31 May 2011
marion
Agilo for Scrum based on trac will become Agilo for trac.
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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Hello Everybody,
Agilo Software developed a new and special Scrum Tool. This tool addresses the needs of each scrum role, facilitates the ceremonies and guides the user throught the scrum process in a complete new and extraordinary way. Therefor we decided to call this new generation of Scrum Tool:
Agilo for Scrum
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The one of you who are already customers and use Agilo since a while know, that we based the first generation of Agilo on trac.
Therefor we call it from now on:
Agilo for trac
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Agilo Software will distribute both Tools and support them as usuall ...
31 May 2011
OlafLewitz
We honour Jens Hoffmann as Awesome Coach of the Week 22, 2011!
Jens Hoffmann is an “integrative thinker, complexity wrangler, service designer, project team whisperer and team coach.”
(taken from his Twitter profile)
I first met him in 2009 at a boring conference where he facilitated a get-to-know session with 100 people—using LEGO®!
15 Years of Experience in Scrum
We started to talk in the break, continued in the next break (my talk about PRINCE2™ and Scrum was in between so I had to interrupt) and then through the rest of the day... Did I mention it was a boring conference?
Jens is the coach with the longest experience of using ...
25 May 2011
marion
Virtual Tour of an Embedded Agile Team
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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Scrumtisch Berlin
Hello together :-)
The Scrumtisch Berlin proudly presents Nancy Van Schooenderwoert
Topic of the Scrumtisch
Virtual Tour of an Embedded Agile Team
Embedded systems development holds challenges that include software tightly coupled to evolving hardware, an end customer who usually cannot interact with you, and a long period of infrastructure building before any business-value features are built. These challenges have convinced many embedded developers that Agile is not for them. This presentation takes you on a virtual tour of an actual Agile team developing software and firmware for a safety-critical embedded system. We follow their first iteration. We’ll look at ...
23 May 2011
OlafLewitz
We honour Liz Keogh as Awesome Coach of the Week 21, 2011!
Liz Keogh is a passionate lean and agile coach and trainer and one of the most prominent UK members of the agile and lean community. She's become famous for her work on BDD, which in my opinion is driven by her amazing language skills: Liz is a wordsmith in the true sense of the word...
Words
I first met Liz at the 2009 ScrumGathering in Munich. She was teaching a group of geeks how to write Haiku. I had not done this before and it was great fun; as well as a good way to think about how we ...
19 May 2011
OlafLewitz
Why does your project need a product backlog? Or, does it actually need one, and why? A discussion on Twitter led me to these ponderings... As always, I'm very interested in your thoughts!
Olaf Lewitz
agile42 Coach.
Idea Farmer and Linchpin.
My motto is that of NannyMcPhee: "When you need me, but do not want me, I must stay. When you want me, but no longer need me, then I have to go."
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backlog,
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Is A Backlog Waste? Yes. A backlog is inventory and inventory is waste. Simple question.
Does that Help?
No. Depending on your system, some amount of waste will be necessary to be able to keep the flow. Where would you pull stories from if there is no backlog? Directly out of the product owner's mind?
Context
If you need a backlog and how much of it depends mainly on two factors:
- the experience of your team and the product's stakeholders (including the level of trust between them), a.k.a. the maturity of your system, and
- the context ...
17 May 2011
OlafLewitz
We honour Ken Power as Awesome Coach of the Week 20, 2011!
Ken Power is a passionate agile coach from Ireland. We worked together in the ideation phase of the ALE network, played games at Play4Agile and met at the AgileCoachCamp Norway and two XP conferences.
Active Listening
This is Ken, with emphasis on the intensity of his eyes. Even in this picture where you see him intentionally diverting your attention from them his eyes still dominate the image.
I first met Ken in a world cafe about agile coaching at the XP2010 conference in Trondheim, Norway, and he impressed me with his listening skills. I hadn't heard of Active Listening ...
12 May 2011
marion
One marshmallow, 20 pieces of spaghetti, a bit of string and some tape. How can children learn agile leadership and life skills with those items you ask? Welcome to the Marshmallow Challenge!
(Upper Lynn Elementary, North Vancouver, May 11, 2011) The challenge was on today for Mrs Horner’s Grade 3 class to learn a few life lessons and have fun while doing it! The students were asked to build the tallest, freestanding structure with a marshmallow on the top made only using spaghetti, string and tape. Who would have thought a marshmallow weighed so much? And so the learning begins.
Active parents Dave Sharrock, agile42 Coach and Doug Jaremchuk who consult in Lean and Agile methods felt that the Marshmallow Challenge was not only beneficial for corporate executives, but also a ...
11 May 2011
ralfkruse81
In many cases checklists help; but other people feel patronized by too detailed checklists. People stop thinking about what is the intent behind them and ask “why does it make sense to do it in this way?”
If people have to find their own actions based on the expectations and requirements, they really own their solution. Checklists they create are seen as a tool that helps them to do their work instead of being patronized by others. If people have a clear understanding of the expectations and are empowered to take the right actions, they can adjust their solutions to the current situation and needs more easily.
For instance, if a team has to use a strict template for a certain type of document, to provide information for maintenance for support, they will always deliver it in ...
10 May 2011
marion
Follow up to the last Scrumtisch
Hello everybody,
the last Scrumtisch was about TDD and ATDD. I got a lot of Feedback, that it would be nice to have a practical session on that topic too.
Andrea Tomasini and Richard Lawrence agreed on having such a session next week:
Date: 19. May 2011
Time: 17:00 - 19:00
Place. Klosterstr. 71, Berlin (at Hypoport)
NOTE: Please bring your laptop!!
Please let me know if you are coming
Cheers
Marion
6 May 2011
OlafLewitz
We honour Marc Bless as Awesome Coach of the Week 18, 2011!
Marc Bless is a passionate agile coach and one of the most prominent German members of the agile community. We met at and organised conferences and coach camps together, created games and funny business.
Agile Principles Analyser
Marc has been coaching teams in a company developing medical devices for a few years now. With this experience, he analysed the 12 principles of the Agile Manifesto and published his findings in a series of 12 blog posts, starting here. We find this work concise and intriguing.
This is how Marc reacts if you do not understand the agile principles:
Agile in ...
5 May 2011
ralfkruse81
There are some questions asked by Product Owners and they have a simple answer: “Ask the team!”
There are some questions asked by Product Owners
... and they have a simple answer: “Ask the team!”
Story good enough for the Sprint
When a PO ask: “Is the user story good enough, that it can be taken in the sprint?” or “Does this user story have enough acceptance criteria?”
The answer to this question is “Ask the team!”
The team will work with the story, so the story has to be good enough that the team can work with it.
For a story to be good enough for the sprint it has to be small (6 to 10 stories ...
2 May 2011
OlafLewitz
We honour Mike Sutton as Awesome Coach of the Week 17, 2011!
Mike Sutton is currently working with us on a project, which gave us a first-hand impression of his awesomeness... I first met Mike at the ScrumGathering in Munich in 2009, where we discovered our mutual interest in the topic of diversity. That lead to a joint session at XP2010 in Trondheim, a CoachCamp we both participated in and lots of nights on Skype...
Open Space
Mike is an experienced Open Space facilitator. His commitment to the community is such that he even offers free Open Space facilitation to community events. I experienced his awesome facilitation skills at the AgileCoachCamp Germany ...
