Articles for Atlas

[Ron Jeffries]

We now have three GASP articles, one by Mark Levison and Charles Bradley on User Stories, and two by Dan Rawsthorne on specialized Sprints. 

We would welcome some new articles. Topics of particular interest would be more GASPs, certainly. 

We would love to see articles about combining other techniques and approaches with Scrum, such as Kanban, Lean, and so on.  These might go in the GASP section: use of a Kanban board is pretty well accepted enough, for example. They might go in commentaries. We have in mind a controversy section, and we'd welcome an opportunity to turn that on.

Are there traps into which many teams fall, that you'd like to write about -- or rant about? Are there high level issues with Agile or Scrum that need to be talked about?

Then write. We have the pipeline fairly smooth now, especially if you use styles moderately and stick to the ones we have. For a few of that, look at the Bradley / Levison User Stories GASP. It includes the new user-card format, an improved format for photos, a Q&A format and more. Generally speaking, less formatting is better. We'll be publishing some info on house style and submission forms, and they'll be reasonable both for authors and the site people. So far, the earliest authors suffered the most.

It is probably still true that simple text or markdown format is easiest for us, because of the extra stuff that Word (and to a lesser extent Pages) pushes into its HTML exports. We can probably work with whatever format you really need to write in: as part of your contact with us, start a conversation about that.

We have a Kanban board for editorial flow and one for site improvements, and we'll be making those viewable by the public very soon now. So it will be best to let us know in advance what you want to write about, so that we can make a card for you, and so that we can advise you on what else is in the pipeline, what would make the article better fit the site editorial policy, and so on. We have generally not done much formatting and even less copy editing on articles. The User Stories GASP has driven much of the recent site formatting, and therefore we have worked on it for quite a while and at rather large expense. We'll be going back over the older articles to see how they look, and we'll be cleaning those up as well. If you have already written articles for the site, feel free to check them yourself and to let us know if yours needs work. We're certain that some do.

This site is the Scrum Alliance's site for people who want to learn about Scrum. It is part of what someone needs in order to be a CSP or to keep his SEU count up. 

Your contributions will help Scrummers all over the world, and will give you a bit of visibility as well. 

So please, get those cards and letters coming in. Thanks!

Ron Jeffries

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[Rafael Sabbagh]

Hi Ron,

the articles - do they need to be written by CSTs?

I'm lucky to be friend of two of the greatest specialists in the Kanban framework here in Brazil (they're actually Accredited Kanban Trainers from the Lean-Kanban University). I believe they'd love to write something for the Atlas on combining Scrum and Kanban. Can I ask them to?

Best regards,

Rafael Sabbagh
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[Ron Jeffries]

Hi Rafael,

On Apr 4, 2013, at 12:52 PM, Rafael Sabbagh <sab...@gmail.com> wrote:

I'm lucky to be friend of two of the greatest specialists in the Kanban framework here in Brazil (they're actually Accredited Kanban Trainers from the Lean-Kanban University). I believe they'd love to write something for the Atlas on combining Scrum and Kanban. Can I ask them to?

Sure, we welcome good articles from anyone!

Ron Jeffries

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If it is more than you need, it is waste. -- Andy Seidl

[Rafael Sabbagh]

Great! :)

On Thursday, April 4, 2013, Ron Jeffries wrote:

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[Markus Gärtner]

I'm plannig to write a piece in regards of Dimensional Planning. Is anything in your pipeline on that?

Best Markus

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[Ron Jeffries]

Hi Markus,

On Apr 4, 2013, at 3:01 PM, Markus Gärtner <mgae...@gmail.com> wrote:

I'm plannig to write a piece in regards of Dimensional Planning. Is anything in your pipeline on that?

Nothing in the pipeline on that. Don't even know what it is, so we look forward to it!

Ron Jeffries

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[Sabine Canditt]

I would love to see something on Product Vision, Sprint Goal and
Definition of Ready, because these are the topics I am really missing
in the Atlas. I would even be willing to write sth about it, but I
think there are people more capable to do that. My article would be
more or less a copy of their ideas. What do you think?

I could also write sth about a Team Charter.

My articles would need review by a native English speaker. Or could I
write it in German and have it translated? :-)

Kind regards
Sabine

[Ron Jeffries]

Hi Sabine,

On Apr 5, 2013, at 6:51 AM, Sabine Canditt <sabine....@allianz.de> wrote:

I would love to see something on Product Vision, Sprint Goal and
Definition of Ready, because these are the topics I am really missing
in the Atlas. I would even be willing to write sth about it, but I
think there are people more capable to do that. My article would be
more or less a copy of their ideas. What do you think?

Well maybe you could induce those people to write with you, or to review your work. But I think everyone's ideas are welcome and we can have more than one article on a topic with no problem.

So I'd say go for it.

I could also write sth about a Team Charter.

Sure, that too ...

My articles would need review by a native English speaker. Or could I
write it in German and have it translated? :-)

We are happy to help with editing. One possibility we're looking at, thanks to Mike Cohn's discovering it, is Revisionator, which supposedly facilitates that kind of thing. Or we can just pass things back and forth, or edit in place in the site.

Ron Jeffries

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Impossible is not a fact. It is an opinion.  -- Muhammad Ali

[Markus Gaertner]

I probably can also help with English translations. And it would still help to have a native English speaker look over my crap. :)

Best

Markus

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