The Scrum Alliance and we CSTs asked the attendees of the Scrum Gathering in Stockholm last week to test the Test that we will use from 1 January to certify ScrumMasters. It was a success and and it will help the test development team to adjust the test.
I mentioned this here in my blog to [...]

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The Product Owner is an entrepreneur:
An entrepreneur is a person who has possession over a company, enterprise, or venture, and assumes significant accountability for the inherent risks and the outcome. The term is a loanword from French and was first defined by the Irish economist Richard Cantillon. Entrepreneur in English is a term applied to the type of personality who is willing to take [...]

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Es gibt auf der Yahoo Mailing List der deutschen Scrum gerade eine interessante Diskussion über den Sinn und Nicht-Sinn von traditionellen Verfahren. Ich habe gerade dort gerade gepostet:
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… sind bewährte Methoden sinnvoll? Ist erlerntes und überliefertes zu verwerfen, nur weil es etwas Neues gibt? Sicherlich nicht! 
Aber ist das denn tatsächlich etwas, was hier oder in anderen [...]

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One outcome of the ScrumGathering in Stockholm, last week, was that we started to organize the Scrum Gathering in Germany 2009.
This will be an international Scrum Gathering. I expect to have Ken and Jeff, and a lot other international well known Scrum people in Germany.
I am very happy that this event will happen in Germany. [...]

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Last week at the Certified ScrumTrainers Retreat we had a very good social event. We cooked together. We formed teams and then, guided by a couple of very good cooks, we cooked a delicious dinner. I was impressed how good the food was we created. 
The trainer retreat was again very special as we tackled some of [...]

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Ken did again a very motivating talk during the  Scrum Gathering in Stockholm last week. I talked already about it. You can find the summery here. 
Ken tried to make clear again, that Scrum manages complex environments.
He referred back to an article: 
“A Leader’s Framework for Decision Making”, David J Snowdon and Mary E Boone” in the Harvard [...]

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I found on Jeff Sutherlands blog the new entry “Agile Contracts: Money for Nothing and Your Change for Free“. It refers to a project that Jens Oestergaard and Jeff Sutherland started: Agile Contracts.
I like the Vision statement that Jens posted: 
      Vision
      from jeos12 on Oct 22, 2008 05:26 PM
      Our primary goal is [...]

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There is another description of the Scrum User Group Kick-off in Recife this month  http://macaubas.com/agile/kick-off-scrum-user-group-recife

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Igor Macaubas translated my article about my visit to Provider Sistemas.
Boris Gloger: Visita surpresa na Provider Sistemas
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No dia 09/10/2008, eu e o Marcos Pereira havíamos acabado de terminar uma retrospectiva em um dos nossos projetos, quando o meu celular toca. Era Ana Cristina, da SWQuality. Quando atendi, Ana falou que estava na portaria [...]

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1. Wir orientieren uns an der Maximierung des Wertes für den product owner/product sponsor
2. Wir orientieren uns menschlichen Werten untereinander und fokussieren auf den jeweiligen Sprinterfolg
3. Wir werfen Altes über Bord und akzeptieren Neues wenn es dem Sprint nutzt
4. Wir schätzen einander für die Aufgaben, Kompetenze und Verantwortungen, zu denen wir uns comitten
5. Wir generieren [...]

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I wanted to share with you the slides I presented on the Scrum User Group Launch last week. I talked about the history of Scrum and how important it is to keep the ten basic practices alive:

Vision
Product Backlog
Prioritization
Sizing
Daily Scrums 
Burn Down Charts
Do not disturbe a Sprint
Done Software
Review
Retrospectives

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Ken started to emphasis the importance of the “Timebox!” Ken also said he wanted to make clear that a lot of misunderstanding are currently out in the Scrum-Community. He wanted to clarify some of them.
“Scrum is a tool, a framework you can use to find out what need to do to build quality software.”
He mentioned again, it [...]

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SWQuality, Recife, Brazil, organized a very special event. Ana Rouiller a very famous person in Brazil in the whole Quality and Testing community brought the best CMMi experts from Brazil together to discuss the possibilities to combine Scrum and CMMi. 
I did present my talk about CMMi and Scrum to start the discussion and then we [...]

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The picture next shows the success Salesforce.com had, when the introduced Scrum in a Big Bang approach within 2 weeks after 3 month. Featurs delivered per team started to increase dramatically and the days till next release dropped.
By implementing Scrum “by the book” as the speakers said today at the Scrum Gathering in Stockholm and [...]

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If you want to read about the new Scrum User Group in Recife, Brazil in Portuguese – here is an article about it: 
Compareci ao kickoff da criação do grupo Scrum User Group Recife na quarta-feira passada. Acho muito interessante esse tipo de iniciativa, pois já é comum haver colaboração virtual através da internet, mas nada [...]

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I want to show how Scrum grows in Brazil. More and more companies in Brazil start to use Scrum to increase the productivity of their teams. In this software development department the whole department runs Scrum. All four teams have task-boards and start to do the things right. They make increasingly progress because their ScrumMasters [...]

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 In the streets of Recife Antiquo, Porto Digital someone gave me a drum and showed me how to play Maracatu. It was fun. Ana Rouillier organized this event to celebrate the new office in Porto Digital.

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Bom Dia, …  Igor did a very nice translation of the product backlog iceberg pictureto portuguese  on his blog. Have a look!

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Ich freue mich endlich einmal in Karlsruhe am 10. November ein Training geben zu können. Ist mal was anderes im eigenen Hinterhof “Fussball” als immer auswärts zu spielen.
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Das besondere an diesem Training ist, dass wir uns am Abend gemeinsam zum Martinsgansessen treffen. Ich freue mich schon jetzt darauf mit Euch beim Essen über Scrum [...]

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 Ana Rouillier, Founder of SWQuality, invited us to use the new rooms of SWQuality in Recife, Brazil for launching the Scrum User Group Recife. More then 30 people followed our invitation to found this User Group. We had been very happy that Silvio Meira from C.E.S.A.R. was present also and said how important Scrum for [...]

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Peter Hundermark reports a new record in the ball-points game. 103! see more

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Hallo Boris,
wie vorhin über Skype abgesprochen, hier ein erstes Feedback zum 3-Tages-Training in Graz für Deinen Blog:
Die Reaktionen der Teilnehmer bei uns in der Firma sind ausnahmslos positiv – alle finden es super, dass wir das Training mit Dir veranstaltet haben. Du hast in den 3 Tagen 30 Leuten eine gemeinsame Vision davon vermittelt, wie [...]

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1. wir orientieren uns an der maximierung des wertes für den product owner/product sponsor
2. wir orientieren uns menschlichen werten untereinander und fokussieren auf den jeweiligen sprint-erfolg
3. wir werfen altes über bord und akzeptieren neues wenn es dem sprint nutzt
4. wir schätzen einander für die aufgaben, kompetenze und verantwortungen, zu denen wir uns comitten
5. wir generieren [...]

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