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New Chief Agility Officer Blog

My focus over the last year or two has been on Agile Transformations. To that end i have started a blog/website over at www.chiefagilityofficer.com that you might want to check out...

See you over there

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Follow me on Twitter

There will be more updates coming to the site soon, but meanwhile follow me on twitter for more updates.

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Scum Alliance Certification Statistics

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Another Special Offer : Certified Scrum Master Class – Melbourne July 14-15 Save $100

Save $100 on our Certified Scrum Master course. Following on from the success of our first CSM class in Sydney last week Kane Mar and I will be delivering the second of our co-trained CSM classes in Melbourne on July 14th and 15th.

Similar to last time, ScrumMaster.com.au is offering a special $100 discount to its readers and friends, we look forward to seeing you there!

For more information about the course please see here

Click this link to register for the course and enter the special discount code JBMELB20100714 into the box.

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Special Offer : Certified Scrum Master Class – Sydney, June 9-10 Save $100

Save $100 on our Certified Scrum Master course. Kane Mar and I will be delivered the first of our co-trained CSM classes in Sydney on June 9th and 10th.

To celebrate this ScrumMaster.com.au is offering a special $100 discount to its readers and friends.

For more information about the course please see here

Click this link to register for the course and enter the special discount code JBSYD20100609 into the box.

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2010... Lots of new updates and material coming soon!

Apologies: This is my first post for what looks like months and for that I have to apologise. Back in July 2009 I started working with Suncorp as an Agile Coach, coaching them through one of the biggest Agile transitions in Australia. They have in the region of 2000 people in the IT department alone! It’s been a very busy time and I have been working on some interesting projects and tasks at Suncorp, one of which was an Agile Maturity Assessment (AMA) which we performed across the whole of the IT organisation on numerous projects spanning all the vertical businesses within Suncorp such as Commercial and Personal Insurance, Corporate Systems, Infrastructure, Banking and Life and our New Zealand teams.
I plan a strong return to the website, with new and updated information, articles and other exciting material which I hope you will enjoy.

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JAOO recently ran a number of conferences in Australia. They have now made the presentations freely available online for all to download.

You can find the Brisbane sessions here… http://jaoo.com.au/brisbane-2009/schedule/monday.jsp

Below is collection of agile related presentations for your viewing pleasure…

The Power of Retrospectives
http://jaoo.com.au/brisbane-2009/file?path=/jaoo-sydney-2009/slides/LindaRising_ThePowerOfRetrospectives.pdf

Scaling Scrum with feature teams
http://jaoo.com.au/brisbane-2009/file?path=/jaoo-sydney-2009/slides//BasVodde_ScalingScrum.pdf

How your choices influence your agility
http://jaoo.com.au/brisbane-2009/file?path=/jaoo-brisbane-2009/slides/SteveHayes_HowYourChoicesInfluenceYourAgility.pdf

Lessons Learned in Programmer Testing
http://jaoo.com.au/brisbane-2009/file?path=/jaoo-sydney-2009/slides/JamesNewkirk_LessonsLearnedInProgrammerTesting.pdf

Description and Estimation How We Fool Ourselves
http://jaoo.com.au/brisbane-2009/file?path=/jaoo-sydney-2009/slides/LindaRising_DeceptionAndEstimationHowWeFoolOurselves.pdf

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Scrum Introduction : A free presentation for beginners

I have been asked a number of times for a short presentation introducing Scrum. I find it difficult to cover all the aspects of Scrum, agile and team software development in two days let alone 2 hours. So I have structured the content of the presentation around the new “Scrum Guide” published by Ken Schwaber recently. I did this to ensure that i covered the basics as Ken sees them; the roles, the flow, the theory and artefacts. I am making this freely available here and would love to hear any feedback you may have, so please use the feedback form if you have anything, good or bad to say.

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ScrumAlliance publish free Scrum Guide

In synchronization with the Orlando Scrum Gathering the ScrumAlliance unveiled a new look website which you can find here www.scrumalliance.org.

Amongst the new content area they are now providing (called the ScrumHub) you will find a “Scrum Guide”. This is a 13 page PDF document which is free to download and is a great introduction to the roles, ceremonies and artifacts of the Scrum framework. If you are new to Scrum I suggest you spend a few minutes reading through the words that Ken (Schwaber) has put down on paper.

So head on over and check it out more..

5 Scrum questions to leading lights in the industry: Issue 4: Alistair Cockburn

In issue 4 of the five questions series we hear from Alistair Cockburn. Alistair is a leading agile evangelist and book author and recently presented a number of sessions at the Orlando Scrum Gathering, including the “panel of 5” open discussion with the likes of Ken Schwaber, Mike Cohn, Ron Jeffries and Jim Coplien.
Alistair is currently working alongside Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland and absorbing their thoughts and ideas, some of which are un-written. Alistair is an excellent wordsmith and is hoping to articulate in more detail some of the details of Scrum and its implementation. An example of this is the term “Scrum is a mirror” which you will see Alistair refer to in his answers below. This term refers to Scrum acting as a mirror into your organisation and identifying impediments and issues that need resolutions. So without any more delay I give you Dr. Alistair Cockburn…

A big thankyou to Alistair for taking the time to respond some quickly.

Issues in the series

Issue 1: Ron Jeffries
Issue 2: Ken Schwaber
Issue 3: Mike Cohn
Issue 4: Alistair Cockburn

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5 Scrum questions to leading lights in the industry: Issue 3: Mike Cohn

In issue 3 of the five questions series we hear from Mike Cohn. Mike is the author of some of the most successful IT books, including Agile Estimating and Planning, User Stories Applied and his upcoming new book Succeeding with Agile.

A big thankyou to Mike for taking the time to squeeze these answers into his incredibly busy schedule.

Issues in the series

Issue 1: Ron Jeffries
Issue 2: Ken Schwaber
Issue 3: Mike Cohn
Issue 4: Alistair Cockburn

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I am now a Certified Scrum Coach

I am pleased to announce that I have recently gained my Certified Scrum Coach (CSC) qualification. So what does that mean? Well statistically I am now one of the 13 active CSC’s in the world (according to the Scrum Alliance site), so this is a very small community, when you consider that there are now over 35,000 Certified Scrum Masters (CSM’s) globally.

Why have I gone for the CSC and not CST (Certified Scrum Trainer). Well for me the CSC qualification reflects what I do in my day to day life. Yes it would be advantageous to be able to certify people as CSMs (something only CST’s can do), but the CST program is designed for people who are primarily giving 2-3 day training courses at public and privately run courses. This does not align with what I do. I do see the CSM course as an integral part of the adoption of Scrum within an organisation however; it is in reality only a starter for the weeks, months and even years of hard work required for a successful Scrum adoption.

So does this mean I now know everything about Scrum and my learning stops? No way! Far from it; although the CSC qualification is the pinnacle of the Scrum Alliance certifications we can never know enough and we must continually “Inspect and Adapt” and strive for continuous improvement. In some ways I consider this equivalent to passing my driving test. I am now able to get out there and learn for real

James Brett

To contact me please use the Contact Us page

For further information about the Scrum Alliance certifications please see their website here more..

5 Scrum questions to leading lights in the industry: Issue 2: Ken Schwaber

In issue 2 of the five questions series we hear from one of the godfarthers of Scrum Ken Schwaber. Ken (along with Jeff Sutherland) is responsible for creating Scrum way back in the day, not only that but Ken created (or helped create) the Scrum Alliance and the Agile Alliance. Ken has produced three Scrum books that have guided so many people through the Scrum framework. So without further ado. I give you the man himself....Ken Schwaber!

Issues in the series

Issue 1: Ron Jeffries
Issue 2: Ken Schwaber
Issue 3: Mike Cohn
Issue 4: Alistair Cockburn

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Flock Theory Paper published by the Scrum Alliance

I have been working hard on a paper that relates Flock Theory by D.Rosen to Scrum and Scrum Teams. The paper has now been published by the Scrum Alliance as an official resource and can be found here on the Scrum Alliance website

Overview
In this article we look at Flock Theory by D.Rosen for answers to creating highly optimized, self organised Scrum teams. Once we have learned the technicalities of Scrum - the roles, the artifacts and the meetings - we then begin over time to gain an understanding that strong team work and communication is key to a good Scrum team. But how do we achieve that? How do we build a Scrum team and how do we provide for their needs? How do we manage the challenges of the social complexities involved in teamwork?

Mike Cohn's "Succeeding With Agile" Book
Mike will be adding the article to his new book Succeeding With Agile as further reading in his section on Teamwork.

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A big thank you to Stacia Broderick for proofing, check out her excellent book The Software Project Manager’s Bridge to Agility

The paper can also be downloaded from the downloads on Scrummaster.com.au here more..

Creator of Planning Poker Talks on YouTube.com

Planning poker is a popular tool to aid in the estimation process in Scrum and XP teams. James Grenning is the guy who invented the concept and it was popularized by Mike Cohn. There is a great [short] clip of James Grenning talking about how Planning Poker came about on YouTube. Here it is for your viewing pleasure...

If you would like more information on Planning Poker check out the Planning Poker page where you will find details on how to play the game, links to Mountain Goat Software (Mike Cohn) and a source to buy the cards. more..

5 Scrum questions to leading lights in the industry: Issue 1: Ron Jeffries

This is the first instalment of a brand new series of articles I will be bringing you over the next few months (or years, depending on its success). I have devised five questions that I intend to put to some of the leading lights in the Scrum industry, either famous, infamous or just those with a raft of experience. The questions are Scrum related and by asking them I hope to provide an insight into how these people think and what they think about Scrum.

The five questions are:

Can you describe what you would consider the top Scrum enabler in an organization?
Where do you see Scrum in 5 years time?
What has been your toughest Scrum challenge so far?
What makes you passionate about Scrum?
What can we learn from you about Scrum?

Issues in the series

Issue 1: Ron Jeffries
Issue 2: Ken Schwaber
Issue 3: Mike Cohn
Issue 4: Alistair Cockburn

Ron Jeffries

First up in the series is Ron Jefferies. Ron was involved in the original creation of the Agile Manifesto and is a leading practitioner in Agile, XP and Scrum. I hope you find Ron’s answers interesting, I know I did. more..

Products Section Launched

We are pleased to announce we have launched our first product on the products page. Planning Poker cards are an essential tool in the estimation process and we are pleased to announce that we are the first Australian supplier of these cards, with a completely fresh and new design.
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Mike Visdos and I talking about the Scrum Survey

Mike Visdos over at ImplementingScrum.com has kicked off a new series of podcasts called "ImplementingScrum - Unscripted", with yours truly as the the very first guest.

Mike and I spend around 8 minutes talking through the Australian Scrum Survey and some of the interesting results.

ImplementingScrum.com is one of the most popular Scrum websites with Mike offering a regular blog feed and a very entertaining Cartoon series. So head on over to to his site and check out our podcast and the rest of his articles. Click here for the Podcast and article more..

Scrum Survey Results Jan 2009 - 67 Reponses

Martin and I were planning to collect the results of the survey after 50 response were in, but we had a last minute rush this week (I assume due to people being back at work) so we now have a great 67 responses.

A big thankyou to all that have particpated and I hope you all find the answers very interesting. Martin will be do some analysis of the figures during his presentation to the Brisbane Scrum User Group on Jan 28th.

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Osmotic Hair Styles and Borg-ing

Teamwork, can it go too far? We all know the benefits of a performing team and the stages they go through: Forming, Storming, Norming, and Performing (Tuckman model) well maybe there should be a further step after this which I would like to call “Borg-ing”. “Borg-ing”, by my definition is to become Borg like. I don’t mean the teams all become cybernetically enhanced humanoid drones… more..

Particpate in the great Australian Scrum Survey

The global Scrum community is growing rapidly on a daily basis and nowhere is this more evident than in Australia. Australia now has 3 Scrum user groups, with hundreds of members all practicing (or moving) to Scrum.
Myself and Martin Kearns of Renewtek have put together an Australian focused Scrum survey to try and get a big picture of exactly where Scrum is down under. We hope to collect as many responses as possible from all over the country and provide the results back to you, the people on a regular basis. Providing we get enough people contributing to the surveys, it should provide us all with a “Scrum Dashboard” of what is happening out in the field and the issues that we most commonly face.

So do your bit for a good cause and TAKE THE SURVEY HERE

Pass it on to as many people as possible within Australia! more..

The Agile Farmer

This is a concept that I have created to help illustrate at a metaphoric level the benefits of Agile development over traditional methods.

The Agile Farmer constantly adapts to the changing requirements of the seed he has planted and adds small amounts of water, food and light on an on going basis for faster return on investment and greater business value.

The Agile Farmer (PDF) more..

Free Scrum Practitioners Slide Deck

Heres another freebie on some of the things to look out for when transitioning to Scrum and my top 10 hints and tips for working with Scrum in your organisation.

Scrum Practitioner Slides more..

First Brisbane Scrum User Group A Huge Success

After weeks of preperation and organisation I kicked off the first Brisbane Scrum User Group session last night. There was a huge turnout of people (42) from a wide spectrum of industries, government and private and a wide range of Scrum experiences.

Over 25 individual companies represented, ranging from small start up's (6 weeks old) through to large and government enterprise sized establishments.

There are currently over 80 people signed up online for the group, a massive interest in Scrum.

As you will see from the meeting details we had a packed agenda for the night, ran in a very agile manner, with a town hall update leading into good conversations over food, followed by a presentation from Rowan and then I facilitated a product backlog creation session.

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Daily Scrum Late Penalties

A key component of the Scrum framework is the daily stand up meeting, the Scrum. The Scrum meeting is held at the same time and in the same place everyday and more than likely near to where the team works and where their task board is located. Each of the team members answer three questions in the scrum:

What have you been working on since we last met?
What are you going to work on?
Do you have any impediments?

The scrum allows the team to understand what each member is doing and is essential to the team work involved in delivering a sprint. I also have one team that have added a fourth question to the list and that is “What is your confidence rating (1-10) of delivering the sprint goal?” This helps the team and Scrummaster identify some possibly hidden issues across the team.

As such it is usual for the team to decide on a late penalty for any team member who either does not attend the Scrum or turns up late. It’s essential that the team decides on this penalty and what, If any “excuses” are acceptable for being late. One of my teams went through this process recently and as the team came to the agreement that any later comers would provide donuts the following day as “punishment” one of the team members spoke out and said “I’m not doing that! What if I get stuck with a production support issue? That’s not my fault I am late”. The team then debated what was and wasn’t acceptable as a late excuse. After which they all agreed that the late penalty was to be donuts (again). A 100% agreement was reached across the team. more..

Australia's first official Scrum User Group

Ive been working hard recently on creating Australias first Scrum user group. I managed to gain 2 sponsors to provide the catering and a room, and we have a meetup site over at http://www.meetup.com/11/ and currently have 54 members signed up.

A few weeks ago, I submmited our group for appoval and listing with the Scrum Alliance. The great news is they have approved the group.

This makes us the first "official scrum user group" in Australia :)

You can find us listed on the Scrum Alliance website here http://www.scrumalliance.org/pages/user_groups more..

Scrum for Team System v2.2 just released

Conchango have just released v2.2 of SFTS...

What’s new in version 2.2?

New Engineering Practices reports:

Build Code Churn
Build Duration
Build Files
Build League
Build Quality
Build Static Analysis and Compile
Build Unit Tests
Builds
Code Coverage
Last Build Unit Test Results

SharePoint Portal

Installer now includes the fixes required to upgrade the SfTS 1.2 project portals
"Reports List" Web part fixed to show report list when Team Project Name contains spaces

ScrumforTeamSystem installed web site

Changing a SBI state from (or to) “Deleted” now triggers the work remaining update.
Now compatible with SfTS 1.x projects. The work remaining values in team projects created from version 1.2 of the SfTS template will continue to be updated.
Now includes "Report Slide Show" web page (see below for more info)
Changing the SBI links now triggers the State transition process.
Added session state handler instruction to the “web.config” to override MOSS default setting.

Process Template changes

New SBI state transition added. Deferred -> Not Done.

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3rd Annual State of Agile Development survey results

Version One have recently published their in depth Agile survey which shows some obvious (to me at least) facts, but also some interesting areas, both fit for discussion.

The total number of respondents were, 3016 with 2319 surveys completed, spanning 80 different countries.

Firstly for me the statistics that I expected are as follows:

Lack of up front planning being the highest concern about agile development (45%)
Ability to change organizational culture is citied as the biggest barrier to agile adoption followed by a general resistance to change
A matching statistic is the “company philosophy” is cited as the biggest reason for agile projects failing
The most used agile tool is Excel :)
Only 17% utilise agile on ALL of their projects.
The most important reason for adopting agile is to “Accelerate time to market”, very closely followed by “Enhance ability to manage changing priorities”

Now the more interesting results, for me at least are… more..

Scrum for Team System and tracking actual development time

Last Friday morning I presented a second Scrum talk on the topic of “Scrum: A hands-on look at Scrum for Team System.” at the Queensland VSTS user group. As usual there was a good turn out of people (for an 8am Friday morning start) and the presentation went pretty well, with lots of audience participation. Conversation was based mainly around estimating, story points and the product backlog and the dreaded talk of measuring actual time spent on tasks.

Measuring actual time spent on a Scrum task is a question that comes up often. In this session the comment was in relation to where in team system the actual time could be recorded? The answer surprisingly enough for a Scrum tool is nowhere (unless of course you add it yourself). I always like to dig deeper into the details of why people want to track actual time spent on a task, it normally comes down to two reasons :

To improve your own or the teams estimating skills. People believe that if they look at their estimate for a tasks and the actual then they will be able to improve their estimating.
A lack of trust between the line management and the team. The management want to know who is doing what and how long it is taking them.

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Mind maps and User Stories

Mind maps are a great tool for capturing brainstorming ideas. I dont intend to talk at great length here about how mind maps work as there are numerous articles on the net about mind maps and a good starting point is Wikipedia.

The interesting part for me was seeing these maps at work capturing user story requirements, which I have been doing for a few months now to great effect... more..

Chicken Chucker!

Are you having trouble with "noisey" chickens at your Scrum's? Then try one of these gadgets and chuck your chickens :)

They can really throw a chicken, my son manage to throw one of his chickens over 30 feet! ... more..

Scrum for Team System presentation

Im presenting this session at the Queensland VSTS user group session on Friday 3rd October.

Overview
In this session I will be introducing Conchango’s Scrum for Team System (SFTS) plug-in for tracking a Scrum project.
Tracking progress is an essential part of Scrum as is making this progress visible. We can use a number of tools to help automate this process however, we must remember that using a Scrum tool does not mean we are doing Scrum AND that Scrum requires no tools to run successfully.

With that said, SFTS can take some of the pain out of the administrative duties of the Scrum master for those that are using VSTS as their work item repository.

We will walk through creating a SFTS project, entering Sprint planning data, burning down a sprint and completing the release, and look at how SFTS automagically produces our Scrum artefacts such as the Sprint and Product Burndown charts. more..

Sprint Burndown chart: The Jekyll and Hyde of Scrum

Firstly, for those of you who don’t know what a Sprint Burndown is....

It is the chart that tracks available time in a sprint against the remaining work, as shown below. So we start at the beginning of the sprint at the top left hand side of the chart with all the work remaining (we haven’t done anything yet) and all the hours of the sprint available. We then progress towards the right (time) and downwards (completing work) until we hit zero, hopefully on or before the end of the sprint. more..

Certified Scrum Practitioner

I submitted my application form to become a CSP a while back and received an email from the Scrum Alliance informing me I had passed and was now a CSP...... more..

Tech-Ed Australia 2008 - My Scrum Presentation

I'm currently down at Tech-ed in Sydney and its been a pretty good conference so far. Although I must say Agile and Scrum are pretty poorly represented.

I co-presented with Anthony Borton on Scrum in the MVP theatre and whilst it was a small session it was 100% full which is a good sign. It would be good to see alot more Agile/Scrum topics at next years event as the masses are definately on the move towards Agile.

Some pictures to follow when I get back. more..

Scrum Wordle

If you haven't seen worlde in action jump over to www.wordle.net and have a play. Its a tag cloug generator that you can feed blocks of text, url's feeds etc.

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QVSTS Photos online - ouch

Anthony has posted some photos of the QVSTS Scrum session i did last week online. Ok so the first pic - i REALLY look like its 7.30am on a Friday morning! haha

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The Product Backlog... Another free set of slides

I get alot of questions about the Product Backlog, its one of the more "tricky" areas of Scrum which can lead to Scrum projects failing. You need to understand what the Product Backlog is, who owns it, how its maintained etc.
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Anyone fancy a Scrum meeting at Tech-Ed (Australia)?

So Tech-Ed is just around the corner. I'll be down in Sydney from Tuesday the 2nd through till Friday 5th and wondered how many of you fellow "Scrummers" will be there and fancy having a "Scrum gathering" over a beer or two? more..

QLD VSTS Presentation

So I delivered (in a not so timely manner) my presentation this morning to the QVSTSUG.

Thanks for the very warm welcome and the interest conversations. It looks like Scrum really is gaining momentum over here now with a couple of CSM's attending and a good batch of people actually practicing Scrum... more..

Watch this space: Awesome site update coming very soon.

Ok, so at the moment i/this site has a huge product backlog and a team of one, but im working through all the items (in priority order of course).

The next big thing coming is a complete site overhaul. Im still working on the final site design but I have the logo and color scheme finalised now. Heres a sneak peak of things to come... more..

Finally proof the Product Owner is a chicken!

So this all became clear to me during a Scrum training session I gave this week...

Proof:

So in Scrum we talk about a number of terms and roles, the ones I’m talking about today are the Product Owner, chickens and pigs... more..

Another FREE Scrum resource

A great free pdf/ebook is available "Scrum and XP from trenches". A very interesting read at a very good price. Hard copies can also be ordered for a small price. more..

Agile Practices and Principles: Open Survey

Scott Ambler and Mike Vizdos have got their heads together and come up with the above survey, please spend a few minutes completing it so we can get a good idea of where people/companies are. more..

The (not so) New New Product Development Game

As some of you will probably know one of inspirations/origins for Scrum came from the article "The New New Product Development Game" by Hirotaka Takeuchi and Ikujiro Nonaka. Remarkably enough this article was written way back in 1986, incredible really as there are still companies out there that would look at the concepts presented in the article and call them "bleeding edge". more..

Im presenting at Queensland VSTS User group

Ive been invited to talk about Scrum at the QVSTSUG their website can be found here.. http://qvstsug.org/

Register and come along and talk Scrum with us. more..

Ken Schwaber Podcast with Scott Hanselman

Most of you will probably know Ken (and if you are from the Microsoft develop pen you will know Scott too). Ken and Jeff Sutherland are the original creators of Scrum way back in the day. Anyway, check out Scott talking with Ken about a whole raft of interesting topics....

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20 More Certified Scrum Masters in Australia

Its been a few months in coming but I now have 20 Certified Scrum Masters in my company. We managed to engage Jens Ostergaard for a full 2 days in house to run the CSM course. more..

A good 5 mins intro to Scrum

Jens Oestergaard recently sent me a link to a great 5 mns intro to scrum over at Softhouse

Check it out and send it to you manager :) more..

We don’t have time for reviews or retrospectives!

Ever been struck for time during a project? Is your sprint running close to the wire? Ever thought about cutting out those reviews and retrospectives to gain a handful of development hours back? more..

Silverlight Scrum Wall

Ok, so pretty obviously im working with Scrum, but im also looking at Silverlight (isn't silver-light another way of saying Flash?) and I got to thinking "This would be a cool technology to create a Scrum Wall". more..

Is your team struggling with quality?

Sorry but this post isn't going to be the answer to your woes! We have been having some issues I feel centered around a quality and attitude during our project, and whilst reading through various articles I came across this story which really strikes a chord on our project.... more..

Sprint Retrospectives and their Formats or "When Retrospectives Go Wrong!"

Firstly let me say that holding Sprint Retrospectives should be considered mandatory in the Scrum process in your organisation. Obviously their goal is to allow the team to look at what went well in a sprint and what didn't. But they are often overlooked, rushed and not given due time and attention. Another aspect of Sprint Retrospectives we must be careful of is, that they do not de-generate into a finger pointing and moaning exercise. Retrospectives that spiral into this pit of doom, are often a result of a poorly structured meeting, probably caused by opening with "What worked in the sprint and what didn't?".... more..

Scrum: Use more paper!

So you’re running Scrum on your project and you have your burn down chart, your sprint back log and everything is ticking along nicely, or is it? Do you have trouble getting developers to update the sprint backlog? Do they still loose focus of when the end of the sprint is? Maybe the management keep asking you how things are going, even though they have access to your sprint burn down on the network.

These could be symptoms of an electronic Scrum process. By electronic Scum process I mean you have your sprint data held electronically in say Excel or Visual Studio Team System... more..

Scrum's taking too long? People talking too much? Get this timer...

A bit of good, clean fun. This timer has proved very productive and entertaining. Set the time and start it off, its free and even has an audible warning half way through... more..