Ok, here’s the last translation, it’s the brazilian-portuguese version of the Scrum Checklist:

Here’s another brazilian-portuguese translation of another excellent presentation by Henrik Kniberg entitled “Technical Debt - how not to ignore it”.

Some like to say that the best way to learn is to learn from your own mistakes. Maybe, but it might be of great help if you can learn from other people’s mistakes as well.

The great Henrik Kniberg from “Scrum from the Trenches” fame and other excellent agile-related articles, has presented “10 ways to screw up with Scrum and XP” and I’ve asked him if I could translate it to brazilian-portuguese, which he kindly accepted.

So here it is:

When asked about how to convince management about Scrum I basically go around about risk reduction and ROI, since these are the main things people at the higher management level care about.

The #1 reason for project failure according to the CHAOS research is lack of customer involvement. So why not use a process that eliminates that risk?

Using a incremental process significantly reduces the risk of wasting money on something that’s not going to be useful, because the customer helps steer the product development in the right direction through series of planned feedback cycles.

Also, with a incremental process you start delivering something in a much shorter time than when using a waterfall approach, which effectively increases the ROI (return on investment), since the customer starts benefiting from the product after one or two months, instead of waiting 6 to 12 months in a typical waterfall project.

You can also mention improved customer satisfaction, team self-improvement and self-management, which reduces the administrative overhead, improved employee satisfaction and a bunch of other more intangible advantages.