A great article by Tobias Mayer from the Agile Anarchy site, pointing out that to truly live Scrum needs a heart: This heart is the task board.
It is quite common for there to be disconnected relationships between business, the market, and software development in companies today: Whilst business interests are usually expressed in commercial terms, software or technical interests are expressed as a desire to produce the right solution. Market interests are usually expressed in economic terms, and the need of users to do a job or perform a task.
These different interests may also be brought to bear in unequal strength. This disconnectedness, especially when applied to external parties such as the market and some stakeholders, often leads to mismatched expectations and disappointment. [click to continue…]
