Eating an elephant using Scrum!

You cannot eat an elephant in one go! can you?  This means that you can only do away with a complex problem by solving it in smaller chunks.  This applies to software projects or any walk of life.  If you try to solve a problem as a whole, it takes longer and you might end up solving unwanted piece of the puzzle.  The whole idea is do what is needed NOW!

I have to narrow down to software projects.  Solving project issues in smaller units is what Agile principle talks about.  Scrum is one of the methodologies.  Typically the team size in a scrum team is 7 plus or minus 2.  So how can scrum be a solution to a larger project which needs multiple teams / workstreams.

In this case, scrum of scrums comes handy.  A representative from each team attends the daily scrum meeting and answers the 3 questions (what did my team do yesterday?, what is my team going to do today?, Are there any obstacles or dependencies?)

This way the individual representative from different teams can help the team that has impediments.  After all scrum is all about collaboration!
  

Car Themes

Two days back, I just visited Gmail and they have introduced themes.  The themes change themselves depending on the geography you are in and the time of the day. 

Themes and skins bring in a kind of harmony, they are spontaneously visible and they bring out the taste and mood of the person choosing it.  The software world has adopted it long time ago.

But how nice it will be to have themes in cars?  How about having a forest theme?  As soon as you fire the engine, you will see the dashboard having a background picture of a forest with the mellifluously flowing brook, when you apply the brake you hear elephants trumpeting, when you open the door you hear birds chirping and when you shift gears you hear frogs croaking and when you honk you hear lions roaring.

The dashboard, the steering, the music, the honking everything should look and sound in line with the theme. 

Then there should be themes that could be downloaded from the internet and uploaded into the theme gallery in the car with the help of the CD / DVD drive in the A/V playback systems in the car.  Or perhaps the mobile devices like the PDA, smart phones can be used to just apply themes in your car using bluetooth or any other similar technology.

I can see that day is not too far or perhaps somebody is already working on it!