Archives February 2010

Scrumtisch February: Scrum at Amazon with Alan Atlas

23 February 2010 marion

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.

On: 23 February 2010
In: Scrumtisch Berlin
Tags: scrum, scrum amazon, scrumtisch

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).

Scrumtisch February 2010 with Alan Atlas

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.

Scrumtisch February 2010 with Alan Atlas

Alan gave examples on:

The value of simply explaining ...

Ableton builds a Lego Abletown

16 February 2010 garbrand

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.

On: 16 February 2010
In: General, Scrum, Training
Tags: lego, scrum, training

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.

Ableton Team