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Daily Stand-up IV. Scrum Master and scrumastership
ScrumMaster is baking the daily bread on the daily stand-up. During these meetings his abilities and knowledge are uncovered. There is a possibility to pick up some useful information about the Scrum Mastership during the certification or specialized trainings but only trough real experience can you gain the deeper insight into the nature of things. Good ScrumMaster is able to turn straw for gold. There aren’t any inbound [...]
Agile Tips #1: Ideas for Scrum Master
The suggestions for this week are as follow: Top Five Tips for Starting Agile Talk: Jeff Lawson on Software Development Adopting Agile When Your Management Style is Mostly Command and Control Getting started with Acceptance-Test Driven Development
Scrum and Agile tips
The suggestions for this week are as follow: The article on the importance of modeling in Agile times, especially when development is built on multiple teams and shared understanding 40 minutes long talk about the correlation between safety and success of agile methods, what to do towards the change of organizational culture and to create fundamentals for the flourishing of agile. The presentation from the Brussels Agile Conference deals [...]
Daily Stand-up. Forgot the rules!
Although Agile looks chaotic in practice at first glance, good agile teams take heed to the rules agreed upon in a team. Rules for the daily stand-up Rules for the daily stand-up should cover the following: Where will be the stand-up held? What time does the stand-up start? What is the duration of the stand-up? Who will participate? How will be the stand-up running? How do we know [...]
Daily Stand-up done well II.
We approached the reasons for the regular meetings of the team in the first post. Another issue ScumMaster should consider is where the daily stand-up would be held. This topic is obviously more important for the non-distributed teams. The stand-up that has taken place without any changes in a team room is the common mistake that ScrumMasters do. People are simply facing their computers and the biggest move they [...]
Daily Stand-up done well I.
The daily stand-up is an essential Scrum ceremony that is (luckily) often applied without any further official formalization, especially in small companies where cooperation is still based on conversation. Suddenly these meetings turn down in intensity after several months. During our coaching, many people argue it is waste of time. Why is it so? To answer such a question, we have prepared a short series of articles about [...]
ScrumImpulz 2013, the Agile conference
Proces a agile (pre ScrumImpulz 2013) from ScrumDesk Agile in large organizations from Zuzi Sochova Ján Masaryk, Zavádzanie Agile vo veľkej spoločnosti Fix price-with-scrum eng from agilesk Roman Jurkech - Agilne na testing v Agile from agilesk
James Heidema, Agile for sales & non-IT teams workshop
IT companies apply agile principles and methods to intensify the speed of delivery and its cadence while increasing the business value delivered to customers. But can be agile implemented in non-IT companies as well? The answer is yes. Agile is about principles, not technologies. It comes from industry and it has been adopted to IT. Now, after more than 10 years of adoption of Agile in IT, the [...]
Certified Product Owner course in Bratislava by Robin Dymond
The next event in our Become Agile Leader serie is certification of product owners that will be provided by Robin Dymond. The course will be held in Bratislava (Slovakia) on May 7-8th. About course In this two-day class we cover your role in creating a successful product using Scrum. The Product Owner creates the product vision, sets the product goal and leads the effort to transform the vision [...]
ScrumDesk 5.7.31: Parking Lot Report. Release Planning
Parking Lot As a product owner, you often need to have an overview what is happening to your backlog. Parking lot (suggested by Mike Cohn) provides a very useful overview. The version 5.7.31 brings additional filters based on releases and sprints. Release overview in Parking Lot: Sprint overview in Parking Lot: Stories Overview Do you need to know where is all the effort spread in your backlog? Pie chart [...]
ScrumDesk 5.7.30: Swimlanes, Story Details
Today's release contains more than 20 improvements we focused on. The main goal was to improve the editing of stories, planning, and provide better visibility of your Kanban boards. Swimlanes in Kanban board Swimlanes in Kanban board brings visibility in complex backlogs. Button displays menu from which users can choose based on what story attributes the swimlanes should be created. For example: Assigned - stories will be grouped based [...]
Certified Scrum Master course in Bratislava on May 13th
Bratislava, Slovakia 13 May 2013 (till 14 May 2013) Join our highly-interactive two-day class from the Agile Eastern Europe leader - Alexey Krivitsky. Alexey has been mastering Scrum since 2004 as a ScrumMaster, an Agile Coach, and a Certified Scrum Trainer. Now he is a managing partner of SCRUMguides and Agile Eastern Europe Conference. Get ready for serious and exciting work! Before the class, you get a list of self-preparation materials including [...]
ScrumDesk for Windows 5.6.25: Custom Fields Export & Import
Custom fields export and import have been added to the latest version of the ScrumDesk for Windows. This is helpful in case the Product Owner needs further analyze the product backlog. Custom fields are used to evidence the company's specialties as budgeting, software components, systems or dependencies on other organization units. Changes: [New] Custom fields are exported into Microsoft Excel XLS format including appropriate field names for stories [...]
ScrumDesk for Windows (retired) 5.6.21: Changes Synchronisation
Few customers running the ScrumDesk repositories on servers at different timezone reported problems while editing stories or tasks in ScrumDesk for Windows. The values were not saved and previous values were loaded from the repository. This behavior is fixed now thanks to the collaboration with Andrea, Shane, and Satiapriya.
ScrumDesk 5.6: DropBox integration + WIP limits
Dropbox integration The latest version 5.6.20.101 brings the possibility to link files stored in the Dropbox cloud service. ScrumDesk uses the Dropbox application model which means that only files stored in Dropbox in Apps/ScrumDesk folder are. The files might be linked to projects, releases, sprints, stories, and tasks as well. For more information read the article How to link files from Dropbox. WIP limits Kanban guides teams to [...]