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Agilo Pro 1.0 Beta released

Scrum Planning Board now with the new Agilo Pro Beta available!

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30 June 2009
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Agilo
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Agilo, Planning Board, Scrum

Hi everybody!

A whiteboard and the beloved stickers are an important part of every Daily Standup Meetings or Daily Scrum. But what if the teams are distributed or if the tickets as a part of the project documentation shall be saved?

The new Agilo PRO is addressing these and other issues with the new Scrum Planning Board:

  • Visual planning by drag and drop tickets
  • User stories will be stored as a part of the project documentation
  • History of all tickets (requirements, user stories, tasks, etc.)
  • Intuitive and easy planning for distributed teams
  • Printable tickets
  • Traceable links between tickets and code ...

The optimal UnitTesting environment

I want to tell you about the joys of automation today - the joy of having your test run just whenever you save one of your files.

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30 June 2009
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General, Scrum
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tdd, unittesting

I want to tell you about the joys of automation today - the joy of having your test run just whenever you save one of your files.

Because this is the thing - you cannot deliver high quality software with your Scrum implementation every month without having great engineering practices. If you don't have them, you can still deliver something every month and know exactly where you stand - but the quality will not be there. This is where practices like Unit Testing and Test Driven Development come in, as they are some of the best ways to improve quality that we ...


Agilo for Scrum PRO 1.0 now with Scrum Planning Board

Berlin, Germany. - May 11, 2009 - agile42 GmbH, an experienced leader in Agile software development services, training, and consulting, today announced the release of the Scrum Software Agilo PRO 1.0 (Beta). The new Scrum tool is based on the well known Open Source Software Agilo for Scrum and provides now an intuitive Drag and Drop Planning Board to support the Scrum Planning even better.

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28 June 2009
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Press

Agilo Pro Scrum Planning Board

A whiteboard and the beloved stickers are an important part of every Daily Standup Meetings or Daily Scrum. But what if the teams are distributed or if the tickets as a part of the project documentation shall be saved?

Agilo PRO is addressing these and other issues with the new Scrum Planning Board:

  • Visual planning by drag and drop tickets
  • User stories will be stored as a part of the project documentation
  • History of all tickets (requirements, user stories, tasks, etc.)
  • Intuitive and easy planning for distributed teams
  • Printable tickets
  • Traceable links between tickets and ...

Agilo for Scrum PRO 1.0 jetzt mit Scrum Planning Board

Berlin, 28. Juni 2009. Die Berliner agile42 GmbH, erfolgreiches Consulting, Training und Coaching Unternehmen für agile Methoden wie Scrum, bringt die neue PRO Version von Agilo auf den Markt. Die zunächst als Beta freigegebene Scrum Software basiert auf der beliebten Open Source Lösung Agilo und stellt nun auch ein intuitives Drag and Drop Planning Board zur besseren Unterstützung der Scrum Planung bereit.

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28 June 2009
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Press

Agilo Pro Scrum Planning Board

Ein Whiteboard und die beliebten kleinen Klebezettel sind bei Daily Standup Meetings, auch Daily Scrum genannt, nicht wegzudenken. Aber was tun, wenn die Team verteilt arbeiten oder wenn die Tickets, als Teil der Projektdokumentation gespeichert werden sollen? Agilo PRO stellt ein Scrum Planning Board zur Verfügung, welches solche und andere Fragen adressiert:

  • Visuelle Planung durch Drag and Drop von Tickets
  • User Stories werde als Teil der Projektdokumentation gespeichert
  • Historie über alle Tickets (Anforderungen, User Stories, Tasks etc.)
  • Intuitive und einfach Planung auch bei verteilten Teams
  • Druckbare Tickets
  • Nachvollziehbare Verbindungen zwischen Tickets und Code

Agilo Pro Planning Board

Für die ...


Review Scrumtisch 16th June

20 People, 4 languages and a great presentation :-)

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17 June 2009
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Scrumtisch Berlin
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Scrumtisch
















Hi everybody,
I think you agree, that the presentation of Philippe Kuchten yesterday was great, very informative and interesting. Here are some pictures and the link to the presentation from the Scrumtisch yesterday.
20 Attendees at the Scrumtisch Berlin in June
Philippe Kruchten was talking about: What color has your backlog
Interesting discussions and great food and drinks
Philippe held the presentation at the Orlando Scrum Gathering too. Here you can download the presentation

Comments are very welcome



Marion


Scrum Hit list – 10 good reasons for Scrum

This Scrum Hit List is a part of an article which has been published in the German IX Magazin 06/09

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16 June 2009
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Scrum
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Scrum, Scrum Anti Pattern, Scrum Implementation

Scrum Hit list – 10 good reasons for Scrum

There are many good reasons to work with Scrum. The 10 most important are listed here.

  1. Competitiveness
    The requirements of the market change invariably faster and only the ones who are flexible and contemporary can react Time to Market and stay competitive and create themselves a competitive advantage.

  2. Develop what is needed
    Scrum allows the incremental development of features. In time the customer receives the first working versions, sees the progress and can if necessary add some new ideas.

  3. Confidence through transparency
    Transparency plays a great deal on various levels of Scrum ...


Scrum - Challenges, Risks & Anti-Patterns

Finally! After so many years working on projects that simply didn’t work, today there is a methodology for delivering projects on time and budget: Scrum. Many companies have made the change and proven that it works. But is it easy? No, Scrum is not easy. To follow the principles of Scrum requires courage, complete transparency and the confidence to make mistakes. Only people who openly and confidently handle the issues that arise in order learn from them will be successful in using Scrum to develop software and systems in the long run.

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16 June 2009
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Press

Scrum - Challenges, Risks & Anti-Patterns

published in the German IX Magazin, Heise 2009

Finally! After so many years working on projects that simply didn’t work, today there is a methodology for delivering projects on time and budget: Scrum. Many companies have made the change and proven that it works. But is it easy? No, Scrum is not easy. To follow the principles of Scrum requires courage, complete transparency and the confidence to make mistakes. Only people who openly and confidently handle the issues that arise in order learn from them will be successful in using Scrum to develop software and ...


Scrum Getting Started (inkl. Scrum Lego City Planspiel)

1. Scrum - Theorie und Praxis und 2. Das Scrum Lego City Game

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15 June 2009
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Scrum, Scrum Getting Started, Scrum Lego City Game

Aufgrund vieler Nachfragen, haben wir nun 3 öffentliche Termin für das Scrum Training inkl. Scrum Lego City Game angesetzt.

Das Scrum Lego City Game vermittelt in anschaulicher Weise warum und wie Scrum funktioniert, und der Scrum-Getting Started Kurs verbindet die nötige Theorie über Scrum mit dem Scrum Lego City Game. Während des Games werden vollständige Sprints mit Scrum Planning und Scrum Review Meetings und ein Release Sprint simuliert.

Für alle, die Scrum erleben und nicht nur erlernen wollen, ist dieser Kurs zu empfehlen:

Termine:

  • Berlin 03. - 04. August 2009
  • München 11. - 12. August 2009
  • Stuttgart 15. - 16. September 2009

Mehr ...


Scrum training results of Ericsson are now online

Scrum training results of Ericsson are now online In the last few month we made several Scrum trainings at Ericsson Nikola Tesla in Croatia. They provide us with the result of a questioning regarding the trainings and have been so kind to allow us to...

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11 June 2009
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Tags
agile, scrum, scrum training

In the last few month we made several Scrum trainings at Ericsson Nikola Tesla in Croatia. They provide us with the result of a questioning regarding the trainings and have been so kind to allow us to publish these results on our website.

Here you can find the results


Geregelte Selbstbestimmung - Ein Plädoyer für agile Softwareentwickung mit Scrum

Geregelte Selbstbestimmung - Ein Plädoyer für agile Softwareentwickung mit Scrum Im neuen IX Magazin (Heft 6/2009) ist der erste, von vermutlich 4, Artikel zum Thema Scrum erschienen.

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4 June 2009
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agile, Agilo, IX Magazin, Scrum

"Auch wenn Scrum mittlerweile auf eine fast 15jährige Erfolgsgeschichte zurückblicken kann, betrachten viele Entwickler diese agile Projektmanagementmethode immer noch mit großer Skepsis. Eine Protagonistin dieses Verfahrens argumentiert vehement dafür, Scrum auf jeden Fall einmal auszuprobieren."

So viel zum Aufmacher des Artikels. Im Moment gibts den Artikel nur als Print Ausgabe.


Agilo 0.7.4 Completes inline Help and increases compatibility with IE

Hi all, the Agilo Development Team released today a new update to the 0.7 version of Agilo, there are some improvements in performance and some bug fixes too. The focus of the release was to cut off...

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2 June 2009
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Agilo, Scrum
Tags
agilo, appliance, installation guide, scrum, tool

Hi all, the Agilo Development Team released today a new update to the 0.7 version of Agilo, there are some improvements in performance and some bug fixes too. The focus of the release was to cut off some bugs related to IE compatibility as well as completing the help system, for which we would appreciate your comments, feedback and fixes as well.

Following a list containing the major improvements of this release, that will be the last 0.7. The new Agilo 0.8 is due to come this early summer, and will have some surprises... now the list ...


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