We are happy to introduce the Scrumlies Product Owner to you. She is 32 years and has a strong business and movie back ground. When she was a teenager and a young adult she was an well known actress in a couple of tv series and a model for well known brands.
Later, she decided became [...]

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The Scrumlies ScrumMaster is a master in a lot of techniques. One speciality of him is the “Art of the Possibility”. He practised this art since he was 14. He has a 5. dan in “The Art of the Possibilities.” He knows a lot about finding new opportunities in crisis and the indefinite space of possibilities (Benjamin [...]

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Thanks to www.presentationzen.com for showing this to us. But my thank you to Garr is not only about this. I have to thank you for the great ideas, the inspiring moments and the wonderful insights I got from his blog and his book in 2008.
Thank You!

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Bei den Recherchen für meine Arbeit über Software Entwicklung bin ich auf diesen Artikel in einem Blog gestoßen. Ziemlich provokative, nicht neutral, aber dennoch vielleicht gerade deshalb lesenswert:
Gemeint sind hier die indischen IT-Dienstleister. Diese produzieren Software nach Fabrikmethoden, sie sind bekannt für die Qualität ihrer Prozesse. Nirgendwo werden so viele CMMI 5 Zertifikate ausgestellt wie [...]

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For everybody who speaks Portuguese this entry about Scrum in Maringá might be of interest:
A empresa de consultoria SWQuality inicia programa inovador em Maringa/PR. Ana Rouiller e Boris Gloger desenvolveram em conjunto uma metodologia para auxiliar o aumento da capacidade das empresas usando CMMI/MPS.BR e SCRUM que promete revolucionar os atuais processos da industria nacional, [...]

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In 2004 Mike Beedle co-author of “Agile Development with Scrum”  (2001), put a website together: Balanced Agility. On this website he talked about that to be successful in doing agile software development you should have Scrum plus 3 practices in place:
You development Evolution can be:

Start with Balanced Agility (Scrum + 3 engineering practice
Add Other Engineering Practices as needed

 
These are [...]

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We my team and I had — together with our families — a very nice christmas event Yesterday. We went to the Queen Musical “We will rock you” in Stuttgart.  
I mention this because the show was much more social critical as I expected. They presented a world that is ruled by marketing and [...]

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On my search for an ideal Scrum-Team I was sitting in libraries, in Cinemas, I walked through hundreds of offices, I was looking for the ideal Scrum-Team at airports and train stations, in subways and in restaurants. I saw Scrum-Teams working when i visited “Kim kocht”, I saw them working during the Football European Championship, I [...]

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Hallo Boris,
wir –das sind Frank Ristau und ich – sind aus Deiner ScrumMaster-Schulung raus und haben gleich am nächsten Montag unser aktuelles Projekt auf Scrum umgestellt. Hat auch prima geklappt, da wir phantastische Product-Owner haben, die innerhalb von ein paar Tagen das existierende Anforderungsmaterial in ein BackLog-umgewandelt haben.
Da das Team räumlich verteilt ist, kam direkt [...]

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I am very happy to announce that Maringá, Brazil has now 10 Certified ScrumMaster. We, Ana Rouiller (SWQuality) and myself did a very nice CSM Training in Curitiba, Brazil. All people came from Maringá.
The class was special because we had a big chalk board and this created the need for a new way of [...]

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SpiraPlan is a project management tool created by Inflectra Corporation. As said by the company, SpiraPlan was created to manage agile projects using, XP, Scrum, DSDM, etc. SpiraPlan is a web application and Inflectra provides a on-line demo, so you can try the tool before choosing to use it for real.  
First Steps
The first thing you notice [...]

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The Scrumlies presented Yesterday the Christmas Carol: Operation XMAS 2008. We used this time to present them in action. They performed a small play for you and we hoped you enjoyed it. Today the team borisgloger and the Scrumlies want to wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. 

 
In case you can not [...]

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The reindeer had made a terrible mistake. Curious as it was, it opened the bottle and drank the port wine that I had prepared for my friends  in Oslo. Now it was drunken and had a terrible headache. The timing  of the reindeer was really bad! 

In 2 hours we needed to start to deliver the [...]

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Scrum ist in Deutschland auf dem Vormarsch — immer mehr Menschen in Deutschland besuchen Workshops, gehen in Trainings und suchen Unterstützung.
Letzte Woche haben wir wieder 35 Mitarbeiter einer bekannten Firma in Berlin in Scrum ausgebildet. Ich bin froh darüber, dass wir wieder 35 Menschen in Deutschland mehr haben, die tatsächlich wissen wovon sie reden, wenn [...]

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In general, your concern is true. People needs to “hear and view” colleagues.
There is a very cool discussion about Daily Scrum amongst distributed teams ongoing on the Yahoo Agile Project Management Group (agileprojectmanagement@yahoogroups.com). 
Have a look

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In general, your concern is true. People needs to “hear and view” colleagues.
There is a very cool discussion about Daily Scrum amongst distributed teams ongoing on the Yahoo Agile Project Management Group (agileprojectmanagement@yahoogroups.com). 
Have a look

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Das Kinderhospitz Bärenherz hat den Bambi 2008 bekommen. Das freut mich besonders, weil die Teilnehmer der CSM Kurse in 2008 tatkräftig dazu beigetragen haben, dass die Bärenherz Stiftung arbeiten kann. Erst letzte Woche “musste” ich wieder 180,- Euro an die Bärenherz Stiftung überweisen. (Die Teilnehmer sind extra zu spät aus den Pausen zurückgekommen und haben anschließend [...]

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On the Scrum Gathering Heiko presented the button “I am an impediment” during the Scrum Gathering. A funny button, or? But do you know what the history of this button is? A joke I make in all my classes when we talk about ScrumMasters who do more roles than the ScrumMaster role. I give the [...]

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The next three days I will be in Maringa and then for two days in Curitiba. I will be in the Bristol Hotel, Maringa on Tuesday 9th at 18:00. Maybe you want to join me for a drink?

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I found a very interesting statement on Crouch, touch, pause…engage.

Recently, I attended the SD Best Practices Conference and I was interested to hear Rick Brenner and Nancy Van Schooenderwoert say this about XP and Scrum:
The technical practices of XP give [teams] a sustained productivity increase, while Scrum practices give a quick productivity boost and then [...]

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Question: How can a team choose the right architecture, the right framework and the right way to build it?
Answer: By fulfilling a commitment!
Reading “Emergent Design” by Scott L. Bain, I found an interesting statement: “Professionals know that there are always a number of ways of solving any given problem, and they make a decision based [...]

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I can not stop thinking about James Shores article. So lets deconstruct it:
It’s odd to talk about the decline and fall of the agile movement, especially now that it’s so popular, but I actually think the agile movement has been in decline for several years now.
Wonderful entry – an eye catcher. Well written. A provocation. [...]

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