Scott, Penelope, Peter, Paul and Mary, Caroline, and Mr. M. created a wonderful Christmas play for you. We hope you enjoyed to read their story during the last 4 weeks. In case you have not seen them in our Advent calendar yet, take a look at it now. You will find the story of [...]

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Scrum und Festpreisprojekte ist immer wieder Thema bei Kunden, beim Consulting und beim Trainieren. Ich habe gestern diesen Artikel (dank der Community Twitter) “Bedingungen für die agile Software Entwicklung” [1] gefunden.
Aber diese Schlussfolgerungen sind leider nicht ausreichend. “[...] Agiler Projektverlauf zu einem Festpreis abgewickelt werden könnte. Da sich im agilen Ansatz jedoch beide Parteinen einem [...]

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Wir möchten uns bei allen Teilnehmern bedanken, die uns am 10. Dezember 2009 im Museums Quartier tapfer bei wenigen Plusgraden und Regen positive Scrum Stimmung bescherten.
Leider war uns das Wetter nicht gewogen und statt einer verschneiten, weihnachtlich verträumten wiener Innenstadt-Landschaft kam uns die Atmosphäre etwas britisch vor.

Die Gespräche waren wie erwartet sehr herzlich, informativ, produktiv und praxisorientiert. [...]

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This Monday and Tuesday we held a CSM Training in Munich where we had 28 participants. What became clear during this event was that more and more companies start using Scrum, because most of our attendees were already experienced in applying the Scrum method.
TNG [1] was again a great location and they demonstrated their high [...]

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Jürgen Margetich, den ihr alle vom Scrum Cooking kennt, ist mit für das gemütlichste Restaurant am Graben (genauer am Petersplatz 1) dem SNOOZE [1] verantwortlich.
Ich war a Samstag dort, habe 3 Stunden in Ruhe und super gemütlich gelesen und toll gegessen und … ach was, schaut es euch selbst an.
[1] http://www.snooze-vienna.at/

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Leider müssen wir das für heute Abend geplante Scrum Cooking Event in München verschieben, da unser allseits beliebter Host Jürgen Margetich, auch bekannt als „Scrum Master J.“ krank geworden ist.
Das ist keine Absage, denn alle angemeldeten Teilnehmer und Gäste sind selbstverständlich für das nächste Scrum Cooking am 9. Februar an der selben Location [...]

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March 8 – 10, 2010 we see you at the Scrum Gathering in Orlando [1]. Near the Disney Resort is a marvelous Hotel with a wonderful atmosphere. I enjoyed to see all my friends there in 2009.
Please make sure you do not forget to sent a presentation for Orlando. The deadline for the submission [...]

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Scott, Penelope and Mr. M. are waiting for your ideas. When you have read the story till now, you know that they try to get a new movie done. Today they did the casting and we are now waiting for the next day.
But this might become also your story, send me you ideas. What shall [...]

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As everybody knows, the ScrumMaster can not act in the Role of the Product Owner. 10 Reasons:

The ScrumMaster could not protect the development team.
The ScrumMaster could not protect the Product Owner against Management
The ScrumMaster should have a reasonable workload.
The ScrumMaster will not be able to tell himself that he does a lousy job as a [...]

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Yesterday Penelope produced the Product Vision for their Christmas movie. What will she do today. Open the next door of the Christmas calendar.

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People do only change their behavior if they do have a benefit. Marcos Pereira pointed me to a wonderful website. The Fun Theory [1]. On this side they show that you can change the behavior of people when the they get fun. Here is a great example:

Come up with some fun ideas to change the [...]

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Recently I received an email about an interesting event and thought maybe I should let you know:
TURKU AGILE DAY WED-THU March 17th – 18th 2010 @ ICT-BUILDING, TURKU
Department of Information Technology, IT student clubs Digit and Asteriski, and IT alumni organization 0-kerho from University of Turku proudly welcome You to Turku Agile Day ‘010 Conference, [...]

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The ScrumMaster is not part of the development team. He does not fulfill the role Team.

Whom shall he protect the dev team or the PO? Both. So, he needs to be independent.
He is more than a team member. He takes all responsibility.
People would start to see him as the technical leader.
He would influence the way [...]

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We are proud to present the ScrumMaster in his role of SCOTT, the ProductOwner in her role of PENELOPE, the ScrumTeam as PETER, PAUL and MARY, the beloved Manager as MAGNUS aka MR. M., the User in his role of UGO and last but not least the Customer in the role of CAROLINE.
The bor!sgloger team launched [...]

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Thank you very much! Thanks to everybody who sent me birthday wishes, to everybody who attended my birthday party and to the bor!sgloger team for organizing the whole party last Saturday. It started with a surprise HUMMER sightseeing tour with my own chauffeur. He picked me up at home, drove with me through Vienna and [...]

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From the Scrum Alliance: “Our exam delivery company will pull the exam down for approximately 2 hours Tuesday Morning 8-10 EST  12/1/2009 for scheduled maintenance. Any of your students that try to take the exam during that window will see a message that the exam is currently offline for maintenance.”

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