Another FREE Scrum resource7/24/2008
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.
Agile Practices and Principles: Open Survey7/23/2008
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.
The (not so) New New Product Development Game7/22/2008
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".
Im presenting at Queensland VSTS User group7/15/2008
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.
Register and come along and talk Scrum with us.
Ken Schwaber Podcast with Scott Hanselman7/15/2008
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....
20 More Certified Scrum Masters in Australia5/29/2008
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.
A good 5 mins intro to Scrum 5/7/2008
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 :)
Check it out and send it to you manager :)
We don’t have time for reviews or retrospectives!3/13/2008
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?

