The traditional CSM course is only two days. That's not enough time to cover the things a ScrumMaster needs to know to help their team be successful.

The team has fallen far short in the most recent iteration. What should they do?

Recent discussions on the lists inspire me to take a radical position. Or maybe it's my life. Or an accident of birth. Anyway: Agile Software Development requires software development.

Here are the existing Kate Oneal chapters, arranged in order of the story's time line.

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MUCH LATER: Organizations certainly need good productivity. Sometimes they ask for improved productivity, and a way to show that we have improved. Is this always evil?

Carl is concerned about small releases, and catches Kate in the coffee room. They talk about why small releases matter to Kate, and the both learn a bit.

Carl is concerned about small releases, and catches Kate in the coffee room. They talk about why small releases matter to Kate, and they both learn a bit.

Carl is concerned about small releases, and catches Kate in the coffee room. They talk about why small releases matter to Kate, and they both learn a bit.

"Kate" puts a word in about how things really got started, and promises to come back and sort Ron out if he needs it.

"Kate" puts a word in about how things really got started, and promises to come back and sort Ron out if he needs it.

After Dan Devlin, President of Oak River Software, dropped in on her at the coffee shop, Kate agreed to consider helping with the proposed new Empire project. Empire was life or death for Oak River. Without Empire, they'd go under, and Dan couldn't afford to fund it.

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The forum was set up as an experiment to see whether a self-sustaining forum-style site would work. This one, at least, has not. With regret, I'm shutting it down.

Organizations certainly need good productivity. Sometimes they ask for improved productivity, and a way to show that we have improved. Is this always evil?

Organizations certainly need good productivity. Sometimes they ask for improved productivity, and proof. Is this always evil?

Sustainable pace is good for your company's projects. But if your company isn't good enough for you, sustainable pace may be your only hope.

Chet and I have decided that the thing to do is to build the software page using full-on Ruby generators and get it out of the way. Here we go again.This doesn't turn out at all as we expected. Project cancelled! Has XP failed???

We start on the first story, but get into some trouble with my machine. And you're probably wondering what we're actually up to anyway ... take a look!

We review cards and letters, and we finish our first elementary story. We think we will start over. Oh, and my computer is now fast again. Read on ...