20 April 2010
Author:
Marion Eickmann
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.
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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 ...
31 March 2010
Author:
Marion Eickmann
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.
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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 ...
17 March 2010
Author:
Marion Eickmann
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.
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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
4 March 2010
Author:
Marion Eickmann
A special CSM training for the Scrumtisch Member in Berlin, March 22./23.
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
23 February 2010
Author:
Marion Eickmann
Alan Atlas was talking about his time @Amazon and how they do or do not Scrum in the S3 project.
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.

Alan gave examples on:
- The value of simply explaining ...
16 February 2010
Author:
Garbrand van der Molen
The Ableton team builds a LEGO City as part of the 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.

In a couple of 5 minute sprints, the teams build, refactor and integrate their LEGO creations. Many aspects of Scrum in software ...
22 January 2010
Author:
Marion Eickmann
Next Scrumtisch will be at the 17th February.
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
21 December 2009
Author:
Marion Eickmann
New Version of Agilo 1.2 now available
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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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 ...
3 December 2009
Author:
Marion Eickmann
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.
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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Scrum
Presentation at the Scrum Day in Düsseldorf December 2009, by Andrea Tomasini (agile42) and Dave Sharrock (be2)

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 ...
30 November 2009
Author:
Marion Eickmann
Last chance to meet again this year ;-)
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....