Last week I was at two events about Scrum, organized by Microsoft and Fullsix Portugal.
The first was called Scrum for Managers and was presented by Mitch Lacey (from Ascentium). I never enjoyed project management (actually, I think it's more 'I always hated it!'), probably because in college I had a really bad experience and then never quite got into it. I've been in touch with some agile methodologies, but I never got in touch with Scrum. Mitch's session blew me away! Was REALLY good, he's a great presenter, and I finally enjoyed something about project management. The thing is that Scrum really is Fun! And makes perfect sense in today's world of software development, where requirements keep on changing and customers expect this requirements with little time or cost impact.
The second one was called Scrum + Team Foundation Server and was presented by Jim Morris (also from Ascentium). It was my first hands-on contact with TFS and it looks nice. I'm used to SVN (for source control) + NAnt (build) + CruiseControl (integration), but the idea of having all of these functionalities integrated in one environment is really appealing. Also, the support for Agile project management and Scrum in TFS makes it possible to have the management part of the project integrated with the development experience. The one thing that didn't really convinced me was the source control interface provided by TFS. At the moment I'm very SVN biased. A big thanks to Jim for keeping this event very interesting (and for a nice car ride by the sea :)) .
Can't wait to be on a Scrum project!
Read the complete post at http://blogs.fullsix.pt/blogs/ricardofiel/archive/2008/02/08/scrum-is-fun-and-tfs-looks-nice.aspx