SCRUM NOIR: Mad Dog Mary episode 1

by Lancer Kind, Dhaval Panchal

Learn about Scrum and have fun doing it! Real world problems and real world solutions.In this first episode, when Ace's new client walks into his office and says “her back is against the wall” and that she wants to “hit them back”, Ace gets excited because there is nothing like commitment to change from someone who's fighting for their life. That, and she's really upset and he's afraid to say, "No." He takes the job and meets the product owner, Mary. After he understands why she's nicknamed, 'Mad Dog', he starts to consider that maybe working in his last client's siloed organization wasn't so bad.SCRUM NOIR is a comic book series written by Agile coaches and authors Lancer Kind and Dhaval Panchal. Each episode presents situations that happen with real-world teams and real-world solutions for solving them.Produced by SolutionsIQ.

14 pages, Kindle Edition

First published July 9, 2014

About the author

Although Lancer Kind lives in the Seattle area, he spends much of his time traveling to India, China, and Thailand. He's a 2003 graduate of the Clarion writer's workshop and a 2006 graduate of the Odyssey writer's workshop. As an active member of the science fiction community, he's spoken at NorwesCon, CascadiaCon, Foolscap, ReaderCon, and WorldCon (Denvention). When not writing, he's skateboarding, plotting how to make the world a better place, and studying Mandarin.