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“Effective User Stories" and “Agile Estimation and Planning Trainings

Martin Kearns official Partner of agile42 is giving 2 classes in September: “Effective User Stories for Agile Requirements” and “Agile Estimation and Planning

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30 July 2009
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Scrum
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Agile Estimation and Planning, Effective User Stories, scrum

There are still some places left in Berlin for the Trainings “Effective User Stories for Agile Requirements” and “Agile Estimation and Planning”.

Date: 4. / 5. September
Place: Berlin

For more information please contact: info@agile42.com


Neuer Scrum Artikel über Product Owner

Balance halten: Im neuen IX Magazin (Heft 8/2009) ist nun der Scrum Artikel zum Thema Product Owner erschienen.

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24 July 2009
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Scrum
Tags
agile, artikel, Product Owner, Scrum, scrum article

"Wer agile Softwareentwicklung betreiben will, trifft früher oder später unweigerlich auf Scrum. Erfolg verspricht dieses Vorgehen allerdings nur dann, wenn man die definierten Rollen mit den richtigen Personen besetzt.

So viel zum Aufmacher des Artikels. Im Moment gibts den Artikel nur als Print Ausgabe: http://www.heise.de/ix/inhalt.shtml


10.000 Thanks from Agilo for Scrum!

Agilo for Scrum has shortly reached the considerable target of 10.000 registered users, establishing Agilo as one of the most used Scrum tools on the market, thank you to all our users!!!

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17 July 2009
In
Agilo, General, Scrum
Tags
agilo, open, scrum, source, tool

Shortly we reached the 10.000 registered users, and to thank all of you, we decided to release a new version today

Thanks to a great community support and a growing number of Open Source committers, Agilo for Scrum reached shortly the considerable target of 10.000 registered users, it is for all of the committers an important confirmation that all of the work done is appreciated and valued :-)

To thank you all for this, we decided to work harder in the last 3 days to release the RC2 version of both Agilo for Scrum, and the Pro features. A ...


Geregelte Selbstbestimmung

Scrum Artikel zum Download. Download the Scrum Article from the IX Magazin 6/2009

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13 July 2009
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Scrum
Tags
Scrum Einführung, Scrum Implementation, Scrum Tool, Scrum Tools

Deutsch

Den im IX Magazin 6/2009 erschienenen Artikel von mir kann man bei www.heise.de bekommen. (Geregelte Selbstbestimmung)[http://www.heise.de/kiosk/archiv/ix/2009/6/110_kiosk]

Die (englische Variante gibts hier)[http://www.agile42.com/cms/articles/2009/6/16/Scrum-risks/]

English

The article published on the IX Magazin 6/2009 by me, it is now available on the Heise website. (Scrum Overview)[http://www.heise.de/kiosk/archiv/ix/2009/6/110_kiosk]

(Here the english version:)[http://www.agile42.com/cms/articles/2009/6/16/Scrum-risks/]


Agilo Pro 1.0 and Agilo 0.8 RC1 released!

Hi all, today we release a newer version of Agilo for Scrum 0.8 (RC1) which is available as Source Code, plus we released Agilo Pro 1.0 (RC1) which offers more features, which will be part of a constant improvement in the upcoming months.

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12 July 2009
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Agilo, General, Scrum
Tags
agilo, open source, scrum, tool

Hi all,
today we release a newer version of Agilo for Scrum 0.8 (RC1) which is available as Source Code, plus we released Agilo Pro 1.0 which offers more features, which will be part of a constant improvement in the upcoming months.

Agilo Pro is meant to better support Professionals who want to have the guarantee that the product will evolve constantly and will server them with the latest updates, and security fixes without having to think about the maintenance and support as well. Agilo Pro is a subscription service which will enrich the Agilo experience, adding new ...


Sprint Planning, Just Enough & Just in Time

How to get a reasonable Sprint commitment without having to spend too much time in breaking down tasks at the Sprint Planning meeting, while being quite sure that you are going to make it

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6 July 2009
In
Agilo, Scrum, Training

Never had the problem that the Sprint Planning Meeting often is at risk of going out of the time-box, and eventually the Development Teams didn't manage to fill up the Sprint Backlog with all the needed tasks?

I want to share with you a way - for sure no rocket science, but "Common Sense" as Ken would say - in which you can have a team committed to the deliverables, without having to struggle with the tasks breakdown, and at the same time having a "good enough" understanding about the commitment given to move forward... interesting? Than read forward :-)

The idea ...


The Optimal UnitTesting environment II

In the [last episode](http://agile42.com/cms/blog/2009/07/1/optimal-unittesting-environment/) I talked about the huge difference it makes to automate the execution of [unit tests](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_testing) on each file save.

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6 July 2009
In
Scrum, Training
Tags
browsers, qunit, unittesting

In the last episode I talked about the huge difference it makes to automate the execution of unit tests on each file save.

This is all great and good - if you have the luxury to work with a language which can be reached from the shell.

Since we work with lots of JavaScript in the development of Agilo for Scrum, we have a problem. Of course there are tools like Narwhal that make it much easier to also run JS from the shell, but its not the same, and also it's very hard to debug javascript in there if ...


Scrumtisch July 2009

Next Scrumtisch in July

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3 July 2009
In
Scrumtisch Berlin
Tags
agile, berlin, scrum, scrum berlin

Here comes the next date for the Scrumtisch. Please NOTE: We start half an hour later at 18:30.

Date: 23rd July 2009
Time: 18:30 (6:30 pm)
Place: Ristorante Di Vino, Grünberger Str. 69, Berlin Friedrichshain

Please let me know if you would like to come.
Have a nice weekend
Marion


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