If you want to know how to run my ball point game as a waterfall project have a look here.

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I got a question last week: “What is the one thing I need to make sure to have a successful Scrum?”
My answer to this question was at the beginning and is still:
Make sure that the team delivers one functionality potentially shippable at the end of an iteration. 
I have seen a lot of Scrum development Teams [...]

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I am maybe alone with this opinion, but I do only understand how to apply Scrum in an organization, if I add 3 more roles to Scrum:
 The Customer – He orders the product. He pays the money at the end.
The End-User – He uses the product. He is the only one who really knows how [...]

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XPLive is a web based tool to manage agile projects, but it also available as an Eclipse plugin or as a Visual Studio 2005 add-in. XPLive aren’t based on Scrum only but tries to map practices from the most used agile approaches like Scrum, XP, Crystal, etc. As web tool you don’t need to install [...]

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Diese Woche bin ich wieder im Technologie-Zentrum Deutschlands. Ich finde es immer wieder spannend, darüber nachzudenken, das in Deutschland, im Gegensatz zu den meisten anderen europäischen Ländern das Zentrum der technologischen Forschung nicht in der Hauptstadt, sondern in einer bis zum 2. Weltkrieg relativ unbedeutenden Stadt ist = München.
Aber das hat sich ja seit den [...]

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I got an request last week: I shall write a post about an overview of the Scrum Roles. Here it is:
ScrumMaster: The ScrumMaster is the development teams best friend. He protects the Scrum-Team to avoid disturbances. He is responsible for removing impediments of all kinds, and he is responsible for Scrum and all this means. A ScrumMaster [...]

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Salesforce.com, Amazon.com, Web.de, Yahoo.com and a lot of other companies that are doomed to fail if they do not continuously work on their architecture. These companies do have a big question:
How do you create an understanding how fast you build / re-do your architecture?
I do have a proposal to solve this question: 

You might have an architecture team: [...]

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Thanks to presentationzen.com again. Garr found a fascinating talk by Scott McCloud. I do have all his books about comics. Very cool and I loved to hear from him what it needs to make a vision: First we need to understand that there are three types of vision:
1. Vision based on what [...]

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ProjectCards is a tool created by ProjeNova, an IT company from Quebec, Canada. The goal for ProjectCards is to be used by anyone involved on the project and with any flavour of agile process. ProjectCards have a Eclipse look and feel and is also available as an Eclipse plug in. If you are familiar with [...]

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When we started doing Scrum, we had already a living portal. So we did Scrum in a more or less minor enhancement and maintenance environment. 
Small features, 1 to 10 days of effort. We prioritized them together with our business people every two weeks and we developed always complete functionality. 
So Scrum is a very good framework for maintenance [...]

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Today we had a very nice discussion about Sprints and Releases and Maintenance.
Scrum is about product development. So – in the beginning, in release 1, you do not have a product. After the first release you do have one. In the first release you can not really create a valid idea about productivity, because it is [...]

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 To be able to know when my friends over the world are awake – I put five watches into my office. 
Needs still improvement, but is already usable product:
New York, Recife, Vienna, Tokio, Sidney

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I met Product Owner in her apartment in New York. She told about the difficulties and responsibilities of a Product Owner. She have us some insights into what she does on a daily basis.
Boris: Thanks a lot for having some time for us. You have a tight schedule. On what do you work currently?
Product Owner: Oh, we [...]

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Das erste offene Training 2009 gibt es dieses Mal in Hamburg – auf deutsch!
Antworten auf viele offene Fragen, jede Menge aktuelle Ideen und Tendenzen, die Mut und Schwung machen, Scrum tatsächlich in der eigenen Arbeit einzusetzen. 
Neues Jahr, neue Dinge:
Zu dem Training in Hamburg, wird es das erste Mal die Scrum Checklists vom team boris gloger geben [...]

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Since I was a student I struggle with researching and keeping notes and citations. When I wrote my book, I was lucky because I did not had too much and could use stuff directly from the books I was reading. 
But my next project is too big to do this. I will write my dissertation about [...]

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The Story that you write will be metaphor for your life. Your character is you! … It means that the life issue that most concerns you now will be explored in your writing. (How to write a movie in 21 days).
I found this very intrigue! This clear insight helped me to write my first movie [...]

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“Scrum” versucht den Prozess der Software – Entwicklung so zu organisieren, dass er Spaß macht .
Wo Software geschrieben wird, ist das Scheitern nicht weit. Viel wurde unternommen, um das Programmieren zu einer durchkontrollierten Fließbandarbeit zu machen. Doch die Rituale überbordenden Kontrollzwangs gehen oft auf Kosten von Kreativität und Geschwindigkeit, und ihr Hauptversprechen, die Vermeidung von [...]

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Today we have the first day of 2009 and I want to wish you all the best for 2009!
To remind you and me that our life is an infinite number of possibilities, I want to share with you a talk of Benjamin Zander that I found a view days ago via the help www.presentationzen.com. [...]

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