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
Category: agile
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
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
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
Is the Toyota Production System Responsible for Toyota’s Success?
In April of this year it was announced that Toyota had overtaken General Motors as the largest manufacturer of automobiles in the world in terms of vehicles sold. It seems that they will maintain this lead for some time to come. Interesting, a Toyota representative played down the achievement stating that they were focussed on… Continue reading Is the Toyota Production System Responsible for Toyota’s Success?
TDD Workshop
I recently led a test-driven development (TDD) workshop for the team that I am currently coaching. We’ve been working together for several Sprints (every Sprint bar none has resulted in valuable functionality that has been put into production). We’ve previously looked at unit tests in detail and I had made a strong recommendation to try… Continue reading TDD Workshop
Second Talk on Agile at CDTM
I was recently invited to do another talk on agile methods at the Center for Digital Technology and Management in Munich, Germany. This time, the talk covered the following areas: user stories agile estimating and planning After examining some of the characteristics of good user stories, the students practiced writing some (with “As a …,… Continue reading Second Talk on Agile at CDTM
Talk on Scrum and SOA at the CDTM in Munich
I was recently invited to talk about Scrum and SOA at the Center for Digital Technology and Management in Munich, Germany. The CDTM is a partnership between two Munich universities and cooperates closely with industry. It’s aim is to “prepare the students for future leadership positions in their professional career.” The talk was provided as… Continue reading Talk on Scrum and SOA at the CDTM in Munich