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About the Munich Scrum Gathering - pt. 3

admin — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:03:12 +0000

(continuation of last post) Joseph Pelrine pointed to the ABIDE model (from Dave_Snowden) as the “levers” that can be pulled in order to change the way a team is self-organized. ABIDE stands for: Attractors, Boundaries, Identities, Diversity and Environment. Let’t have a quick look to some simples examples for each one of these “levers”: Attractors: add a charismatic [...]

About the Munich Scrum Gathering - pt. 2

admin — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:52:17 +0000

Monday morning continued in the best way possible with a great Talk, “Coaching Self-Organizing Teams”, from Joseph Pelrine. Joseph Pelrine is a Social Complexity Scientist, and a Certified Scrum Trainer as well. This great presentation didn’t need support of slides/keynote; it was a pity that it lasted only 90 minutes, I could have listened to mr. [...]

About the Munich Scrum Gathering - pt. 1

admin — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 09:48:23 +0000

As promised, here go some lines about the Scrum Gathering which took place here in Munich last week. On Monday morning, Jeff Sutherland (blog) kick-started the gathering with his Opening Address presentation. Jeff’s presentation was overarching, as I’ve expected. Some interesting highlights were: - If (and only if) your team’s Scrum implementation is really mature, use a story [...]

Munich Scrum Gathering - the slides

admin — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 12:49:57 +0000

The second Scrum Gathering of 2009 took place here in Munich, from Monday to Wednesday of this week. Since I was ready to fly to Orlando last year to attend there a Scrum Gathering (but got a new job meanwhile), this was an easy decision to take, and I went, unsurprisingly, to this one - and [...]

Radar: Cross-functional teams and responsability in Scrum

admin — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 13:20:40 +0000

- Nice post about what it really means to have a cross functional team - Other good post from Boris Gloger, about responsibility in a Scrum context

On mistaking speed for getting what you need

admin — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 14:43:06 +0000

It’s a known fact that even though Scrum is a simple methodology, its simple concepts are frequently misunderstood. So, let’s mix the aforementioned quest for a software productivity measurement with those misconceptions around Scrum, and what do you get? Answer: the use of Velocity as a productivity measurement. Using a single number (like Velocity) as a [...]

My review of “Making Things Happen”

admin — Thu, 14 May 2009 10:50:40 +0000

Just a quick heads-up: you can find my review of “Making Things Happen” at McLean’s blog (to whom I thank for publishing it) , more specifically here.

Offline 2nd meeting of Project Management forum from Xing

admin — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 19:42:07 +0000

Following the success of the first meeting, I’ll be present on the second offline meeting of PM forum from Xing. Where: Vienna, Austria - Brandauer’s Schlossbräu , Am Platz 5 When: 14 Feb 2008, 07:00 pm — 11:45 pm (Berlin Time) See you there :).

Radar: velocity signatures

admin — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 18:25:25 +0000

Here is a very interesting article about velocity signatures of agile Teams (thx, Dan)

Team discipline at Scrum

admin — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 13:55:35 +0000

If you are used to work in the command and control way that is implicitly imposed by futurology-based predictive processes, such as Waterfall, Scrum might look (at first site) like a “The Captain is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship(*)”-process. It’s the team members that attribute tasks to themselves? [...]