9 September 2010
Author:
Marion Eickmann
In pair programming, two developers work together in front of one screen (or two, as long as they both look ...
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 ...
26 August 2010
Author:
Isabel Drost
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.
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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 ...
18 August 2010
Author:
Marion Eickmann
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 ...
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 are looking forward to met you there.
5 August 2010
Author:
Marion Eickmann
Hello Together, I found a date for the next Scrumtisch, and I hope that not too many people are on ...
Hello Together,
I found a date for the next Scrumtisch, and I hope that not too many people are on vacation :-)
Date: 25th August 2010
Time: 18:30 Uhr
Place: La Vecchia Trattoria, Niederbarnimstraße 25, 10247 Berlin
Please let me know who is coming :-)
CU there
Marion
20 July 2010
Author:
Marion Eickmann
Registered Education Provider (SA REP ℠) We are proud to announce, that agile42 is since the 13th of July officially ...
Registered Education Provider (SA REP ℠)
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.
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1 July 2010
Author:
Marion Eickmann
Bent Myllerup talked about creating a High Performing Environment at Scrumtisch.
Hello everybody!
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?
- More support from the team developing
- How to prioritize Bugs vs. User Stories?
- Check-ins more often and smaller chunks
- Tools pre-building or green-checking control
- Distributed builds with fast running tests
- Evaluate rate of ...
18 May 2010
Author:
Marion Eickmann
Scrum: How to create a high performance environment
Hello :-)
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
12 May 2010
Author:
Garbrand van der Molen
At Sipgate the Product Owners made a very nice room with a lot of whiteboards to plan their work.
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 ...
26 April 2010
Author:
Garbrand van der Molen
The Ableton application developers build a LEGO city using Scrum as part of the Scrum training.
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 ...
21 April 2010
Author:
Marion Eickmann
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.
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Team Estimation Game
- 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 ...
