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Entries from February 28th, 2009

Getting Things Done With Gmail and Firefox

February 28th, 2009 · 1 Comment · 00 checked, Scrum

Have a look, it is great! I use it extensively and it is the best tool to organize your inbox. You get it here!

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Protection Poker

February 27th, 2009 · No Comments · 00 checked, Scrum

Laurie Williams, an associate professor of computer science at North Carolina State University, and her team came up with a risk management tool called Protection Poker, which software developers can use to identify security vulnerabilities in their programs early on. And all that’s involved is for programmers to lay their cards on the table.
ftp://ftp.ncsu.edu/pub/unity/lockers/ftp/csc_anon/tech/2008/TR-2008-21.pdf

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Nettes aber unzulängliches Posting

February 23rd, 2009 · 3 Comments · 00 checked, Scrum

Habe gerade dieses Posting gefunden:
Oft wird erwähnt, dass Scrum gerade für Situationen geeignet ist, in denen Kreativität gewünscht ist. Dabei bezieht man sich auf Ikujiro Nonaka und Hirotaka Takeuchi, die Ihren Artikel “The New New Product Development Game” 1986 im Harvard Business Review eben solche Situationen untersucht haben. Sie haben zwar ein sinnvolles Vorgehen mit dem [...]

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The Team in Brazil | Scrumlies

February 23rd, 2009 · No Comments · 00 checked, Scrum

The Team was in Brazil this week. Doing an episode during Carnival. The Team was invited by a big TV broadcasting company to visit Galo do Madruga in Recife. A spectacle similar to the carnival in Cologne but in 35 degrees Celsius and frevo songs the whole day.
I was able to talk to the [...]

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Going Large by Staying Small – Slideshare Showcast

February 21st, 2009 · No Comments · 00 checked, Scrum

Wow! My presentation “Going Large by Staying Small” is now showcasted by the Editor Team in the BusinessMngt Section.

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Nächstes offenes Training | Certified ScrumMaster Wien 3. und 4. März

February 20th, 2009 · No Comments · 00 checked, Book a training, Deutsch, Scrum, Vienna

Am 3. und 4. März gibt es das nächste Certified ScrumMaster Training auf deutsch in Wien. Antwort auf die Frage wie, wo, wann und warum Scrum funktioniert. Für 5 Leute, 50 oder 500. Skalierbarkeit, Scrum of Scrums, grosse Organisation mit kleinen Teams, Effektivität, Selbstbestimmheit, mehr Freude an der Arbeit sind neben einem kompletten Überblick [...]

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Going LARGE by Staying small

February 17th, 2009 · 5 Comments · 00 checked, Brazil, Presentation, Scrum

Tom Peters called it – “Crazy times call for crazy organizations” (The Tom Peters Seminar 1994) We are in crazy times. The bubble bursts and capital gets destroyed in larger chunks than in any time before. Obama tries to help his country to survive this crisis and one thing is absolutely clear – going large [...]

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Genervte ScrumMaster …

February 17th, 2009 · No Comments · 00 checked, Scrum

Wirklich gute Fragen:
“Warum konzentrieren wir uns nicht erstmal auf das, was am Ende der Nutzen der Software sein soll?
Warum möchte der Kunde unsere Software unbedingt haben?
Und überhaupt – wer ist dieser Kunde? Wir könnten uns doch Personas überlegen, vielleicht bekommen wir auf diese Art unsere Vorstellungen auf eine Linie?”
geklaut bei Heiko …

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Scrum Tools | Agile Buddy | Review

February 16th, 2009 · 3 Comments · 00 checked, Scrum

“Simplifying the Agile project management”. That’s the Agile Buddy catch phrase. As you can see Agile Buddy is a tool to manage agile project. It runs on the web and was developed by Brightspark. It has a good look and feeling, with the main features organized in tabs. There is a free trial available if [...]

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A Comment about my class this week in Hamburg

February 12th, 2009 · 1 Comment · 00 checked, After a training, English, Scrum

Hi Boris,
as I saw on your blog you got your flight in time after your amazing CSM-class in Hamburg. It’s still snowing in Germany, so enjoy your stay in Brazil. I’m back in my company the 2nd day and suddenly I see lots of things in each and every office that can be improved dramatically [...]

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Recife

February 11th, 2009 · 2 Comments · 00 checked, Brazil, English, Scrum

Back in Brazil. It is tooo warm, too much moister in the air – but it is soooooooooooo great!

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Sprint!

February 10th, 2009 · No Comments · 00 checked, English, Ideas, Scrum

Seth has a very specific idea about sprinting in business, but it is worth to read it!
The best way to overcome your fear of creativity, brainstorming, intelligent risk taking or navigating a tricky situation might be to sprint.

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Open Trainings | Registration forms

February 9th, 2009 · No Comments · 00 checked, Book a training, English, Scrum

To make enrolling to an Open Training easier, we have now Registration forms online for the trainings within the next 3 months. Hopefully this helps a bit  to be more clearly layed out for CSM Trainings you can register to.  See trainings4you!

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Product development is a creative endeavor

February 7th, 2009 · 2 Comments · 00 checked, English, Scrum, Software Development

I found a great post:
Product development is a fundamentally creative endeavor that requires incredibly tight coordination among the participants. Three great developers are usually better than thirty average developers, particularly if they have worked together before and if there are one or two strong leaders among them. More

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Distribution of Certified ScrumMasters in Germany

February 5th, 2009 · 1 Comment · 00 checked, After a training, English, Scrum

Heiko has put on his blog a very nice picture about the distribution of ScrumMasters in Germany.
It is fantastic – because it remembered me about a lot of trainings I did :) The stories about Hamburg, Lintfort, Munich with Ken …
Thanks.

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Nächste Woche | Certified ScrumMaster Training in Hamburg

February 3rd, 2009 · No Comments · 00 checked, Before a training, Deutsch, Scrum

Das zweite offene Training 2009! DEUTSCH!
Neues Jahr, neue Dinge – dieses Training ist eines der letzten, das bei erfolgreichem Kursbesuch mit der Zertifizierung als ScrumMaster endet. Ab April folgt auf ein solches Training eine Prüfung (online) vor der ScrumAlliance. Mit oder ohne Prüfung, in 2 intensiven Trainingstagen erwartet einen mehr als Wissen, ein guter [...]

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Scrum Tools | VersionOne

February 3rd, 2009 · 1 Comment · 00 checked, English, Scrum, ScrumTools

I have known VersionOne since I first used it 3 years ago. V1 is a very powerful Scrum Tool that helped a lot of teams all over the world. I refused to do a review so far, because I did want to give other tools a voice. I regard V1 as big player so they do not [...]

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Certified ScrumMaster Training | München | Januar

February 2nd, 2009 · 2 Comments · 00 checked, Deutsch, Scrum, Scrum Training

Ein tolles Training – wirklich, es hat mir großen Spass gemacht. Ein Training der besonderen Art. Zusammen mit der TNG in München, Unterföhring — 2 Gehminuten von ProSieben entfernt, haben wir für 30 Teilnehmer ein Certified ScrumMaster veranstaltet.
Mir hat es großen Spass gemacht, weil sehr viele Teilnehmer im Kurs saßen, die sich schon intensiv mit [...]

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Scrum in the Games industry | Games Focus 2009

February 1st, 2009 · 3 Comments · 00 checked, English, Presentation, Scrum

Games studios need to find ways to survive the harder and harder business.
Why not using Scrum to overcome the issues of using old and not adequate processes for the games industry.
This presentation shows you why you should use Scrum. It can be very helpful.

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