Tag Archives: Boris Gloger

#scrumday in düsseldorf

2. December 2009 by Fabian Lange

scrumday düsseldorfscrumdays are local smaller sized events where SCRUM communities can meet and exchange their experience. As we are also very active in the agile community, codecentric of course had also a booth at todays scrumday in Düsseldorf. From the talks I was able to pick up two trending topics, which are quite interesting. They are not dealing with what scrum is and why it is great.
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Fabian Lange

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This post is written on 2. December 2009 by Fabian Lange.

 

The conventional project manager in Scrum

21. October 2009 by Uwe Friedrichsen

Many “conventional” project manager are quite offish about Scrum or they even reject it completely. One of the reasons for this behaviour is that they cannot identify with Scrum since there isn’t a role “project manager” in Scrum. Throughout our Meet the Experts – Agility had the opportunity to talk a bit about this topic with Boris Gloger.

Before, within an open space session Boris had presented his point of view on the role Product Owner. Throughout this presentation I realised that this role has a lot more elements of the conventional project manager role than I thought before. I got the perception that the responsibilities of the conventional project manager became distributed across the roles Product Owner and Scrum Master in a certain way. Having this picture in mind I asked Boris about it and he confirmed my perception. To be exact, he even extended it a bit:
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Uwe Friedrichsen

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This post is written on 21. October 2009 by Uwe Friedrichsen.

 

Agile Testing Days – Keynote from Stuart Reid – Investing in individuals and interactions

14. October 2009 by Andreas Ebbert-Karroum

The keynote starts with our dear agile chicken & pigs story. Pigs are the ones who are fully commited to the projects, all other stakeholders are chickens. Judged from the agenda, this session will be much about required skills and motivation. That sounds promising :)

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Andreas Ebbert-Karroum

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This post is written on 14. October 2009 by Andreas Ebbert-Karroum.

 

Agile Testing Days Berlin, The First Day

12. October 2009 by Andreas Ebbert-Karroum

The first of the agile testing days has passed. Weeks ago I classified the conference as minor and german. But when I learned at Agile 2009 in Chicago that many people are coming, I suspected that it is going to be bigger and more international than I first assumed. This has been confirmed today. Many interesting discussions and contacts spawned from the atmosphere that was created within the well equipped and arcitectural interesting venue.

A dinner downer: The speaker all took of for the speaker dinner, which left all of the regular visitors on themselves. Thomas and I will check were we can find other agile testers for dinner.

Designing a Lean Software Development Process, by Mary and Tom Poppendieck

Visited and written by: Andreas

According to the abstract of that tutorial, it should show possibilities how plateauing productivity improvements of agile teams can be analysed. Also options for improvements should be shown.
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Andreas Ebbert-Karroum

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This post is written on 12. October 2009 by Andreas Ebbert-Karroum.

 

Retrospective: meet the experts – agility

15. September 2009 by Andreas Ebbert-Karroum

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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Andreas Ebbert-Karroum

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This post is written on 15. September 2009 by Andreas Ebbert-Karroum.

 

Scrum for Software Consultants

6. September 2009 by Mirko Novakovic

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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Mirko Novakovic

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This post is written on 6. September 2009 by Mirko Novakovic.