http://www.silverstripe.co.nz/home/ http://www.silverstripe.co.nz/blog/12-years-at-silverstripe-q-and-a-with-the-founders/#PageComment_37739 Well done, 12 years sounds like no mean feat. In comparison I've just started out, been in business for two years. I love open source technology, I'll be giving this a try in the near future. Fri, 04 May 2012 01:14:17 +1200 Graham Walker http://www.silverstripe.co.nz/blog/12-years-at-silverstripe-q-and-a-with-the-founders/#PageComment_37739 http://www.silverstripe.co.nz/blog/12-years-at-silverstripe-q-and-a-with-the-founders/#PageComment_37738 Kudos for your completion of 12 years. Way to go. Wed, 02 May 2012 22:30:51 +1200 Web Design Bangalore http://www.silverstripe.co.nz/blog/12-years-at-silverstripe-q-and-a-with-the-founders/#PageComment_37738 http://www.silverstripe.co.nz/blog/12-years-at-silverstripe-q-and-a-with-the-founders/#PageComment_37737 Congratulations! 12 years is a period, keep up! Thu, 19 Apr 2012 23:53:09 +1200 Angela http://www.silverstripe.co.nz/blog/12-years-at-silverstripe-q-and-a-with-the-founders/#PageComment_37737 http://www.silverstripe.co.nz/blog/12-years-at-silverstripe-q-and-a-with-the-founders/#PageComment_37735 Congrats on completing 12 years of business. Very Inspirational story. Your product is beautiful. All the best for the future. Fri, 30 Mar 2012 19:21:49 +1300 kevin http://www.silverstripe.co.nz/blog/12-years-at-silverstripe-q-and-a-with-the-founders/#PageComment_37735 http://www.silverstripe.co.nz/blog/12-years-at-silverstripe-q-and-a-with-the-founders/#PageComment_37733 Congrats on completing 12 years! Good luck for the future. Fri, 16 Mar 2012 00:52:36 +1300 Cheolsu http://www.silverstripe.co.nz/blog/12-years-at-silverstripe-q-and-a-with-the-founders/#PageComment_37733 http://www.silverstripe.co.nz/blog/12-years-at-silverstripe-q-and-a-with-the-founders/#PageComment_37731 Hello, This is, I think, about the twentieth CMS I heard about. It sounds a little better than the formers. I'd like trying it, may be, one day, if get time. Good luck and best regards. Sat, 10 Mar 2012 11:10:54 +1300 Christian MOYON http://www.silverstripe.co.nz/blog/12-years-at-silverstripe-q-and-a-with-the-founders/#PageComment_37731 http://www.silverstripe.co.nz/blog/part-1-q-and-a-with-ceo-sam-minnee-about-agile-at-silverstripe/#PageComment_37726 The link to the SCRUM youtube is broken! Tue, 14 Feb 2012 05:13:42 +1300 Michael Simpson http://www.silverstripe.co.nz/blog/part-1-q-and-a-with-ceo-sam-minnee-about-agile-at-silverstripe/#PageComment_37726 http://www.silverstripe.co.nz/blog/part-2-q-and-a-with-scrum-master-and-project-manager-aleksandra-brewer/#PageComment_37716 Hi PM Hut :-), Measuring success of projects is really difficult because there are so many ways of defining success. For me the best way to measure project success is to measure client happiness. Since we introduced Scrum clients are definitely a lot happier than they were before (We know because they told us :-). One thing that happened was that we now have much better quality in our work which means that there is no testing or bugfixing phase needed at the end. Also, each team now works on one project at the time. Both of the above make the turnaround time for each project a lot shorter. I wish we had actual numbers but it is hard to get measures from "before Scrum" as projects often used to linger on and on and it was sometimes difficult to establish an exact finish time. From what we have seen I wouldn't say that projects have got cheaper but they have definitely got a lot faster from beginning to end and clients are happier with the results. Hope that answers your question ... Cheers, Sandy Sun, 29 Jan 2012 16:19:34 +1300 Sandy Mamoli http://www.silverstripe.co.nz/blog/part-2-q-and-a-with-scrum-master-and-project-manager-aleksandra-brewer/#PageComment_37716 http://www.silverstripe.co.nz/blog/part-2-q-and-a-with-scrum-master-and-project-manager-aleksandra-brewer/#PageComment_37714 HI Sandy, Are projects now finished faster since the adoption of Scrum/Agile in your company? How about the success rate of the projects? Did it improve? Fri, 27 Jan 2012 05:53:30 +1300 PM Hut http://www.silverstripe.co.nz/blog/part-2-q-and-a-with-scrum-master-and-project-manager-aleksandra-brewer/#PageComment_37714 http://www.silverstripe.co.nz/blog/part-1-q-and-a-with-ceo-sam-minnee-about-agile-at-silverstripe/#PageComment_37713 Hi Jeremy, The client is part of an on-going conversation and there really shouldn't be any surprises. We interact formally through the Scrum meetings and informally through face-to-face meetings (and/or skype) several times a week and sometimes daily. In an Agile project the client is part of the process. Also, we make sure that we build small, incremental blocks of functionality that are fully developed, tested and bug-free so that if something does turn out to be more complex or the client loses funding we are left with working features. And because we always build the important stuff first in a worst case scenario we will be left with important and useful features rather than a bunch of gold-plated nice-to-haves. I see Scrum and Agile as having major benefits for clients and in my experience many clients ask for this way of working. Thu, 19 Jan 2012 14:15:49 +1300 Sandy Mamoli http://www.silverstripe.co.nz/blog/part-1-q-and-a-with-ceo-sam-minnee-about-agile-at-silverstripe/#PageComment_37713