ScrumDesk is high visual tool created by Torin, a company from Slovak Republic, to help us manage projects with Scrum. Torin brougth to us a very distinct tool, with different ways to organize the features and as said earlier with a special care to visual solutions.
Getting Started
ScrumDesk organizes the features on a bar at the [...]

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I found an interesting information about Unit testing on MethodsandTools.com
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Unit Testing: Still Widely Informal
This poll examined how organizations perform unit testing. Is it an informal activity that is done before integration if there is some time left after programming [...]

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Have a look – takes only 3 min of your time!

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This is a very interesting 4th question. From Henrik Daae. 
I like the idea for one reason: It keeps the urgency level of the team living. It might keep us focused on the goal.

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Auf dem Scrum Gathering in Stockholm hatte Heiko Buttons mit der Aufschrift “Ich bin ein Impediment” verteilt. Die Teile waren von Anfang an ein Renner und daher hat Heiko sie jetzt in diesem Webshop zum Verkauf angeboten: Ich bin ein Impediment.

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Talking about the 4. question is my way to help teams to understand that we work as a team. I still see everyday team who perform Daily Scrums like giving status meeting to ScrumMasters.
A Daily Scrum is a planning meeting on tactical level. The team plans their day of work. The purpose of this meeting [...]

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The Daily Scrum is essential for Teams to perform a good Scrum. But unfortunately it is most of the time performed poorly. We, Certified Scrum Trainers have tried to give you an idea how not to run a daily Scrum two years ago:

The Daily Scrum has evolved to a meeting in which we, the development [...]

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During this year we did a couple of Scrum implementations and although we had been very successful I believe the organizations could have done better. In our work with teams we always see again and again that not everybody really feels the need to change. Not everybody want to go for Scrum. Why? Is Scrum [...]

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Principle 3: Use “pull” system to avoid overproduction.

In Scrum, the product owner is responsible for scheduling work deliverables according to business demands. The team works on these deliverables just-in-time, so there is no wasted work.
The pull system is maybe the most important mindset change you need to make if you want to apply the Toyota [...]

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Training of the week: We certified 35 new ScrumMasters in Elewijt, Belgium last week. It was a wonderful experience for me to see how many people do already Scrum in Belgium. There is now a growing Scrum community. Maybe we should start an official Scrum User Group in Belgium?
Book of the week: Leading Change by [...]

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(…) Everything I have seen in my work over the years, suggest that the number-one problem they (companies that what to change, boris gloger) is all about creating a sense of urgency—and that’s the first step in a series of actions needed to succeed in a changing world. — John Kotter,A Sense of Urgency, p.13
Kotter [...]

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Wikipedia works because so many contributors figured out how to self-organize into a group that produced something far more useful than a traditionally organized document
I think we’re at the earliest possible beginning of the changes we’re going to see because of this sort of grass roots coordination. (Seth Godin)
I like this post because it shows [...]

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11 years ago a bestseller: Leading Change. In this book Kotter described an eight step process to create sustainable change (see 8 Steps for Sustainable Change). This year Kotter published a book, A Sense of Urgency, that deals with the first step: Establishing a Sense of Urgency:
He believes that after years of studying companies that performed [...]

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Jeff Sutherland has done a presentation at the Agile 2008 that you can see at InfoQ.
In this presentation filmed during Agile 2008, Jeff Sutherland, co-creator of Scrum, and Guido Schoonheim, CTO of Xebia, present an actual case of reaching hyper-productivity with a large distributed team using XP and Scrum. Watch the presentation on InfoQ

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John P. Kotter wrote 11 years ago a bestseller: Leading Change. In this book Kotter described an eight step process to create sustainable change. 

Establishing a Sense of Urgency
Creating the Guiding Coalition
Developing a Vision and Strategy
Communicating The Change Vision
Empowering Broad-Based Action
Generating Short-Term Wins
Consolidating Gains and Producing More Change
Anchoring New Approaches in the Culture

I read this book [...]

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Brazil Scrum Gathering 2009
Escrito por lucianofelix em 31 Outubro, 2008

No mês de maio de 2009 o Brasil vai receber uma edição do Scrum Gathering. O Scrum Gathering é o principal evento de Scrum no mundo sendo organizado pela própria Scrum Alliance, provavelmente Ken Schwaber, Jeff Sutherland, Mike Cohn e outros grandes nomes da comunidade mundial estarão [...]

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The good thing about Scrum in 2008 is that we do not need to proof anymore that Scrum works. There are thousands  of people using Scrum and hundreds of companies using Scrum. 
Mark Levision has done a create job by pulling Scrum Case Studies together. 

It is striking that the people ask for case studies about agile – but [...]

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Most people who know me understand that I do hate tools. No! I do not hate tools. I still hope we will get tools that helps us to collaborate really.
I do not understand why a lot of tools are not done by people who really understand Scrum. Ken Schwaber mentioned 5 years ago already that [...]

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Scrumy Pro has launch a new version with some good improvements, the tool continues very intuitive and easy to use and this new features can help Scrumy to be used by a wider market.
Backlog
The first major improvement was the creation of a backlog and it’s accessible through the dashboard tab. Now it’s possible to create [...]

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I did my first talk via a webinar this week. I was a very interesting experience. You talk and you do not get any feedback. I found it very hard. 
I talked in the Scrum Alliance Webinar Series. I am was very honored to speak in this series as already Hubert Smith, Stacia Broderick, Johanna Rothmann, [...]

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When I run a Certified Scrum Product Owner class, I talk about the necessity to prioritize the Product Backlog. Mike Cohn found the idea in the work of Karl Wiegers first:
Customers are never thrilled to find out they can’t get all the features they want in release 1.0 of a new software product (at least, [...]

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Last week I was in South Africa and worked with Peter Hundermark, ScrumSense to train 50 people in Johannesburg and Cape Town. see more.

The Certified Scrum Master course in itself was extremely interesting and I’d recommend it to anyone who can get to it. It was also extremely difficult to find in South Africa but [...]

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Wir haben diese Woche 28 neue ScrumMaster zertifiziert. Es war wie immer ein anderes Training. Was mir besonders auffällt: Der Level steigt und steigt. Die Menschen, die zum Training kommen sind immer besser vorbereitet und haben mehr und mehr Erfahrung mit Scrum. Ich find es gut. 
Da wir das Training am St. Martinstag gemacht haben wurde [...]

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I was visiting the Scrumaufdeutsch Wiki that holds the material from the 3. Germany Speaking Scrum Gathering. I really think you should have a look at the presentation Simon Roberts and Christoph Matthis did.
They presented the process the used to implement Scrum. They stated that this was not the result of planning but it emerged. [...]

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