Ingredients
1½ limes, chopped into cubes
3 tsp white granulated sugar
65ml/2½fl oz Cachaca
large handful ice cubes
Method
1. Place the lime cubes and sugar into a cocktail mixer and using a muddle (or the end of a wooden rolling pin), squeeze and mash the limes and sugar into a paste.
2. Add the Cachaca and some ice cubes, cover with [...]

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Henrik Daae, Program Manager at a multinational company (12.000+ employees), sent me this feedback – I am so happy about it, that I need to share it with you.

Allow me to share some feedback with you, a month after the CSM
training at Bang & Olufsen, Struer, Denmark.
Before the training, I felt pretty convinced that my [...]

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I am a strong proponent of the idea that we need to create work environments in which boys and girls work together. We need more women in software, in management in all types of work. Here is a very good video that gives a strong indicator that I am right. John Medina found very interesting [...]

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Andreas Schliep is Certified Scrum Trainer — I am very happy to announce that Andreas Schliep was approved as a Certfied Scrum Trainer by Scrum Alliance recently. Mentoring him for a bit more than a year he has proved several times that he is capable of doing the job and I happy to see [...]

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A piece of software will always reflect the social structure it was build in.
Any organization that designs a system will inevitably produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organization’s communication structure.” (see Conways Law)
This has basically two consequences for agile software development and software development in general: (1) Either we accept that [...]

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Hi want to share with you an evaluation sheet that I got about a Certfied ScrumMaster class. It is of course only one snap shot. It is not the best evaluation sheet I ever got, but it is ok.
What have been the significant events for you?
- A thorough training in what Scrum is and [...]

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How to run run Scrum with international teams on 4 destinations: PL, HUN, AUT, DE) — Vienna
Easy piece of cake! Really Scrum supports this way of working. You only need to understand that each team need to perform a daily Scrum and you have to splitt all teams. So instead of having four teams:

one in [...]

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Certified ScrumMaster class in Sao Paulo on Friday 30 of May 2008. It is a two day class. We will end on Saturday around 17:00. Details about the class schedule can be seen here:
https://borisgloger.backpackit.com/pub/1461966
We will run the class at:
Location: Radisson Hotel Faria Lima [googlemaps http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Radisson+Hotel+Faria+Lima,+sao+paulo&ie=UTF8&z=13&iwloc=A&cid=-23582357,-46685431,14052935274851445691&ll=-23.55848,-46.67696&output=embed&s=AARTsJqSX8fpGmKPh-oyeqD8P4CuPdBXrQ&w=425&h=350]
If you wish to register, please sent me an email.
It is [...]

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Recife, 22.05.08 — Virgina Satir was able to explain with her Satir Change Model how families go through a crisis. Boris mapped this training against this model and could by using this model describe, why his training creates excitement and enthusiasm.
In addition to that he showed how important the emotional aspects within a training [...]

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I certified today 30 people from Instituto Nokia de Technologia, Recife. As always in Brazil, the participants had been very engaged and they liked the new ideas.
About 50% of them did already Scrum but failed the NOKIA test. They phase the common problems: No well defined Product Backlog, wrong way to estimate, to many disturbances [...]

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Self-organization in Scrum-Teams is often confused with “We can do what we want!” Nothing is more far from the truth than this missunderstanding. Self-organization means that a complex system emerges a structure by self-referencing rules. So the system it selves produces a structure without having an influence from the outside. In her remarkable talk (below): [...]

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Recife, 23rd May — 200 people attended the very well organized event CMMi and Scrum. Teresa Maciel pulled a very nice, small but very enlightening confernce together. People from all over Brazil came to see Danielo from Globo.com; Felipe, Ana Sofia, Eric, Roberta, Izabella from C.E.S.A.R.; Renato from Sao Paulo.
These presenters showed how easy it [...]

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Recife, 22.05.08 —  Boris Gloger showed in a short informal “training” his secrets for running a Certified ScrumMaster training. Boris training is based on the metaphor of Cirque du Soleil. A training shall be an experience.
He showed the differences between

Talk -> Storytelling, Imagination
Training -> Experience and Enthusiasm
Consulting -> Exploration, guiding and being on the field

Boris [...]

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Recife, 22.05.08 —  Boris Gloger showed in a short informal “training” his secrets for running a Certified ScrumMaster training. Boris training is based on the metaphor of Cirque du Soleil. A training shall be an experience.
He showed the differences between

Talk -> Storytelling, Imagination
Training -> Experience and Enthusiasm
Consulting -> Exploration, guiding and being on the field

Boris [...]

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Agile Alliance proudly supports and sponsors gatherings and events relevant to agile teams around the world.
Consider attending these upcoming agile (or related) events. (If I’ve left any event out, please forgive me.)
Agile Coaches Camp: Pushing the Boundaries While Keeping Agile Simple
May 30-June 1, 2008 (Note the date change!)
http://agile2008.org/http://agilecoachcamp.org/
2. Catalyst Coding Contest
Linz, Austria
May 30, 2008
http://www.catalysts.cc/?id=ccc08
Agile Open [...]

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News

Instituto Nokia de Technologia has 30 new ScrumMaster
Boris speaks about CMMi = Scrum – A provocation to see the truth, in Recife, 23.05.08
Boris did a Making of Certified ScrumMaster class in Recife.
Brain rules for Presenters, Garr Reynolds, check this out.

Cool Blogs

Mike Visdoz has written also a very interesting article about abnormal termination.

Trainings

Public Certified ScrumMaster training [...]

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How does the SoS, the PO-Daily Scrum and the ScrumMasters Weekly work together? — Vienna
It is not so simple to answer this question, as it depends a lot on your organization.  But basically it is run this way.
Every day each team has a Daily Scrum. The Daily Scrum is only used for creating a high density communication [...]

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How to handle extreme problems coming form the outside within a sprint! Do we really need to abort the sprint? Different solutions? — Vienna
An abnormal termination is an abnormal termination.  As long as the team believes they can do it, they will try it and succeed.  The important point here is: the team decides.  No [...]

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How to run Scrum in small teams — 90% of all companies are small? — Vienna
Was the question I got in the evalutation sheet last week in Vienna.  Small project teams.  That is the domain of Scrum.  Findings have shown us that small teams are far more productive than large teams. 5 to 7 people is the [...]

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I am in Brazil this week and next week.  More exactly I will be in Recife from 19th till 25th and in Sao Paulo from 25th till 31th of May.
Sao Paulo: I will be in the Bar of the Hotel Raddison Faria Lima, on the 30th after the Training.  So maybe you should stop by [...]

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Wow! The best agile promotion video I have seen. It is an advertisement for a consulting company, but it is really good. Give it to your boss – it explains the difference between the two approaches in a very emotional and very nice story.

Congratulations! — Boris Gloger

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The next ScrumMaster Certification in Denmark with Kurt Nielson and myself, will be in Vejle on the 3rd of September 2008.
[googlemaps http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=vejle,+Havneparken+2&sll=55.709214,9.535865&sspn=1.137362,1.650696&ie=UTF8&t=h&z=14&ll=55.712269,9.545403&output=embed&s=AARTsJqJgnI64q-c92yaFvJUYVrY4Z_3_A&w=425&h=350]
Details about the Agenda of the training can be found here
The class will be run by Kurt Nielson and Boris Gloger.

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Auf dem Retrospective facilitator gathering, hier in Bath, UK – hatte ich plötzlich Lust eine Open-Space Session über das Schreiben zu leiten. Ich hatte Lust dazu, anderen dabei zu helfen, herauszufinden, über was sie schreiben wollen und wie sie schreiben wollen.
Was mir selbst dabei klar geworden ist: Man muss seine eigene Antriebsfeder finden. Was entzündet [...]

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I do read Tom Peter, Re-Imagine and Jim Collins, Good to Great in parallel. I am inspired by both books and I start to think what is the right way for this decade.
Tom Peters rants about Jim Collins:
One of the biggest business best-sellers of the past 20 years is Built to Last, by Jom Collins [...]

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