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February 8th, 2010 04:19 pm · by Katrin Dietze

Im März 3 CSM Termine - allen voran das deutsche CSM Training mit ScrumCooking in Wien am 15+16.3. Gefolgt von 2x Zürich: am 11+12.3. CSM in englischer Sprache Boris Gloger mit CST-Anwärter Ralph Jocham und am 29.+30.3. CSM in deutscher Sprache Boris Gloger mit CST-Anwärter Josef Scherer. Das der Auftakt unseres neuen Professional ScrumMaster® Programms in Wien: 4+5.3. TeamEntwicklungsTraining in Wien mit Dieter Rösner/co Boris Gloger. Was i...

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Trainings im März | CSM Wien, Zürich und Professional ScrumMaster in Wien

February 8th, 2010 04:19 pm · Scrum

jolegat-gloger-icon-scottIm März 3 CSM Termine - allen voran das
deutsche CSM Training mit ScrumCooking in Wien am 15+16.3.
Gefolgt von 2x Zürich: am 11+12.3. CSM in englischer Sprache Boris Gloger mit CST-Anwärter Ralph Jocham und am
29.+30.3. CSM in deutscher Sprache Boris Gloger mit CST-Anwärter Josef Scherer.

Das der Auftakt unseres neuen Professional ScrumMaster® Programms in Wien: 4+5.3. TeamEntwicklungsTraining in Wien mit Dieter Rösner/co Boris Gloger.

Was ist ein Professional ScrumMaster?
Das Professional Scrummaster Programm ist eine Serie von Advanced Trainings für alle, die bereits CSM sind und sich als ScrumMaster noch weiterbilden wollen. Es geht darum Ihr Wissen und Können vor allem in der täglichen Arbeit mit Scrum Teams zu erweitern; Ziel ist die bessere, effektivere Arbeit mit Teams, abwechslungreiche und hocheffiziente Moderation der timeboxed Meetings, Konfliktlösung und -vorbeugung, mehr Zusammenhalt im Team, weniger Scrumbut und mehr Freude gemeinsam. Das Professional ScrumMaster Programm besteht aus

0) CSM
1) Moderationstraining für ScrumMaster
2) Teamentwicklungsworkshop für ScrumMaster
3) Change Management für ScrumMaster

Wer alle 3 Advanced Trainings positiv absolviert hat, darf sich Professional ScrumMaster ® nennen.
Infos auf der Homepage sind zwar noch etwas dürftig - aber Termine gibts schon. Das Programm gibts 1x komplett in München und in Wien. Die Reihenfolge von 1-3 ist egal. Trainings können auch einzeln gebucht werden. Pro 2-Tages-Training ab 890€ exkl. Seien Sie unter den Ersten!

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Presenting | Fearless Talks

February 8th, 2010 07:42 am · English, Good to know, Presentation, Scrum Training, Vienna

15 in before my talk in Dornbirn I was in panic! A super cool room, more than 100 people, the best media technology support I ever had and I had not prepared a presentation on slides. My idea was to do a dialogue with the people, but the room…

In “Confessions of a Public Speaker” [1] it says that “talking in front of a crowed” is the number one fear that people have. And it is true. Talking in front of an unknown group is stress. My face was pale, my hands sweating.

How can you overcome this? I loved an idea of Berkum: You cannot. Your body will always react this way. No escape. And then I remembered that my voice trainer said something different: “Be with the people, make sure, you are in a conversation with them.” That is the trick! Make them part of the dialogue. Create friends and tell stories.

It helped me also last week in Dornbirn. After 3 minutes involving them into a dialogue by making them part of the talk, my anxiety changed into energy.

[1] Berkun, S. 2009 Confessions of a Public Speaker. O’Reilly Media.

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Mr. M on bor!sgloger | Managers job!

February 5th, 2010 06:52 pm · Backstage, Insights, Scrumlies Stories

jolegat-gloger-icon-mrmIn my last post I talked about the “How to structure  a company?” and I just raised some questions. No answers where given. David Koonz mentioned in his comments companies like Gore, and Semco. And I agree, these companies seem to have solved the questions about how to structure a company.

The research Boris did about these companies tells, that companies should not be larger than 100 people and that everybody in the company should have a sense of entrepreneurship. Tom Peters calls this businessing [1].

I, Mr. M. agree completely, but how to do it? Lets take Boris company as an example. He has a big issue to solve. He is the Nr. 1 Certified ScrumMaster Trainer in Europe. Well known, with the best customer base you can think of. He trained 3000 people and dozens of companies. A lot of people know him and a big amount of  people  wants to get trained by him.

A super cool situation if you want to be successful … wait! What, if he is ill? What if he wants to go on vacation? Shall then customers needs to wait? How can we make sure that a running implementation headed by Boris can be kept running if he is ill? The only possibility to solve this is to replace Boris with a service his company offers, right? A reliable, repeatable way of supporting customers that can help his customers using his expertise even if he is not able to do this by himself.

So, he started this process. He trained and educated, coached and supported people to help him doing  this job. He created the bor!sgloger team during the last 6 months. First very few people and now this groups starts to be too large. He can not focus on this group anymore alone. Several freelance people and some employees are now working for him. What do we introduce now? We need a manager and leader for these people, right?

Wait … they do his job! Was this easy for him? That is the next challenge you need to phase. If your company grows, the founders needs to start learning a new job. Managing a company and not doing the job of the company.

[1] Peters, T. J. 1994 The Tom Peters seminar: crazy times call for crazy organizations. Vintage Books.

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5 min on Scrum | Retrospectives| 10 Ideas

February 4th, 2010 02:36 pm · English, Scrum, ScrumMaster

jolegat-gloger-icon-scottPeter Stevens wrote a nice blog entry about Retrospectives [1] that is worth reading. I wanted to use seed to give you 10 ideas to improve your retrospective.

  1. Change the standard format from time to time. Introduce new questions, or different colors.
  2. Run the retrospective in a park or a garden, not in the office.
  3. Read a book about NLP [2] and use the representation systems described in this book.
  4. Learn to ask questions!
  5. Ask at the end of the retrospective, how we can improve the retrospective next time.
  6. Bring in artefacts from the Sprint. Artefact Contest [3]
  7. Send an invitation to your team so they can bring DATA to the Retrospective.
  8. Run a story workshop as a Retrospective … Use the 90 min to write a short story, a movie or a play about the last Sprint.
  9. Use a future generation workshop … Start the retrospective in the future of 2011. What did you do to be better in 2011?
  10. Go to a class that teaches you how to run meetings productively. Use what you learn.

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Seth Godin | The Tribes We Lead

February 3rd, 2010 02:22 pm · Scrum

Using Scrum means you commit to constant change and improvement. As mentioned in earlier articles, a ScrumMaster usually is not in any kind of authoritative position to lead his team. He is leading because he is focused on the best interest of the team, the company, the product owner, the customer … usually everybody involved. And he is constantly questioning everything in place to be able to improve.

That’s what Seth Godin elaborated in his speech about true leaders:

  1. They challenge the status quo: Challenge everything. They challenge what is currently there.
  2. They build a culture: “A secret language, a 7-second handshake, a way of knowing whether you are in or you are out.
  3. They have curiosity: “about the people in the tribe, and about outsiders.”
  4. They connect people to one-another. They allow people to achieve what they want more than anything….to be missed!”
  5. ll tribal leaders have charisma. BUT, you do not need charisma to be a tribal leader. Leading a tribe gives you charisma. If you look and study the leaders throughout history, you will see where the charisma comes from. It comes from the leading.
  6. They Commit: They commit to the cause, they commit to the tribe, they commit to the people.

Whatever your role is in a Scrum team … be aware of the fact that you are a leader!

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Take A Look At Your ScrumBut

February 2nd, 2010 08:59 am · Scrum

Again and again I see the expression “ScrumBut” [1] used as a running gag among the Scrum community. ScrumBut means the excuse Scrum teams use why they don’t fully comply to the Scrum specifications. “We are doing Scrum but …”. The cause of this phenomenon seems to be the “We suck less” mentality in some companies. [2]

Generally there’s nothing wrong with adapting the Scrum method according to your companies needs and structures, as long productivity and profitability are the main focus. Bending Scrum rules for the sake of keeping obsolete structures in place doesn’t seem to be such a good idea. Especially because Scrum is predestined to identitfy bottlenecks and the cause for suboptimal productivity.

So, to transform a running gag into a valuable tool, ask yourself in what respect, if any, your Scrum team or your company deviates from the recommended Scrum method.

Are there real causes for this deviation? Or is it just because “that’s the way it is”? Do you have to consider facts that are more important than productivity?

Which causes for deviations are ok for you and which are not?

[1] http://blogs.msdn.com/ericgu/archive/2006/10/13/scrumbut.aspx

[2] http://www.stickyminds.com/sitewide.asp?Function=edetail&ObjectType=COL&ObjectId=15032

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Scrumlies | Product Owner

February 1st, 2010 09:02 am · Scrum

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Penelope, after the meeting with her customer [see last story], talks to her actors team. The Customer needs something else, with a high business demand. So she wants to change the Product Backlog and has a different opinion than the team about what is important. A conflict arises. Business Value or professional ethos.

I like the way the team solved the issue.

More from Penelope and her team in 2 Weeks.

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Some Thoughts About Group Behaviour

January 31st, 2010 05:37 pm · Scrum


Pixars funny short film about a group of birds and how they react to a strange intruder reminded me of some teams and their behaviour I have seen in the past.

Seeing things the same way, having common values, the same enemies and reacting automatically and synchronously may be very powerful, but can also create problems that are sometimes only perceived in retrospect, when it’s too late.

Some thoughts about your  Scrum team, your company and your circle of friends:

  • Do you prefer homogenous groups because they feel familiar?
  • How do you react to outsiders? Are they “impediments” that should be removed?
  • Do you appreciate “strange birds” and their new views, strengths and possibilities?
  • Can you play a part in contributing to integrate the stranger?
  • Are you strong enough to perceive inconvenient truths, the outsider could make visible?
  • How would you compose a perfect team if it were only up to you to decide?

EDIT: In case this video can’t be viewed from your country, follow this link [1] … there must be a suitable one for your location.Thanks for the hint Christian!

[1] Youtube.com Title “For the Birds”

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News | Scrum Helpful in Everyday Life - Scrum auch im Alltag hilfreich

January 30th, 2010 08:03 pm · Scrum

In the past Scrum has mainly been used for professional purposes, and there especially within the IT sector.

Using Scrum Cooking to show the practical applications, I’ve been showing for some time now how Scrum knowledge can also be helpful in private life.

Shortly the following message reached me:

“Your training is not only helpful for my job, it’s also useful for my everyday life. Thanks  again!”

- Dorin Lupu, Technical Lead, O2

I am glad about that, because Scrum can be much more than just a method for software development, but if used in the proper way, it can also be a way of life.

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Bisher ist Scrum fast ausschließlich im beruflichen Umfeld, bzw. auch dort eher in der IT-Branche eingesetzt worden.

Durch den praktischen Einsatz von Scrum Cooking versuche seit einiger Zeit zu verdeutlichen, dass das Wissen um Scrum auch im Privatleben hilfreich sein kann.

Nun hat mich kürzlich folgende Nachricht erreicht:

Dein Training kommt mir nicht nur im Job sondern auch im Alltag zu Gute! Nochmals Danke!

- Dorin Lupu, Technical Lead, O2

Das freut mich sehr, da Scrum viel mehr sein kann als nur eine Methode zur Softwareentwicklung, sonder richtig angewandt sogar eine Lebenseinstellung.

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Mr. M on bor!sgloger - the company

January 29th, 2010 08:54 am · Manager, Scrum

jolegat-gloger-icon-mrmA company needs structure and processes if it wants to become an environment in which people want to work productively. When a company grows from 2 people to maybe 7, you have to start thinking about management structures, processes and first rules that everybody needs to apply.

When a company grows beyond 7, these problems starts to become more and more complex. You need more structures and more rules. BUT! How can you manage the growth of a company without using old traditional models?

Ed Cutmull [1] wrote, that it is the job of a manager to make sure that the organization will survive in case of failures. So, there is the notion of stability in being a manager.

E.g. a friend of mine, Boris, has a small company and he started last year in autumn with these kind of questions:

What is the best structure for his small company? What is his position and his role within his company? Given the fact that he is doing the work as a job, and running a company as a manager. I am 100% sure we will see a lot of change in his small company over the next months. [tbc]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Catmull

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Event | “Scrum in der Praxis. Was passiert wirklich beim Einführen von Scrum?!”

January 28th, 2010 11:18 am · Deutsch, Events, Scrum

Womit muss man rechnen, wenn man sich damit auseinandersetzt, Scrum in einem Unternehmen, einer Abteilung oder als als Guerillia einzuführen?

Den meisten, die sich mit der Methode und Theorie von Scrum beschäftigt haben, wird bewusst sein, dass sich möglicherweise einiges an der Produktiviät, den Rollen der Mitarbeiter, der Motivation und vielleicht sogar an der Firmenstruktur verändern kann.

Was MUSS bewusst verändert werden bzw. was WIRD sich automatisch verändern?

Was genau zeigt die Praxis, geht in einem Unternehmen vor, wenn Scrum eingeführt wird?

Zu diesem Thema wurde ich eingeladen am 4. Februar 2010 einen Vortrag an der FH Vorarlberg zu halten.  Alle Details zur Örtlichkeit und zur Anmeldung gibt es hier. [1]

Über rege Anmeldungen freue ich mich natürlich!

[1] http://www.jahooda.org/?p=2387

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News | Certified ScrumMaster 2010 in Vienna

January 28th, 2010 08:45 am · English, Events, Scrum, Scrum Training, Vienna

Vienna has 22 new ScrumMasters! dsc02853The training was conducted in the Hotel Triest [1], a wonderful venue. Robin Williams and Anastasia have also stayed in this cool Hotel. (Unfortunately not at the same time we were there.)

I want to use this opportunity to thank all attendees for the wonderful time we had together.

See you at the next Scrum Cooking in March!

[1] http://www.dastriest.at/

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Wut! Never again a car from Sixt

January 28th, 2010 12:04 am · Scrum

Today I ordered a car from Sixt. I was not able to do it online, as the website did not allow me to order a car for the same day. So I gave them a call. The nice voice on the phone told me to wait, put me on loop aksed me to punch keys and then I got a woman on the phone. She was very kind, but told me, she had no car in my category with GPS.

So I said, well, then I take the next level. Oh no she said, no BIG car is available. The only thing she can offer would be a C-class Mercedes with GPS. I said, ok - I take it!

[Isn´t it strange ... you are a Premium Card holder and they do not want to sell you a large car, even if they would have to send you to the next rental office or drive a car to the office you want the car in?]

At 18:30 I went to Sixt in Frankfurt got my car, all was fine, and then the CD of the Navigation System was not in the car. So I got out of the car again. (Glad I checked before I started to drive)

The women said. Oh yes, the GPS is broken. I said, well then I want another car, as I ordered one with GPS. She said, no you did not! I said, of course. That is the reason, why I ordered a bigger car than I wanted. She said, no you did not book a GPS on top.

I told her firm but friendly I did, and I wanted to have a car with GPS, she said again no, I would be wrong and so I told her that I do not want to have a broken car, and her boss started to say the car would not have a defect. I said, this is exactly what she said and I told him that it is not ok to lend a car that has a defect, without telling me that. He said the car did not have a defect, it would be fully safe to drive.

I said … the navigation system does not work and in my eyes this is a defect.  He only answered that it would be a non issues, as I did  order a C-Class mercedes without GPS, based on their records. I told him that it was not my fault if her college from the call center had not put this into the order, as she had clearly understood, that I wanted a car with GPS. He told me this was not his problem and she is somewhere in x, and he does not know where she is.

I told him him if this is the only thing he can offer me, no refund although I am a Sixt Premium  Card holder and a LH Senator. He said, only if he would have a car available I do have a benefit.

I was telling him, that this was the last time I book a Sixt car and I had to leave driving this car, that I did not want as I needed to be on time for my meeting.

His response was, that this were of course an option I could take.

I learned from this little story that the rental car companies in Germany do not need to satisfy us customers. In my eyes they are obviously still making too much money, if they can afford to send customers away who spent a lot of money using their service in the past.

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5 min on Scrum | Product Owner

January 27th, 2010 08:44 am · English, Product Owner, Roles, Scrumlies Stories

jolegat-gloger-icon-penelopeThe Product Owner as a role has 5 responsibilities:

1. Create a Vision and share it with the team.
2. Manage the Return-On-Investment ROI.
3. Prioritize the Product Backlog based on ROI
4. Define the Acceptance Criteria and accept the Product Increment.
5. Establish and maintain the Release Plan.

The Storywriter – She drives the Product Owner from the business point of view. She communicates a clear vision of the product and she defines its main characteristics. She also accepts the product at the end of a Sprint. She makes sure that the team works only on the most valuable Backlog Items. She has the same goal as the team. She is responsible for the return on investment.

All of this is discussed here in the blog over and over again, and I do not want to repeat myself here, but who is the Product Owner as a person? Lets create a face to our Role. I want to introduce you to Penelope. You will remember her from the christmas story I wrote last year.

Penelope is a money driven person. She is interested in doing business and she is a visionary person. She has tons of ideas every given moment. She studied at Harvard and she learned early in her business life, that she needs to work harder than most men to get the rewards she deserves.

She knows her product and she can talk about it at any given moment. She loves it. She is self motivated and she loves to have debates with her customers about what works and what doesn’t.  She does not think like a manager but rather like an entrepreneur. And she is interested in every detail.

She motivates all people because she is a wonderful storyteller.

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10 Tips to Improve Your Daily Scrum

January 25th, 2010 03:15 pm · English, Organizational Scrum, Scrum, Scrum Meetings, ScrumMaster

jolegat-gloger-icon-scottAfter the first Daily Scrum - the first try-out - went well, now it’s time we can shape the whole process a little bit. Here are 10 tips to improve you Daily Scrum.

1. ScrumMaster, please do not stand next to the Scrumboard (Taskboard). The team members shall work WITH the Scrumboard. It is their tool.

2. List of Impediments. Whenever your team is not sure about something, needs information, waits for something — this is an impediment. Please follow the 24 hour rule: Every Impediment needs to be resolved by the ScrumMaster within 24 hours. If you can’t handle it within 24 hours, you will report it in the PODS. So the company can help you with this impediment.

3. Always start on time. Make absolutely clear to everybody (in the whole organisation), when your Daily Scrum takes place. Display the information outside the room, so everybody knows! Create a LARGE calendar in the hallway, SHOWING ALL MEETINGS, so EVERBODY can see them immediately.

4. Hang up a team calendar and hang up a sheet that explains the 4 questions of the Daily Scrum. So you do not need to ask the team during Daily Scrum.

5. Facilitate as much as necessary, usually it will be less then you think you should. Do NOT manage. Do NOT tell them what to do.

6. Do not allow people, POs, Managers, etc. to interrupt the Daily Scrum. Only Team Members are allowed to speak.

7. Explain to the Team what IMPEDIMENTS you have resolved!

8. Buy some cookies, chocolate or something else for the Daily Scrum.

9. A team member who is not able to attend has to be replaced by a team member who is present. This replacing team member needs to inform the team about the progress of the absent team member.

10. Be strict with your time boxing. Only 15 min.

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Moderationstraining für ScrumMaster in München 1+2.2.

January 21st, 2010 12:04 am · Book a training, Deutsch, Events, Germany

img_2357Fortbildung für ScrumMaster jetzt auch in München.
Als Auftakt zum Professional ScrumMaster Programm (ganz neu! davon in den nächsten Tagen mehr) findet am 1+2. Februar in München ein Moderationstraining für ScrumMaster statt.

Trainer ist Dieter Rösner - bei ihm hat Boris Gloger selbst (und inzwischen das ganze
bor!sgloger Team) seine Moderationsausbildung gehabt. Gedacht ist das Training für CSM’s, die weiter an der Verbesserung ihrer Effektivität und Freude mit ihrem Team arbeiten wollen. Moderation in diesem Sinne, macht vor allem timeboxed Meetings im Teams einfacher, abwechslungsreicher und den Scrummaster sicherer im Auftritt in schwierigen Teamsituationen. Einfach wärmstens zu empfehlen!
Professional ScrumMaster I/III Moderationstraining kostet für 2 Tage €990 exkl. pP.
Hier noch ein Infoblatt zum Training: 100110_info_modt_muc_12feb_de
Anmeldung online hier: ModT 1+2.2.201o München

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Penelope on the Customer in Scrum

January 20th, 2010 09:42 am · Customer, English, Product Owner, Scrum, checked

jolegat-gloger-icon-penelopeA couple of years ago, when Ken wrote his first book and gave his first trainings, everything in Scrum was created from the viewpoint of the teams. The first very interesting idea was, that the team should only deal with one person who knows what they shall work on - the Product Owner. He was the single wring-able neck. That made sense and made some teams more successful. But this leads immediately to the questions from whom the Product Owner gets the information about what is more important to build.

The answer is easy: From the market. Makes sense, if the market pays more for functionality x than for y, we will build x before y.

Wait - what is the market? The market consists of Customers, who buy our product, right? If I deal with my dev-team, I usually know, why our customer wants to have a certain functionality and I can tell them how much money a customer is going to pay for a it. Often this is enough to make my team super-engaged with this specific story. When Boris held the training for us, he introduced the role of the Customer. For me this absolutely made sense. Now I know whom I have to deal with. I am still the single wring-able neck from the team perspective, but I do not have to use a set of tools to clarify the prioritization within my Product Backlog.

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Scrumlies | The Customer

January 19th, 2010 07:00 am · Agile Planning, Customer, English, Product Owner, Roles, Scrum Meetings, Scrumlies Stories, checked

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Penelope is working through the product backlog with Caroline, her customer. And she is getting more information from Caroline about the importance of a feature. Caroline is very very clear about what she wants. We should always have customers who know exactly what they want.

Penelope and Caroline have a meeting that is not defined in Scrum, a meeting in that Penelope finds out, what needs to be built. Maybe it is a sales meeting, or a requirements engineering workshop, a brainstorming session or just a chat over a coffee that generates ideas.

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Scrum User Group Frankfurt am Main

January 18th, 2010 06:49 pm · Scrum

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informelles Treffen der Scrum-Anwender, Scrum-Begeisterten und denen, die es werden wollen im Rhein-Main-Gebiet. Als Einstieg wird jeweils ein Thema diskutiert und dann kann es in weiteres Kennenlernen, Erfahrungsaustausch, Diskussion und Stammtischrunde weitergehen.

Treffen jeden dritten Donnerstag im Monat um 19:00h, an wechselnden Orten innerhalb des Rhein-Main Gebiets (Darmstadt, Mainz, Frankfurt ff.; Details siehe jeweils die Einladung in XING und b.a.w. auch hier).

nächstes Treffen:

Do, 21. Jan. 2010, 19:00h

im

KUBU,

Frankfurt am Main, Opernplatz 2

Starter:

CSM & PMP - agile & classic?

weitere Infos und möglichst Rückmeldung via XING:

https://www.xing.com/events/scrum-user-group-rhein-main-csm-pmp-agile-classic-452741

oder direkt an:

mailto:stefan.gfroerer@prodyna.de

Grüße aus Frankfurt

Stefan G. Gfrörer

(der, der sich das Backlog-Item “Einladung” aus dem Sprint-Backlog genommen hat)

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CSM Training | 1. Training 2010 in Wien

January 15th, 2010 01:00 pm · Book a training, Deutsch, Scrum, Vienna

dscn1350 Dieses Jahr geht gut los!
Das erste Certified ScrumMaster Training 2010 von Boris Gloger steht vor der Tür!

25+26.1. in Wien im Hotel Triest natürlich MIT dem heiss geliebten ScrumCooking diesmal wieder in Hollmanns Theater Salon im 1. Bezirk.
Lernen Sie mit Boris Gloger nicht nur alles wichtige über Scrum sondern profitieren Sie von seiner jahrelangen Erfahrung mit vielen Kunden in Scrum Implementierungen. Weil es eben nicht nur darum geht, theoretisch Alles zu wissen sondern Scrum auch in die tägliche Arbeit übernehmen zu können, gibt es integriert ins Training das ScrumCooking. Für Gäste kochend können alle Teilnehmer selbst die Werte von Scrum ausprobieren, umsetzen, erfahren und das schmeckt auch noch!

Es gibt noch einige Plätze - also das neue Jahr mit etwas Neuem beginnen - jetzt buchen.

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Agile Projekte simulieren

January 13th, 2010 08:00 am · Scrum

Lässt sich die Komplexität von agilen Projekten modellieren, simulieren oder analysieren? Wenn ja, was sind die Voraussetzungen? Zu diesem Thema ist in der Yahoogroup “deutschescrum” ein sehr interessanter Artikel aufgetaucht.

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/deutschescrum/message/889

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New Year Message by Scrum Alliance

January 12th, 2010 02:26 pm · Scrum

ScrumAlliance released a new year message [1] and informed the community about some changes within the organisation and about their plans for 2010.

You may read the complete article, following the link at the bottom, but to make it easier for you, here is a short summary of the news:

  • New board member: Michele Sliger
  • New team member: Tobias Mayer (CST)
  • Still looking for a permanent Managing Director
  • Deep dive workshops at Orlando Scrum Gathering
  • New SA scholarship program
  • Mentoring program for CST applicants

[1] http://www.scrumalliance.org/news_items/82

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ScrumMaster mit Brief und Siegel!

January 12th, 2010 08:35 am · Before a training, Book a training, Deutsch, Events, Germany, Good to know, Scrum, Scrum Training, ScrumMaster, Vienna

Scrum wird bekannter, beliebter und daher immer mehr in den Unternehmen eingesetzt. Aus diesem Grund reicht es heute nicht mehr, nur angelesenes Scrum-Wissen zu besitzen.

Man muss sein Know-How auch mit Brief und Siegel als CSM (Certified ScrumMaster) belegen können. Noch ein wichtiges Ziel ist es, einen Trainer mit so viel praktischem Wissen wie möglich zu finden, um danach auch tatsächlich in der Lage zu sein, all die Ideen im Unternehmen auch wirklich umzusetzen.

Kennen Sie jemanden, der sich mit Scrum beschäftigt, dem aber noch ein professionelles Training und die dazugehörige Zertifizierung fehlen?

Dann tun Sie ihm einen Gefallen, geben Sie ihm einen Schubs in die richtige Richtung und lassen Sie ihn wissen, wann die nächsten Trainings stattfinden:

  • 25. - 26. 01. 2010 ………. CSM-Training in Wien (inkl. Scrum Cooking)
  • 01. - 02. 02. 2010 ………. Moderations-Training in München
  • 08. - 09. 02. 2010 ………. CSM-Training in München (inkl. Scrum Cooking)

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After the show is before the show - Scrumlies in Brazil

January 11th, 2010 07:57 am · English, Events, Fun, Scrum, Scrumlies Stories

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Our Scrum-Team in Brazil

Scott, Penelope and all other crew members had a hard time before Christmas. (I hope you remember the movie they did for Christmas?)

Fun and celebration of a success is also necessary to be hyper-productive.

You see them here on their last vacation day on the beach of Maracaipe, Brazil.

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Break the Rules or Create Revolutionary Visions – Lessons from 18th Century Visionaries

January 8th, 2010 11:53 pm · Scrum

A ScrumMaster is a real leader. But what really defines a leader? Is it enough to have a vision or to be in a position of authority?

Let’s have a look at some of the - more or less known - great leaders and visionaries of the 18th century and let’s see what a modern day ScrumMaster can learn from them.

Maria Theresia: The Austria Empress was the first to create a decoration for officers who did more than their duty demanded from them. They were decorated for great accomplishments in battle, even when they refused to obey an order to achieve a significant advantage. Never before has a leader encouraged his soldier’s disobedience.

Sir Isaac Newton: The British genius always questioned every principle he came in contact with. Therefore he was able to find solutions for problems, nobody had thought before. Discovering the concept of gravity is his best known accomplishment. But this was only possible because he constantly questioned existing theories.

Thomas Jefferson: One of the most influential Founding Fathers, he envisioned America as a driving force behind the “Empire of Liberty”. He did not only see his responsibility towards his country. He was aware of his countries responsibility towards mankind. For this vision to become reality, the rules had to change radically.

Mary Wollstonecraft: As one of the first feminist authors, she had a major influence in how women’s roles have changed until now. Her “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman” is one of the earliest works of feminist philosophy. In it, Wollstonecraft argues that women ought to have an education commensurate with their position in society and then proceeds to redefine that position, claiming that women are essential to the nation because they educate its children and because they could be “companions” to their husbands rather than mere wives. This created a compelling vision that broke all existing rules about relationships.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: This music genius was a composer who did not bow to the taste of his emperor. He rather followed his own unique understanding of music and changed for whom he was composing. As he knew that the people liked his music, he did not compose to please one man, like everybody else did. So he radically changed the world of music once and for all.

Jules Verne: This author was the first who not only dreamt about fantastic journeys, but dared to write books about them. This way he became the founder of the science fiction genre. Ideas that became reality long time ago were first described in his books, like that man can fly to the moon or crossing the sea in submarines. Dare to think about the impossible, things that nobody has ever done before.


Every one of the examples above proved to be fearless, expanding known boundaries and sometimes doing this by risking their own necks.

When to break the rules

Just being rebellious and always opposing every rule doesn’t make anyone a leader. But seeing the greater good, increasing productivity, keeping a customer whom you would otherwise lose … and to make this happen by breaking given rules for the greater good of everybody in your team – that makes you a true leader.

So sometimes a leader has to break rules if necessary and he also has to create new and motivating visions.

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