The slides for my talk at AgileCE on sustainable Scrum transitions – “Making Scrum Stick” are available here. Many thanks to the organisers for a fantastic conference and to many people for the great discussions in person and via twitter.
Author: Simon Roberts
Effective Chartering for Scrum Teams
The presentation from my talk with Jens Korte on team chartering at the March 2010 Scrum Gathering in Orlando is now available online at http://prezi.com/gc0m9zvmjb0q/. We enjoyed preparing and giving this talk very much. Thanks very much to the people who attended and for the interesting questions and discussion, all of which contributed to the… Continue reading Effective Chartering for Scrum Teams
Leuchtfeuer entzünden: Einführung von Scrum bei der Allianz Deutschland AG
An article, co-written by ScrumCenter founders Christoph Mathis and Simon Roberts, describing the Scrum transition at Allianz Deutschland AG, is now available for free download thanks to an agreement with SIGS-DATACOM GmbH. The article, co-written by Gerhard Hastreiter (Allianz Deutschland AG), Chistoph Mathis (ScrumCenter GmbH) and Simon Roberts (ScrumCenter GmbH), first appeared in the January… Continue reading Leuchtfeuer entzünden: Einführung von Scrum bei der Allianz Deutschland AG
Certified Scrum Product Owner in Solingen
In association with codecentric GmbH, Simon Roberts will be teaching a Certified Scrum Product Owner course (in German) on 2./3.09.2009 in Solingen. This will be presented directly before codecentric’s “Meet the Experts: Agilität” event on 4.09.2009 and provides an ideal opportunity to learn more about Scrum’s Product Owner role. Why not attend both events –… Continue reading Certified Scrum Product Owner in Solingen
Meet the Experts – Agilität
Simon Roberts will be speaking at codecentric’s event “Meet the Experts – Agilität” in Sollingen on 04.09.2009. The innovative “Meet the Experts” series combines talks from invited speakers with an Open Space session. Simon’s talk will be on the topic of “Making Scrum Stick” where he will reflect on some of the factors that are… Continue reading Meet the Experts – Agilität
Leuchtfeuer: Introducing Scrum to an Enterprise by Lighting Beacons
At the German Scrum Open Space conference on 11th July, Christoph Mathis and I presented our ideas on sustainable Enterprise Scrum transitions. The ideas are based on our experiences leading the successful Scrum transition at Allianz Deutchland over the last 1.5 years and identifies some of the key success factors and pitfalls as well as… Continue reading Leuchtfeuer: Introducing Scrum to an Enterprise by Lighting Beacons
Brain-writing Retrospectives
There are many techniques that can be applied during Scrum retrospectives. The excellent book “Agile Retrospectives” by Esther Derby and Diana Larsen has several suggestions. As a Scrum coach I try to keep retrospectives fresh and interesting by using different techniques and I regularly dip into this book for inspiration. One of the simplest retrospective… Continue reading Brain-writing Retrospectives
Updates for 2007-12-20
Looks like a fix for the Leopard Wi-Fi stability problem (kernel panic) is coming in 10.5.2 http://tinyurl.com/yrefg4 # Powered by Twitter Tools.
Default Keyboard Focus
flow|state: Show mercy to keyboard users (yourself included) by setting the default keyboard focus In this post on flow|state the author explains the importance of setting the default keyboard focus in a web application – i.e. where text will appear if the user starts typing without clicking on a control or otherwise changing the focus.… Continue reading Default Keyboard Focus
Pair Programming
In PairProgrammingMisconceptions Martin Fowler makes some very good points and I agree with everything that he writes. However, I think that there is an important point that he has not mentioned: what are the alternatives? In traditional software engineering projects, there has been widespread use of peer review (design reviews, code inspections, code walkthroughs etc.)… Continue reading Pair Programming