SCRUM and Business organization

this is another conundrum. SCRUM understands that it will be a layer over the business - even though middle management has no role in SCRUM

Or does it?

check this out

How does scrum deal with Bugs

1)if you have on average the same amount of bugs every sprint then this should change the average velocity and be reflected for the future. The problem is the occasional bug that is really a PBI (some functionality not developed) this can skewer things

2)which bugs are PBI's? A good suggestion - any bug on past sprint should be entered as a PBI

3) who determines whats a bug? this is a thorny issue. I am guessing that the team should resolve this.

SCRUM Artifacts

Scrum artifacts include increments. For the life of me I dont see how this is an artifact. the increment is my work - not scrum's artifact. Some include burndowncharts. That makes more sense to me.

Another problem with scrum

I was thinking that SCRUM's aversion to documentation is based on a assumption that it's better to just try something and fail then research and document. But without that documentation , you wont have written down why an approach failed/will fail  and I am guessing there will be continuous second guessing later on on why they didn't try the other approaches.
     I am sure SCRUM will counter - we have nothing against documenting... ahem, yes you do.

 

More Excel and Dates (CSV version)

2 cases for CSV how excel picks up and formats text

top - windows culture

left - text

right- excel

excel picks up that 12/02/2012 is a date and chops of YY from the year

2012-02-14 is recognized as a date  and chops of YY from the year

15-Feb-2012-chops of YY from the year

2012/02/16 converted to default

22-12-2012 converted to default

here is more:

I have no idea why these things happen

Excel and Dates

when you enter in excel dates - if the date is in the format of the current culture then when you update the culture , the format will change.

For example if the culture is such:

and you have a s/sh such:

and then you change short format to dd-MMM-yy this will happen:

2 things happened 1) the 3rd cell changed formats 2)the 4th cell changed delimeters

even when you move the original s/sh to a different computer this is what happens

this happens with CSV also


fascinating stuff

1 GB

is 1073741824 bytes in windows