I was so fascinated by the editorial from the Editor of the Harvard Business Review, that I would like to share it here with you:
Big ideas come from tackling big problems. When one is confronted with an overwhelming task, it’s pieces.  Business jargon is full of phrases about that, like “pilot projects” and “low-hanging fruit.”  [...]

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Garr Reynolds did a very interesting post about Storytelling and Leadership:
As children we were naturally good at telling stories about events or topics that mattered and learning from others via their stories, but as we became older we were taught that serious people relied only on presenting information and “the facts.” Accurate information, sound logic, [...]

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How important transparency was, was something I saw again last week. The simple fact that we created a better visibility about what happens in a couple of teams led to more communication across teams and that created a higher level of trust.
The theory behind this is based in the work of Niklas Luhmann, Valera, Glassersfeld, [...]

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Retrospectives are a VERY important part of Scrum. The heartbeat retrospectives will enable a team to become more productive from Sprint to Sprint. Unfortunately a lot of teams perform retrospectives, but they also do not run them very well. In my book: Scrum – Produkte zuverlässig und schnell entwickeln.  I describe the way you should [...]

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Dear Agile associate,
I am supporting a research project by fourth-year Information Systems students at the University of Cape Town on the impact of collocation on team effectiveness. The attached letter explains the study.
I would be very grateful if you would be willing to forward this mail to applicable team(s) that you work with with the [...]

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Bas Voode introduced the Nokia Test to us ScrumTrainers a couple of years ago. Thanks to the promotion of Jeff we started to consider whether this test might help teams to understand if they “really” do Scrum.
The slides show you the questions.
If you fail one of them you have a high risk impediment and you should solve [...]

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If you want to tell someone what Scrum is about in 2 min, this video might help you:

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Die Aufgaben des ScrumMaster lassen sich in sechs Teilbereiche zerlegen:

Scrum Implementieren
Das Abarbeiten von Impediments und das Treffen von Entscheidungen
Die Arbeit mit dem Team
Die Arbeit mit dem Product Owner
Scrum in die Organisation hineintragen und die Organisation ändern
Die Steigerung der Produktivität des Teams

Jeder Teilbereich ist dabei gleich wichtig. Die Reihenfolge, in der der ScrumMaster die einzelnen Teilgebiete [...]

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The video about the Euro-Fighter and the Bugatti reminded me about a principle that I also explained in my book: You need to have built-in instability to create an agile airplane. This is a principle of all fighter airplanes and they need to be controlled by using data from all aspects of the flight and only [...]

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We will run a Certified ScrumMaster training in Vienna on the 17./18.09. This class is going to be again something very different.
My guest star this time is Stacia Broderick. Stacia is the co-author of “The Software Project Manager’s Bridge to Agility.” Stacia and I worked several times together and I know this will be an [...]

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Das Team liefert das Produkt. Es ist verantwortlich für die Qualität des Produktes. Das Team erabeitet mit den Anforderern, den Kunden und den Anwendern, die Product Backlog Items und somit die Anforderungen, analysiert die Anforderungen, entwickelt das Design, implementiert und testet die Anforderungen und liefert das Produkt wie vereinbart aus.
Das Team commitet sich auf die [...]

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There is a nice introductory video about Scrum on YouTube that I just found today:

It was based on the characters and photos taken by: Jeff, Jens, Jim, Gabby and others. Very nicely done it is too.
I have only a couple of comments:
The video still shows certain things about Scrum that I do not teach any longer, such [...]

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Spass hat es gemacht, einmal Einblick in die Games Branche Deutschlands zu bekommen. Das Certified ScrumMaster Training zusammen mit der Games Academy in Berlin war für alle, und ehrlich gesagt, ganz besonders für mich, ein voller Erfolg.
So viele neue Eindrücke darüber, wie Software Entwicklung in einem ganz speziellen Bereich funktioniert habe ich lange nicht bekommen. [...]

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Das Aufteilen der Task im Sprint Planning 2 funktioniert manchmal gut, manchmal nicht so gut. Die Idee von Tobias Mayer zwei Jahre zuvor, nur noch Tasks zu akzeptieren, die kleiner als 2h sind war so fantastisch, dass wir sie in vielen Teams implementiert hatten. Doch oft hat sich gezeigt, dass das “Erzwingen” von “kleinen” Tasks [...]

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Trainings

CSM Training in South Africa, August, together with Scrum Sense
CSM Training in Vienna, English, 17. September, Guest Star: Stacia Broderick
CSM Training in Denmark, 3rd September.

Detailed Information: Boris Glogers Trainings
News:

Trainings this week have been in Berlin and Mechelen – It was fun.

Blog Entries I found interesting:

Heiko on Tasksboards
ScrumBlog: Relatively old content, but worth having a look
Fighter [...]

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Der Product Owner plant und lenkt die Produktentwicklung. Er ist verantwortlich dafür, dass das Team die gewünschten Funktionalitäten in der richtigen Reihenfolge erstellt. Er ist dafür verantwortlich, dass die Projektergebnisse den finanziellen Aufwand für das Projekt rechtfertigen. Er arbeitet auf täglicher Basis mit dem Team, trifft zeitnah die notwendigen Entscheidungen und arbeitet kontinuierlich am Product [...]

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Auf dem 3. Deutschprachigen Treffen der Scrum Community habe ich mein Rollen Modell vorgestellt. Berhard Schiffer hat auf seinem Blog u.a. erläutert, was er aus meinem 20 Minuten Vortrag dazu verstanden hat.Er hat dabei auch erwähnt, dass Simon Roberts im gleichen Vortrag über die 3 + 1 Rolle gesprochen hatte. Die 1 Rolle stehe für [...]

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We ran a certified ScrumMaster training in a very nice atmosphere near Mechelen, Belgium. Together with Prosource, Mechelen, we again delivered a training that the participants really liked. I was especially happy because at the end of the training most people said they now understand that cherry-picking from Scrum does not work. They said they want to go [...]

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Letzten Freitag trafen sich ca. 60 Scrummies bei der Allianz in Unterföhring. Die Allianz hatte dem 3. Teffen der deutschprachigen Scrum Community in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz ihre Räume für einen Open Space zur Verfügung gestellt.
Die Allianz seit etwas über zwei Jahren damit begonnen Projekte mit Hilfe von Scrum durchzuführen und unter der Leitung [...]

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I have a friend, she has one of these very cool new iPhones. She is happy. Expecially because she is one of 5 of 50 customers who wanted to have this new gadget on Friday. The shop she went to only had 5 :(
The phenomenon is not new!  Whenever apple launches a new product its fans get mad about [...]

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A post in the presentation Blog of Garr Raynolds, reminded me about the exercise we sometimes do in the training:
See his entry on: The Art of the Possible!
In the training we just replace the phrase: “Yes, But!” with “Yes, And!”
A ScrumMaster faces tons of problems everyday.  He has to appreciate them and then he solves them.
FAST. VERY FAST! FASTER!!
Again — [...]

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My blog entry: “Organizations need to understand” has been translated to Portuguese. Incredible. Many thanks to Daniel.

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I found a very good description about how to perform a Daily Scrum. By the way the name of this meeting is
Daily Scrum
I do not need to repeat the list. Here it is!

The team has to do it themselves. It is for the team by the team.

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