Most of you know already that Ken Schwaber resigned from the Scrum Alliance as President. You might also know that Jim Cundiff is not the CEO of the Scrum Alliance anymore. Currently the Scrum Alliance has announced an interims CEO: Lowell Lindstrom.
We will see what will happen in the next days and I am really [...]

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We run a Scrum class in Sao Paulo tomorrow. I am so happy to see old friends again. …. in case you are interested in attending, we do have some free seats. I believe 3 or so. ….
Oh … if you are a student of an brazilian university, and you are the first that sent [...]

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A ScrumMaster is a change agent. Leadership is necessary to create the future. The video below will inspire you — I promise.

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I have too much to do. I need your help. There are a lot of new Scrum Tools in the market. A lot of them are already mentioned in comments to my tool reviews. I need them reviewed by you …
If you want to write a review, please try to follow a bit the way [...]

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I found this video … 
I really like the way it is presented. But then I see that 100000+ people have seen it, and all of them now believe some things about Scrum that are not right. F.e. ….

We do NOT do a Burn Down Chart based on the tasks anymore.
The estimates must not done based [...]

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Mag sein, dass alle über die Krise schimpfen und ihre Jobs verlieren, ihre Margen kürzen oder Leute entlassen müssen. Ich merk davon nix. Krise? Wo denn? In den Medien, in den Köpfen, aber in den Unternehmen, die diese Krise nutzen, um sich neu auszurichten, sicherlich nicht. Ich habe offenbar die richtigen Kunden.
Lust mir beim Scrum [...]

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Genial! Wir hatten wirklich Spass. Der Scrum Cooking Event war einfach toll. Das Training war ne Wucht! Ihr werdet sagen … das sagt er immer, aber nein, wirklich … diesmal hatten wir zum Beispiel beim Thema Schätzen das erste Mal von Anfang an die Situation, dass die neue Weise, Schätzen als Messen zu verstehen, grundsätzlich [...]

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The most interesting session of the the Scrum Gathering will be of course the talk of Jodok Batlogg. Jodok Batlogg is the CTO of StudiVZ. A social network with more than 18.000.000 Users who use this service heavily.
He will talk about the real problems of an implementation and some findings we made during this implementation. [...]

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also ehrlich …dass der film gut sein soll, habe ich schon gehört … aber selbst mit viel viel über sich selbst lachen können, finde ich, dass es grenzen des guten geschmacks gibt.
aber ich will euch nicht vorenthalten, was es so an ideen gibt. jedem das seine:

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We will run a class tomorrow in Vienna. I am so happy about this class. Again we will do the cooking after the class. We have full house. With a lot of customers dealing with super demanding goals using Scrum. Cool!

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quick update. The Scrum Alliance announced that they will start the written test exame to become a CSM in Oct.

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sorry for not writing a couple of days. but i am soo busy. customer requests, trainings, customer request, implementation ….
that leads me to the point. I need help. Full time consultants (no coaches, my teams does consulting, not coaching). I need people, people, people … english is must, willingness to travel, 4 to 5 days [...]

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Mirko Novakovic wrote a short summary about our discussion, we had at meet-the-experts, in Solingen a couple of weeks ago.
“[...] Even so, we have not always been able to fully implement Scrum together with our customers. During Jeff’s training, but also in Scrum Books by Ken Schwaber, it is always assumed, that Product Owner, Scrum Master and Team [...]

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Here the official announcement of the Scrum Alliance:
CSM Certification
In order to better meet the needs of our expanding international Scrum community, we will postpone the written exam requirement for certification as a ScrumMaster until we can localize the exam. This will allow all Scrum certification candidates to attest to their knowledge of Scrum in a [...]

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Software Estimation creates fear in most Software Development projects. So why not stopping something that blocks people from being creative?
Repetition: We compare the complexity of a functionality B with the reference complexity of functionality A.

So – we have not considered a) the way we implement the functionality A or B and b) we did [...]

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The Scrum Alliance anounced today, that it will postpone the test to become a Certified ScrumMaster.
The reason is, that they decided that the test needs to be localized, to allow people to do the test in the native language.

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It was such a cool idea. The software development industry failed to deliver reliable estimates of tasks. So why not estimate features, or stories with an arbitrary unit. Story Points had been born.

The basic idea is to create a reference item and then base all estimates as a relation to this reference item. A wonderful [...]

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