“The mike is yours, Penelope”
“Thanks, Arnie! Oh God, what a moment! The success of “Nurse Mary’s Naughty Memoirs” has lots of parents… I would like to thank my director Scott, I’d like to thank Boris, our mastermind. I’d like to thank our wonderful actors Peter, Paul, and Mary, oh I love you! I’d like to [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Estimation'
Job Offers | Developers and more
March 6th, 2010 · No Comments · Scrum · Edit
A customer in the area of Karlsruhe is looking for
Java Professionals
System architects
BI Consultants
and Linux Admins
in a technology oriented environment. The customer is an IT consultant and deals with the development of individual business software (Java, Ruby, and .NET), with the realization of business-intelligence-systems on the basis of technologies by Microsoft and SAP, and with services [...]
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Upcoming CSM Training | Next Week Vienna
March 5th, 2010 · No Comments · Scrum · Edit
The next German Certified Scrum training in Vienna with ScrumCooking is on 15+16 March – meaning Monday and Tuesday in two weeks.
Why a CSM training? …if the “method” is that easy as often stated to the advantage of Scrum? – Scrum changes the way of thinking and acting of developers, managers and people responsible for [...]
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Leaving the binary!
March 4th, 2010 · No Comments · Scrum · Edit
A large office space somewhere CEE. It is close to nine in the morning. A small group is sticking their heads together and having a focused talk. Nine o’clock. Doors open and more people stream into the office. Now it is crowded. Business suits, black dresses, different colours, curious eyes and a note of tension [...]
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What are StoryPoints?
March 4th, 2010 · No Comments · Agile Planning, Methods, Scrum · Edit
There is an interesting but confusing thread on one of the email groups [1] about “What is a Storypoint?” A lot of interesting ideas have been condensed by one of the writers.
I believe this question needs to be answered by the way any other metrics is defined. It is a definition.Any group of people can [...]
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Scrum and Knowledgemanagement
March 3rd, 2010 · No Comments · Scrum · Edit
Nonaka and Takeuchi have found the name Scrum more or less. They use in the well-known paper: The New New Product Development, Rugby as a metaphor, to describe product development.
Scrum is, at a closer look, a form of knowledge management. Why? Because the existing knowledge is claimed by the meetings and the demanded artifact transparency.
Scrum [...]
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Job Offer | Head of Consulting
March 2nd, 2010 · No Comments · Jobs, Scrum · Edit
Our business grows. We are a well established consulting company in the Scrum world. Our customers are from Germany, Austria, Switzerland and other countries in Europe. Boris Gloger, our founder, is a well known expert in the Scrum community.
We expand our business and so we need a Head of Consulting for our Professional Service [...]
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Where is the Certified KANBAN Master?
February 24th, 2010 · No Comments · Scrum · Edit
I do not doubt that KANBAN boards make sense in certain environments, I do not doubt that there is merit in the basic ideas. But I start to believe that we do now need a person who tells us where to go to become a Certified KANBAN Master.
Obviously there is a need. A new market [...]
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Scrum Tools | IceScrum | Review
February 23rd, 2010 · No Comments · Scrum · Edit
IceScrum is an agile management tool created by french students. IceScrum is a WebApplication that runs under a Tomcat server using a MYSql Database with GPL License. The tool is focused on Scrum only and brings basic functionalities to manage Scrum teams but with an original user interface.
Getting Started
The first you need to do is [...]
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HotNews: CollabNet buys Danube. Scrumworks has a new owner
February 22nd, 2010 · No Comments · Scrum · Edit
CollabNet buys Scrum-specialist Danube
CollabNet, provider of solutions for Agile Application Lifecycle Management (Agile ALM), has taken over Danube Technologies Inc., a world wide leading company for Scrum project management solutions. [1]
Is an era about to end? Or was it a skillful move by Victor and his brother to increase market presence of ScrumWorks? ScrumWorks is [...]
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Free Place for a Student! Vienna! Team Development Training!
February 22nd, 2010 · No Comments · Scrum · Edit
I offer another free place for a student at the team development training on 4 and 5 March with Dieter Rösner in Vienna. More infos about the training further down the blog and here: http://www.borisgloger.com/trainings4you/professional-scrummaster
If you are interested, please send and APPLOCATION, why you want to have this place to (trainings AT borisgloger DOT com)
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Developer for company in Frankfurt wanted
February 22nd, 2010 · No Comments · Scrum · Edit
We are looking for a software developer with knowledges in Java and C++ for a customer in the area of Frankfurt for a fixed position. You should be able to develop independently, be proficient in the usual frameworks and enjoy to communicate openly with a Scrum Team.
The lingua franca of our company is English. The [...]
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Scrumlies | The ScrumMaster
February 22nd, 2010 · No Comments · Manager, Roles, Scrum, ScrumMaster, Team · Edit
In our last story the Manager insisted in using existing resources – understandable from an economical point of view. But our Team found out that the blood could not be used any more. So it’s the ScrumMasters job to find a way to remove the impediment. And according to the 24h rule this should [...]
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Scrum | The Team on the Customer
February 20th, 2010 · No Comments · Roles, Scrum, Team · Edit
Have you ever worked with people like this Producer? They have no sense of art, it is incredible. Customers are important, agreed but ….
We are happy that Penelope has to deal with the Customer, and we only see them in the reviews and in the Sprint Planning meetings. Customers always change their desires. Today [...]
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Kicking Scrumbut
February 19th, 2010 · No Comments · Scrum, Scrum Basics, Scrum as Business · Edit
Last week I shared a few ideas about the problem of Scrumbut. Now let’s have a look at possible solutions. Some ways of “Kicking Scrumbut” can be found in the the presentation slides of the speech Rowan Bunning [1] gave at last year’s Scrum Gathering in Munich. You will find some thought provoking questions [...]
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A Participant | Certified ScrumMaster Training
February 18th, 2010 · No Comments · After a training, Scrum, Scrum Meetings, Scrum Training · Edit
Because of attending your SCRUM Master Training, I have been able to use SCRUM better in the customer project, which I’m working on as SCRUM Master, the very next working day.
Among other things the focus is now clearly much more aimed at the coordination of the team and the transmission of the outline of the [...]
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Management in Scrum Organizations
February 18th, 2010 · No Comments · Insights, Manager, Scrum, Scrum and Management, Scrum as Business · Edit
“We do not need Managers!”, was the first idea of most agile people in the beginning. I found this statement always suspect. I knew that this idea is wrong and therefore I introduced the role “Manager” in my interpretation and my doing of Scrum.
But what does management do? It is very simple: They direct the [...]
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Estimation of Story Points!
February 17th, 2010 · No Comments · Estimation, Scrum · Edit
Mike Cohn has made estimation of Story Points popular. Unfortunately this application, like so many in Scrum, has been misunderstood. Story Points are thought to be measuring units for the amount of functionality. They are not a new measuring unit for input of work.
Input of work is definitely not estimated by Story Points. If it [...]
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Professional ScrumMaster
February 16th, 2010 · No Comments · Professional Scrum, Scrum, Scrum Basics, ScrumMaster · Edit
The moderation training, which has been held with Dieter Rösner in Munich a week ago, was a complete success. The participants are all on their way to become Professional ScrumMasters (certified by bor!sgloger).
What is a Professional ScrumMaster? I always had the idea that a ScrumMaster is appointed by their role to change the situation in [...]
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