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Tech-Ed Australia 2008 - My Scrum Presentation
9/4/2008
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.

Scrum Wordle
8/14/2008
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.

Scrum Worlde

QVSTS Photos online - ouch
8/12/2008
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


The Product Backlog... Another free set of slides
8/12/2008
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.

Anyone fancy a Scrum meeting at Tech-Ed (Australia)?
8/11/2008
TechEd

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?

QLD VSTS Presentation
8/8/2008
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...

Watch this space: Awesome site update coming very soon.
8/5/2008
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...

Finally proof the Product Owner is a chicken!
7/26/2008
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...