Recently Rachel Davis, a very good and successful agile coach in the UK, wrote a short article about the difference between an agile coach and a ScrumMaster. She puts some very interesting questions in her post: “Yet what’s puzzling is that Scrum Alliance’s certification program includes Certified Scrum Coach, as an advanced level qualification on your [...]
Entries from November 30th, 2009
The role of a ScrumMaster: Scrum Coach vs. ScrumMaster
November 30th, 2009 · 5 Comments · Scrum
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Reading: Jochen Krebs: Did Scrum jump the shark?
November 29th, 2009 · No Comments · English, Scrum
Jochen Krebs wrote a post “Did Scrum jump the shark?” [1] that I first found a bit confusing but then I read it again and discovered very interesting thoughts:
“Wouldn’t you think that a group of 100,000 scrum master professionals would make a difference in the overall project success rate? A fact the Scrum Community will need [...]
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Scrum Tools | Price for the best Review
November 26th, 2009 · No Comments · Scrum
I have so 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!
The idea ist that you write a review about the tool that you like, or dislike. [...]
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Test Driven Development .NET
November 24th, 2009 · No Comments · Scrum
I found this very intersting class for .NET developers who want to learn TDD in January. (January 18 to January 22)
ROY OSHEROVE: TDD (TEST DRIVEN DEVELOPMENT) MASTERCLASS
This is a world class training event with one of the leading experts in the field. If you want to know how to do TDD and unit testing in [...]
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CSM Classes November 09 – Retrospect
November 23rd, 2009 · No Comments · Events, Good to know
In the last couple of weeks we did the CSM class in Munich, Vienna and Frankfurt. All three trainings had been a wonderful experience for me. Especially the training in Frankfurt I will always remember: I learned something about the way pilots use the maps in airplanes.
We tried new locations in Vienna and Frankfurt. I [...]
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The XP Days Tour Starts Tomorrow
November 22nd, 2009 · 1 Comment · English, Good to know, Scrum, Scrum as Business
As every year the XP Day Wave starts in Belgium.[1] The XP Conference in Mechelen is always worth to go, as a lot of very experience people will show up. The program [4] is really promising and I would love to go “Visual Management for Agile Teams”[5]. Unfortunately for me, it turned out far [...]
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Last CSM Training for 2009 in Munich
November 21st, 2009 · No Comments · Scrum
6 more weeks 2009… the last Certified ScrumMaster training from Boris 2009 is an english one in Munich with ScrumCooking @TNG! The 2 days CSM training is the requirement to be registered for the exam necessary to become a CSM under the rules of the Scrum Alliance – expect a huge amount of Scrum knowledge [...]
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CSM Exam Info
November 20th, 2009 · 1 Comment · After a training, English, Good to know
I want to forward an information from Howard Sublett (Scrum Alliance) to you – to make things around ScrumMaster certification process a bit more transparent to you…
“When a student first logs into the site (scrumalliance.org) and creates a profile, their expiry is set at 90 DAYS from that time for the window to complete the [...]
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KnowledgeToGo | Rebecca Saxe | Mind Reading | TED
November 17th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Scrum
Rebecca Saxe, PhD [1], Assistant Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, did a wonderful talk about the behavior of kids in a moral riddle. She shows in this talk how kids learn the ability to read peoples mind and that the body builds this ability by creating a special area in the brain. It is very [...]
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Flow vs. Rhythm, or Kanban vs. Scrum!?
November 14th, 2009 · No Comments · English, Production Systems, Scrum, Toyota Production System
Whenever I read articles or twitter comments about Kanban in Software Development, I have the feeling that most authors do not understand the topic about they write.
The famous Kanban system of Toyota was inspired by the way supermarkets supply their customers. “At Toyota, when a process goes to the preceding process to retrieve parts, it [...]
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Scrum Gathering Review Article from Brazil
November 11th, 2009 · No Comments · Events, Portuguese
A very nice article written by two brazilian speakers and participants of the Scrum Gathering in Munich em portugues on INFOQ.
Obrigados e cumprimentos ao Rafael Sabbagh e Marcos Garrido.
http://www.infoq.com/br/news/2009/11/scrum-gathering-alemanha
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Scrum and its success – 60000 CSMs
November 5th, 2009 · 1 Comment · English, Good to know
Last week the Scrum Alliance published the number [1]. We are now more than 60000 Certified ScrumMasters. This year around 22000 ScrumMasters have been to classes and got the certification (of attendance). That is a bit more than last year, but not a jump like the years before.
So the market starts to consolidate! Bad news [...]
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CSPO Class in Oslo
November 5th, 2009 · No Comments · After a training, Product Owner, Scrum
Besides the fact that everything was against me, when I was in Oslo, the class was great! We discussed all relevant issues of being a Product Owner. Oslo has now 8 newly certified ScrumMasters. Congratulations!
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Last minute | CSM Trainings next week + Student seats
November 5th, 2009 · No Comments · Scrum
There are 2 CSM Trainings next week:
Monday+Tuesday
9.+10.11. Vienna a german CSM class with ScrumCooking
Thursday+Friday
12.+13.11. Frankfurt an english CSM class
What we do regularly: Giving some seats to students.
SO ALL STUDENTS LISTEN RIGHT NOW:
I offer a FREE seat in Vienna and a FREE seat in Frankfurt in my CSM Training for a student. Be very well educated!
First [...]
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Some Gathering Links
November 2nd, 2009 · No Comments · Scrum
Some interesting comments about the Scrum Gathering.
- Andy Brandt, Talks about some talks he attended [1]
- Armer Kater, [2]
[1] http://www.andybrandt.net/506/scrum-gathering-2009-day-three-and-final-comments/comment-page-1#comment-58182
[2] http://www.armerkater.de/2009/10/scrum-gathering-mnchen/
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Der klassische Projektmanager in Scrum
November 1st, 2009 · No Comments · Scrum
… oder wie sich der klassische Projektmanager in Scrum auf die drei Rollen verteilt. Uwe Friedrichsen hat wunderschön und viel besser als ich es kann aufgeschrieben, wie sich die Rolle des Projektmanagers auf die drei Rollen PO, SM und Team verteilt. Sehr lesenswert.
[1] http://blog.codecentric.de/2009/10/der-klassische-projektmanager-in-scrum/
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