30 September 2009
garbrand
Vote for Agilo: Agile Software Development is running a poll to find out what is the most popular or recommended agile project management software.
Agile Software Development is running a poll to find out what is the most popular or recommended agile project management software.
So if you like Agilo please head on over to the poll and vote for Agilo. We would be really curious to see what the agile project management landscape looks like, so the more votes the better.
So, along with the Agile Software Development blog we are calling all agile bloggers and providers of agile tools to please promote this poll. It would be great to get a comprehensive poll of the marketplace and see what tools people recommend ...
29 September 2009
marion
Scrumtisch with Mary Poppendieck
Hi everybody,
as you know, the Scrumtisch with Mary Poppendieck is happening on the 11th of October 2009 at 19:00 o'clock.
Mary will talk about:
Beyond the Low Hanging Fruit: What Lean brings to Agile.
If you are interested in joining, please send an email to: scrumtisch@agile42.com
25 September 2009
garbrand
Today a new release of Agilo and Agilo Pro, featuring inline editing and breakdown tools in the backlog.
This release had us focussed on improving our testing architecture to enable us to deliver new features faster without sacrificing quality.
Today a new release of Agilo and Agilo Pro.
This release had us focussed on improving our testing architecture to enable us to deliver new features faster without sacrificing quality. Our functional tests are now done with Windmill, while our javascript code is under test by Qunit.
Thanks to these fantastic testing frameworks we were able to grab a hold on a good chunk of user reported bugs - please keep them coming! We have a wide array of systems and environments for testing, but we'll never be able to recreate every possible system.
It wasn't all bug fixes ...
25 September 2009
marion
The keynote of Andrea Tomasini at the House of Open Scrum in Munich will highlight the differences between agile methods and traditional development approaches.
On the 7th of October 2009 the House of Open Scrum opens the door for everybody interested in Scrum, agile and lean ways of working.
Andrea Tomasini will talk in his keynote about: Why Scrum Works
There are fundamental difference of all agile methodes, in comparison with the traditional software development approaches.
Following the "style" of the agile manifesto we can bring them to the point:
- Fact based development over requirements assumptions
- Market driven features over upfront specifications
- Flexible development over predefined plans
- Agile leadership instead of command and control
More information you can find here: http://www.scrum-events.de ...
22 September 2009
marion
Scrumtisch
Date: 24. September 2009
Time: 18:30 Uhr
Place: La Vecchia Trattoria, Niederbarnimstraße 25, 10247 Berlin
The location is near the U-Bahn Samariterstrasse.
Please let me know if you come: scrumtisch@agile42.com :-)
Marion
22 September 2009
marion
Main topics regarding the planned CSM Exam
Marion Eickmann
I am one of the founders of agile42. Even though I am not an engineer I
consider myself almost a "Techi" as I have been working in the field of
software development for 10 years now.
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CSM Exam Launch Plan of the Scrum Alliance:
- We will launch on October 1 with 3 variations of the exam.
- Each of the 3 variations will have 60 questions out of the total pool of 90 questions. They will be structured to make sure that each area of the Scrum Guide is equally represented in each exam.
- For a period of time (the length of which is yet undetermined, but will be announced in the future), all those who take the test will be given a “passing” grade.
- Over time, analysis of exam results will help the Alliance determine the ...
22 September 2009
marion
Official statement from the Scrum Alliance about the resignation of Ken Schwaber
Here it is, an official statement of the Scrum Alliance regarding the fact that Ken Schwaber resigned on September 15th 2009 as as President and Chair of the Board of Directors of the Scrum Alliance.
The good news is, that Ken wants to remain active in the Scrum Community.
The complete statement you can read here: http://www.scrumalliance.org/news_items/75
22 September 2009
JPBerchez
Scrum Getting Started in cooperation with agile42, HLMC and the iX Magazine.
agile42, HLMC and the well known iX Magazine from Heise organized together a Scrum getting started Training. in Berlin, Munich and Stuttgart. For all participants it was a great experience to get all this informations regarding Scrum. Even if the title of the Training was "Scrum getting Started" it was much more. A lot of information how Scrum works in real life and great practical examples and learning games. And at the end of all we had big fun :-)
If you like to know more about those or other Scrum Events please visit: http://www.scrum-events.de/
stay tuned JP
21 September 2009
marion
Ken Schwaber is not any longer the President of the Scrum Alliance.
Ken Schwaber is not any longer the President of the Scrum Alliance. He stepped down as President and Chairman of the Board of the Scrum Alliance on Tuesday, September 15, 2009.
At the same time also Managing Director Jim Cundiff stepped down.
The new President of the Scrum Alliance will be Tom Mellor.
More information will come soon.
14 September 2009
garbrand
In Groningen we did a Scrum Master & Team Training with Goldmund, Wyldebeast und Wunderliebe and Four Digits, as always culminating in a wonderful Lego city!
In Groningen we did a Scrum Master & Team Training with Goldmund, Wyldebeast und Wunderliebe and Four Digits, as always culminating in a wonderful Lego city!
To have the people at the training really experience what it is like to work as a self organized team we end our training with a Lego city exercise. In this exercise, the people are to organize themselves to build as much as possible from the backlog in a number of 5 minute sprints, coupled with a retrospective and a planning session.
Here we see engineers at work. The backlog is broken up into Requirements ...
3 September 2009
marion
Beyond the Low Hanging Fruit: What Lean brings to Agile.
In October we organize a Scrum User Group Meeting with Mary Poppendieck. She will talk about Lean Management and we will have interesting discussions and will exchange experiences.
TITEL: Beyond the Low Hanging Fruit: What Lean brings to Agile.
The Scrumtisch will take place on Sunday 11th October at 18:00 o clock.
I am really happy that Mary made it possible to join the Scrumtisch in Berlin. If you are interested in joining the Meeting, please send an email to scrumtisch@agile42.com.
1 September 2009
marion
Vortrag über Agilo for Scrum & Trac
Die gearconf 09 will an zwei Tagen einen Überblick über Tools und Methoden aus dem Bereich"Software-Entwicklung im Team" geben. Sie soll u.a. Antworten geben zu den folgenden Fragen:
Wie kann ich wiederkehrende Arbeitsabläufe weitestgehend automatisieren?
Wie kann ich Arbeitsabläufe beschleunigen und Fehlerquellen vermeiden gestalten?
Wie kann ich die Kommunikation im Team verbessern?
Wie kann ich die Qualität meiner Software spürbar steigern?
Wie behalte ich den Überblick über den augenblicklichen Entwicklungsstand?
Welche Tools sind für meine Anforderungen und Umgebungen am besten geeignet?
Was bringen mir kommerzielle Tools, was freie Tools nicht bieten können?
Wie greifen die einzelnen Bausteine meiner ...
Garbrand van der Molen
