Agile Scrum Podcast

This month we had the pleasure of listening to Michael Bourque (Director of Software Development for Parametric Technology Inc) as he presented the concepts of Agile Scrum and showed us why so many people are now deploying Scrum in their development projects. During his presentation Michael took us through the Scrum process and talked about how PTC is successfully applying Agile Scrum.

About 30 BostonPHP members attended - if you weren't one of them you can Listen Now!.

This podcast runs about 90 minutes - you can download the slides here: what_is_scrum 788.67 Kb.

Scrum is one of the fastest-growing Agile methodologies used to rapidly develop products in shorter time and that meets the ever changing needs of todays business.

It was formalized over a decade ago by Ken Schwaber and Dr. Jeff Sutherland, and it's now being used by companies large and small, including Yahoo!, Microsoft, Google, Lockheed Martin, Motorola, SAP, Cisco, GE Medical, CapitalOne and the US Federal Reserve. Many teams using Scrum report significant improvements, and in some cases complete transformations, in both productivity and morale. For product developers - many of whom have been burned by the "management fad of the month club" - this is significant. Scrum is simple, powerful, and rooted in common sense.