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Scrumtisch May 2010

Good day everybody, I hope you are all fine and nobody is still stucked somewhere because of the vulcano (I ...

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20 April 2010
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Scrumtisch Berlin
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Good day everybody,

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.

Please let me know -as usual- if you are coming.

All the Best Marion

Date: 6th May 2010
Time: 18:30 ...

Coaching self-organising teams

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.

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31 March 2010
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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 ...

Berlin Scrumtisch March 2010

Management Buy In & Coaching self-organizing teams.... some of the proposed topics...

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17 March 2010
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Scrumtisch Berlin

Hi guys,

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

Cu you there Marion

Certified Scrum Master Training in Berlin with Bob Sarni

A special CSM training for the Scrumtisch Member in Berlin, March 22./23.

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4 March 2010
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Scrumtisch Berlin
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csm, scrum, scrummaster, scrum master training

Hi everybody,

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

Marion

Scrumtisch February: Scrum at Amazon with Alan Atlas

Alan Atlas was talking about his time @Amazon and how they do or do not Scrum in the S3 project.

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23 February 2010
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Scrumtisch Berlin
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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

The Ableton team builds a LEGO City as part of the Scrum training.

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16 February 2010
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General, Scrum, Training
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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

In a couple of 5 minute sprints, the teams build, refactor and integrate their LEGO creations. Many aspects of Scrum in software ...

Scrumtisch February 2010

Next Scrumtisch will be at the 17th February.

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22 January 2010
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Scrumtisch Berlin
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scrum berlin, scrumtisch

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

I am looking forward to see you there

Marion

New Agilo Christmas Release now available

New Version of Agilo 1.2 now available

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21 December 2009
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A great 2009 is ending and we like to announce the last Agilo Release for this year.

We send all of you, who are using Agilo, giving suggestions and critic, supporting us and giving us feedback a big

THANK YOU

Merry Christmas and a good start in 2010 for all of you
Marion

Here are some informatin about the New Agilo Release 1.2

  • Improved on the Beta Backlog. It is now the default backlog, the previous backlog is now in deprecation. It allows multi-level drag & drop ordering and inline editing of values. The backlog in Agilo Pro also features ...

Offshore scrum: A case study in lean thinking

Presentation at the Scrum Day in Düsseldorf December 2009, by Andrea Tomasini (agile42) and Dave Sharrock (be2) This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Germany License.

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3 December 2009
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Scrum

Presentation at the Scrum Day in Düsseldorf December 2009, by Andrea Tomasini (agile42) and Dave Sharrock (be2)

Scrum Day Düsseldorf Scrum Day Presentation

Abstract of the speech

While the cost argument for moving traditional development teams offshore is well-known (and generally, still quite strong), the difficulty of maintaining high bandwidth communication with offshore teams using agile development methods has often been considered a substantial barrier to effective development. At be2, a Munich-based online international matchmaking service with an IT organisation based in Armenia, we choose to challenge these assumptions. With the help of agile42, a pilot agile project with two development teams was planned working with ...

Christmas Scrumtisch

Last chance to meet again this year ;-)

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30 November 2009
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Tags
lean, lean in a nutshell, scrum, scrumtisch

Hi everybody,

like discussed here comes the invitation for the Christmas Scrumtisch 2009. I hope you will find the time beside all the other events in these days.

Date: 21. December 2009
Time: 18:30 Uhr
Place: La Vecchia Trattoria, Niederbarnimstraße 25, 10247 Berlin

Topic: One topic will be Kanban

Looking forward to see you to have a nice evening. Many greetings Marion

PS. This was the only possible date....

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