Attendees: Wake Forest, Notre Dame, Georgia Tech, Clemson, Cornell

Wake Forest – Moving from 2 week to 3 week sprints, response to more people taking PTO, planning taking a whole day, increased focus on improvement efforts, didn’t leave many work days. Hope to have more breathing room for planning the next sprint. Also working on involving customers earlier, evaluating complexity vs. hours on user stories – implications on velocity.

Notre Dame – Scrum training end of the month. New project kicking off, year long effort hope to use Scrum, space identified, team identified.

Georgia Tech – Not much new to report. Integrating Scrum techniques in some short-term efforts.

Clemson – 30-27 is not too bad of a score, could have been worse 

Cornell – Wrapping up Sprint #10 on Advancement project, originally was 8 and added 2 more sprints working with customer. Organization seems committed to Scrum, working to identify next project.

Question – Pilot project in Agile, adjusting to lack of hard dates, difference from waterfall. Do we have hard dates? Yes – dictated by windows of opportunity, e.g. academic calendar. Scrum process provides for better solution, closer to what customer wants when you do reach the due date. Key is that you’re delivering highest priority functionality. Concept of “change for free”.

Note – Large group questionnaire went out, hoping for feedback. Meeting will be the 25th, Kristine will send out notice. She has a spreadsheet of people who have expressed interest – 20 schools, 50 people total.