Today the last Scrumtisch Berlin in 2010 took place in Friedrichshain. Thanks to Marion Eickmann and Andrea ...
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.
Though no presentation had been scheduled ahead of time the Scrumtisch was well attended by over twenty people, mostly from companies based in Berlin who are either using Scrum already or are currently in a transition phase.
We went straight into collecting and voting on topics for discussion. In total we ended up having eight potential topics listed, including but not limited to
* Scrum and non-feature teams, does it work - and ...
Visti agile42 at the ISACA CALGARY 2010 FALL CONFERENCE
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.
The ISACA Calgary Chapter is presenting a professional development opportunity on November 25, 2010. This conference will provide you with relevant learning, give you an opportunity to network with others in the professional community and also provide 9 CPE hours - all in one day.
Dave Sharrock, VP Professional Services will talk about:
Agile meets Audit: Meeting Information Security Requirements with Agile Teams
The launch of agile42 in North America follows nearly five years of successfully consulting companies on process improvement, specifically on adopting agile approaches to software development, and training and coaching teams on agile methods like Scrum. During that time, agile42 has developed a tailored approach to agile change, and now North American companies in Canada and the United States can benefit from this proven and highly successful approach to consulting, training and coaching people to become agile by the combination of management involvement, knowledge transfer, on-the-job coaching and hands-on tool support.
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.
(Vancouver, Canada, November 1, 2010) As experts in helping organizations adapt to agile and lean methods, agile42 advises, trains and coaches people to become agile, helping companies to successfully transition to an agile working environment. Serving in the new position of VP Professional Services, Dr. Dave Sharrock is responsible for leading the management and development of agile42‘s North American customers, improving time-to-market, quality and employee satisfaction by applying agile principles.
“I’m very excited to be joining agile42 to implement their highly successful approach to agile change in Canada and the United States. Coming from an executive leadership background ...
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.
Hello again,
we were very happy to welcome again roughly 35 participants from local industry and academia at
Scrumtish Berlin 5/10/2010
moderated by
Andrea Tomasini, CSC
Thomas Bradford
Thom Bradford is a software developer, living and working in Berlin for the world-famous Agile42.
Many Scrum teams face a great challenge even to comply with the basic premise of Scrum: They fail to deliver a potentially shippable product after every sprint. In our 3-day Agile Engineering Course we teach developers modern engineering practices which complement the Scrum Process.
Often we get the question what do we do in our trainings? Especially how we can help companies which "do" Scrum already. So we decided to create a loose series of blog posts presenting some insights from our trainings :-)
Many Scrum teams face a great challenge even to comply with the basic premise of Scrum: They fail to deliver a potentially shippable product after every sprint. Manual testing takes a long time, bugs fixed once reappear in the next version. During the demo meeting the Product Owner rejects a lot of stories because the team missed too many small issues ...
Lyssa Adkins followed my invitation to do her Training **Coaching Agile Teams** in Berlin. She offers a special price for our Scrumtisch. But also other guys can attend :-)
**Date:** 17./18. Februa...
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.
Lyssa Adkins followed my invitation to do her Training Coaching Agile Teams in Berlin. She offers a special price for our Scrumtisch. But also other guys can attend :-)
Date: 17./18. February Place: Berlin, tbd
Prices & Registration
Sorry, we are sold out.
About the Training
Coaching Agile Teams is a training experience that covers both the being and the doing of agile coaching:
Outcome
You’ll walk away from each of the two courses with your personal coaching improvement backlog – a tangible plan you can use to thoughtfully improve your coaching when you’re back in your daily circumstances. We ...
Andrea Tomasini, CSC, will talk in Bologna to everybody who is interested in Scrum, agile, lean. This event is organized ...
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.
Andrea Tomasini, CSC, will talk in Bologna to everybody who is interested in Scrum, agile, lean.
This event is organized by Roberto Bettazzoni, partner from agile42 in Italy.
Date: 23. September 2010
Time: 19:00
Place: Bologna Council House
Please send an email to: scrumtisch@agile42.com, if you are interested in joining.
During the agile15 (minutes) we talk, listen and discuss about interesting agile topics. Today it's all about The Definition of ...
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.
At the peak of sprint planning the team pledges "We commit to achieve these stories, no matter what it takes". It's a deal with the Product Owner (PO) and the team.
So why do teams commit?
The commitment is only valuable if the team thinks it can actually achieve it. Since the team is invited to pull the right amount of stories from the backlog, the PO trusts that the team makes reliable commitments based on their current capabilities and expected flow. This way the self-organizing team is challenged to constantly improve estimates, deliver value, as well as contribute ...
Hello together :-) The next Scrumtisch in Berlin is about to happen ;-) Date: 5th October 2010 Time: 18:30 ...
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.
In pair programming, two developers work together in front of one screen (or two, as long as they both look ...
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.
In pair programming, two developers work together in front of one screen (or two, as long as they both look at the same screen) to get a task done faster and with higher quality. Just like a driving a car, there are two roles in
the pair: The driver, who has the steering wheel, aka the keyboard in her hand, and the navigator who knows where to go and which crossroads lie ahead. As you want to switch these roles every now and then, it is very helpful to have two keyboards and mice attached to the computer you are ...
This evening the Berlin Scrumtisch took place in Friedrichshain. More than thirty participants followed Marion's invitation for discussions ...
Isabel Drost
I am committer at Apache Mahout. In my free time I am working on Apache Mahout, organising the Apache Hadoop Get Together in Berlin and speaking at various conferences explaining the ins and outs of Hadoop in general and Mahout in particular.
This evening the Berlin Scrumtisch took place in Friedrichshain. More than thirty participants followed Marion's invitation for discussions on Scrum, wine and pizza at Vecchia Trattoria.
As there were several new participants, Felix started out with a very brief summary of the very core concepts of Scrum itself: Most important to know is the basic assumption of Scrum, that is planning ahead of time in a very detailed way is impossible. Defining goals and letting those who do the actual work take the decisions on how to reach that goal is way easier and more promising. The whole process ...
Andrea Tomasini (CSC/CST) will talk at the next Scrumtisch in Bremen Andrea will talk about "Scrum Orgins" at 20 o'clock on the 25th August. This time the Scrumtisch Bremen will take place in: Bandoneon Gertrudenstr. 37 28203 Bremen The Scrumtisch in Bremen is every last Wednesday in the Month. We ...
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.
Hello Together, I found a date for the next Scrumtisch, and I hope that not too many people are on ...
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.
Registered Education Provider (SA REP ℠) We are proud to announce, that agile42 is since the 13th of July officially ...
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.
We are proud to announce, that agile42 is since the 13th of July officially a Scrum Alliance REP℠ (Registered Education Provider)
The Scrum Alliance has developed this program for organizations that offer certification and non-certification courses pertinent to agile and Scrum practitioners.
The Certified Scrum Developer program (CSD) is a curriculum of courses that offer the skills developers and other technical-minded team members need to succeed. All courses in the CSD curriculum are taught by Scrum Alliance Registered Education Providers.
Bent Myllerup talked about creating a High Performing Environment at Scrumtisch.
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.
Neither football and nor the heat could not keep us away from the Scrumtisch on Tuesday. More than 20 people exchanged experience and knowledge about the following topics and have been listening to Bent who was talking about how to create a real team.
Topics of the open discussion:
What to do if Continuous Integration/Maintenance Bug fixing eats up more than 50% of capacity?
Scrum: How to create a high performance environment
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.
At the Scrumtisch in June, Bent Myllerup will talk about:
"How to create a high performance environment"
This presentation is covering systemic and appreciative approaches to foster team identity towards the high performing stage. He has done it at several occasions. The last time was for the Atlanta Scrum User Group last August
I am looking forward to see you there. Please let me know as usual :-)
Marion
Date: 29th June 2010 Time: 18:30 Uhr Place: La Vecchia Trattoria, Niederbarnimstraße 25, 10247 Berlin
At Sipgate the Product Owners made a very nice room with a lot of whiteboards to plan their work.
Garbrand van der Molen
Garbrand van der Molen is managing director of the agile42 Benelux office. His specialities include Product Ownership, User Experience, Marketing and Design.
The Product Owners at Sipgate have organized themselves around a large set of whiteboards on which they track and plan the work for their Releases. This is a great way of getting immediate visual understanding about how you can realize your Release Goal.
On the first whiteboard they put the Requirements they'll be working on in this release, decomposing them in Minimal Marketable Features (sets of User Stories) which they can then plan in each Sprint. Each Sprint has it's own whiteboard again, so it's very easy for them to move stories from one sprint to the ...
The Ableton application developers build a LEGO city using Scrum as part of the Scrum training.
Garbrand van der Molen
Garbrand van der Molen is managing director of the agile42 Benelux office. His specialities include Product Ownership, User Experience, Marketing and Design.
In a second round of training the developers at Ableton have constructed another LEGO city using Scrum. Using 5 minute bursts of planning, building and retrospecting, the teams transform the high-level wishes of the Product Owner into structures.
Instead of writing detailed, low-level specifications, the Product Owner uses User Stories: descriptions of functionality from the end-users perspective. LEGO stories look like this:
As a citizen, I would like a two-story house so I can have a large house on a small plot of land.
The teams would estimate and commit to these kind of stories, then iteratively transform them into ...
Team Estimation Game Start with a stack of ranked story cards. The team will arrange the cards so the ...
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.
Start with a stack of ranked story cards. The team will arrange the cards so the smallest size items are on the left and the largest items on the right. Items with the same or similar size should grouped together in vertical columns (the same place in the left-right direction).
Place the first (highest ranked) story card in the middle of the table (or in the middle of the board or wall)
Team members take turns estimating in a round-robin manner. On each turn, the player has two options, as shown below. With both options, the player ...
Good day everybody, I hope you are all fine and nobody is still stucked somewhere because of the vulcano (I ...
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.
I hope you are all fine and nobody is still stucked somewhere because of the vulcano (I can spell the name ;-))
Please find below date and time of the next Scrumtisch.
One Topic
I had a nice talk with Martin and Friedemann, who are working for Ableton and who are implenting Scrum right now in their teams. They agreed, to give us an overview on how they started, challanges, good and bad experiences and answering questions.
Interesting Scrumtisch in Berlin Friedrichshain. Though no talk was scheduled for this evening the room was packed with guests from various companies and backgrounds interested in participating in discussions on Scrum. We were talking about, Coaching self-organising teams, Management Buy-In and the new Certified Scrum Professional.
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.
As usual we started collecting topics (timeboxed to five minutes). The list was rather short, however it contained several interesting pieces:
(6 votes) Management buy-in
(6+ votes) CSP - Certified Scrum Professional - what changes compared to the practitioner?
(4 votes) Roles of Management in Scrum - how do they change?
(13 votes) Coaching self-organising teams - team buy in.
Coaching self-organising teams - Team buy-in
As prioritised by the participants the first topic discussed was on coaching self organising teams - with a heavy focus on team buy-in. The problem described dealt with transforming water fall teams that are used to receiving their work items ...
Management Buy In & Coaching self-organizing teams.... some of the proposed topics...
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.
Sorry to come back so late with the next Scrumtisch date.
Last time many of you ask for the topic "Management Buy in", and Thoralf pointet me to the topic "Coaching self-organizing teams".
Let's be agile an see what most of you like to talk about.
Here the data:
Date: 30th March 2010 Time: 18:30 Uhr Place: La Vecchia Trattoria, Niederbarnimstraße 25, 10247 Berlin
A special CSM training for the Scrumtisch Member in Berlin, March 22./23.
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.
I am glad to announce, that I could book Bob Sarni, Certified Scrum Coach and Trainer to held a Certified Scrum Master Class (CSM) for the member of the Berlin Scrumtisch.
The CSM Training will be in Friedrichshain, March, 22nd/23rd.
If you like to know more about the special conditions and you want to attend just write to scrumtisch@agile42.com
Alan Atlas was talking about his time @Amazon and how they do or do not Scrum in the S3 project.
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.
At the Berlin Scrumtisch in February 2010, Alan Atlas gave a presentation about his role regarding Scrum at Amazon (starting as early as back in 2004).
This presentation described how scrum was adopted by more than half of the software developers at Amazon. Amazon’s corporate and development cultures played important roles, both positive and negative. With no executive sponsorship, adoption occurred primarily a team at a time. The wide range of success across teams and organizations leads to a number of important lessons learned with regard to enterprise scrum adoption.
The Ableton team builds a LEGO City as part of the Scrum training.
Garbrand van der Molen
Garbrand van der Molen is managing director of the agile42 Benelux office. His specialities include Product Ownership, User Experience, Marketing and Design.
As always we put theory into practice by building a LEGO City at the end of a Scrum training. The attendees are challenged to build a LEGO City from a Product Backlog in a very limited building time, of course using Scrum. This lets the people really feel what it means to self-organize, to sprint and to have a retrospective. Also working against a Product Backlog and with a Product Owner is something that you need to experience.
In a couple of 5 minute sprints, the teams build, refactor and integrate their LEGO creations. Many aspects of Scrum in software ...
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.
Hello Everybody :-)
Late, but better than never I would like to wish you a great 2010. May it be successful, interesting and full of good events for all of you.
Here are the details regarding the next Scrumtisch. As usual, please send me a mail, when you like to attend:
Date: 17. February 2010 (Date has changed from before, see comment) Time: 18:30 Uhr Place: La Vecchia Trattoria, Niederbarnimstraße 25, 10247 Berlin
Marion Eickmann
