Lately, I asked myself why I like Scrum most. I’m a big fan of Scrum because of a lot of things. So I asked myself: “What is the root cause of all these”.

I tracked it down to two main things:

1. Focus
2. Feedback

I’ll come back to that later.

I’m also a big fan of Test Driven Development. Guess what,  I performed a root cause analysis on TDD, too. And once again:

1. Focus
2. Feedback

After that, I asked myself: “Are there other things I like with these root causes?”.

Yes there are:

• Playing Volleyball and Gaming in general: focus on playing (one round after another), feedback (you win or lose)
• Playing Saxophone: focus on playing (I forget everything else while playing, believe me), feedback (you hear what you play and you either like it or or you try harder)

So it seems, I’m addicted to the Focus-Feedback drug :-O

Methodology, Test Driven Development Feedback, Focus, scrum, TDD, Test Driven Development

Some people share the opinion that scrum and other agile development methods are easily maintainable with pencil and post-it only. Nonetheless there is a growing list of software solutions which support scrum methodology. Boris Gloger from Scrum 4 You publishes regularly reviews of scrum tools on his blog. I strongly recommend to take a look at his website and the scrum tools list!

http://scrum4you.wordpress.com/2009/03/01/scrum-tools-list/

http://scrum4you.wordpress.com

Methodology, Software Agile, boris gloger, scrum, scrum4you, tools