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This is a reflection of the meet the experts – architecture that took place at codecentric in Solingen at November-27-2009.

Since the whole event including all talks was held completly in german an english version of this reflection would probably not be very expedient. Thus I decided not to translate this announcement.

You can read the full version of the reflection if you switch the language to german (by clicking on the german flag in the upper left corner of this page).

Beyond that we will – of course – carry on providing an english version of our blog entries.

This post shall sum up the results from our fruitful discussion on friday evenig. The idea for the open space discussion was sparked by Stefan Zörner who talked about modularity and what happens when you have no control over modularity. This post will not try to repeat the discussion but merely conserve the results:
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This is the announcement of the meet the experts – architecture at November-27-2009.

Since the whole event including all talks will be held in german an english version of the announcement would probably not be very expedient. Thus I decided not to translate this announcement.

You can read the full version of the announcement if you switch the language to german (by clicking on the german flag in the upper left corner of this page).

Beyond that we will – of course – carry on providing an english version of our blog entries.

Ten days ago, our second “meet the experts” took place. I would like to take the opportunity and have a little retrospective here.abzuhalten.

Phase 1: Setting the Stage

Thoughtprovoking.

Phase 2: Gathering Data

At first, here is an analysis of the statistical data of the feedback forms. Participants should rate some aspects of the workshop on a scale from 1 (very good) to 6 (bad):

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Jeff Sutherland himself infected me with Scrum a year ago. We were using eXtreme Programming practices since years, and in my opinion Scrum was the ideal supplement to form an agile project management framework.

Since then we use Scrum in most of our projects in combination with eXtreme Programming and gradually certify all employees as Certified ScrumMaster. For me, Jeff has not promised too much: our customers enjoy a dramatic increase in productivity and quality. Especially the short release cycles (sprints), most often 2 weeks long, caused some excitement.

Even so, we have not always been able to fully implement Scrum together with our customers. During Jeff’s training, but also in Scrum Books by Ken Schwaber, it is always assumed, that Product Owner, Scrum Master and Team are from the same organisation. How does that fit into the working model of a service company as we are, and which roles are fulfilled by the customers and which roles are played by us? So far Scrum was not giving an answer to that.

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