you and your team. Task management is an aspect of scrum that’s entirely contained within the dev group, which makes implementation a lot easier. Read More
Monthly Archive for March, 2009
You’ve seen this problem before- you deploy a new version of your website but the style is off and you’re getting weird javascript errors. You know the issue: Firefox or IE is caching and old version of the css/js file and it’s screwing up the web app. The user needs to clear the cache so the latest version is pulled. The solution: versionstamp your include files!