5/21/2009

JAOO recently ran a number of conferences in Australia. They have now made the presentations freely available online for all to download.

 

You can find the Brisbane sessions here… http://jaoo.com.au/brisbane-2009/schedule/monday.jsp

Below is collection of agile related presentations for your viewing pleasure…

The Power of Retrospectives
http://jaoo.com.au/brisbane-2009/file?path=/jaoo-sydney-2009/slides/LindaRising_ThePowerOfRetrospectives.pdf

Scaling Scrum with feature teams
http://jaoo.com.au/brisbane-2009/file?path=/jaoo-sydney-2009/slides//BasVodde_ScalingScrum.pdf

How your choices influence your agility
http://jaoo.com.au/brisbane-2009/file?path=/jaoo-brisbane-2009/slides/SteveHayes_HowYourChoicesInfluenceYourAgility.pdf

Lessons Learned in Programmer Testing
http://jaoo.com.au/brisbane-2009/file?path=/jaoo-sydney-2009/slides/JamesNewkirk_LessonsLearnedInProgrammerTesting.pdf

Description and Estimation How We Fool Ourselves
http://jaoo.com.au/brisbane-2009/file?path=/jaoo-sydney-2009/slides/LindaRising_DeceptionAndEstimationHowWeFoolOurselves.pdf


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Scrum Introduction : A free presentation for beginners
5/6/2009

I have been asked a number of times for a short presentation introducing Scrum. I find it difficult to cover all the aspects of Scrum, agile and team software development in two days let alone 2 hours. So I have structured the content of the presentation around the new “Scrum Guide” published by Ken Schwaber recently. I did this to ensure that i covered the basics as Ken sees them; the roles, the flow, the theory and artefacts. I am making this freely available here and would love to hear any feedback you may have, so please use the feedback form if you have anything, good or bad to say.

Enjoy....


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ScrumAlliance publish free Scrum Guide
3/25/2009
In synchronization with the Orlando Scrum Gathering the ScrumAlliance unveiled a new look website which you can find here www.scrumalliance.org.

Amongst the new content area they are now providing (called the ScrumHub) you will find a “Scrum Guide”. This is a 13 page PDF document which is free to download and is a great introduction to the roles, ceremonies and artifacts of the Scrum framework. If you are new to Scrum I suggest you spend a few minutes reading through the words that Ken (Schwaber) has put down on paper.

So head on over and check it out

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5 Scrum questions to leading lights in the industry: Issue 4: Alistair Cockburn
3/23/2009
In issue 4 of the five questions series we hear from Alistair Cockburn. Alistair is a leading agile evangelist and book author and recently presented a number of sessions at the Orlando Scrum Gathering, including the “panel of 5” open discussion with the likes of Ken Schwaber, Mike Cohn, Ron Jeffries and Jim Coplien.
Alistair is currently working alongside Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland and absorbing their thoughts and ideas, some of which are un-written. Alistair is an excellent wordsmith and is hoping to articulate in more detail some of the details of Scrum and its implementation. An example of this is the term “Scrum is a mirror” which you will see Alistair refer to in his answers below. This term refers to Scrum acting as a mirror into your organisation and identifying impediments and issues that need resolutions. So without any more delay I give you Dr. Alistair Cockburn…

A big thankyou to Alistair for taking the time to respond some quickly.

Issues in the series

Issue 1: Ron Jeffries
Issue 2: Ken Schwaber
Issue 3: Mike Cohn
Issue 4: Alistair Cockburn


Alistair Cockburn

Bio.
Alistair Cockburn was voted one of the "The All-Time Top 150 i-Technology Heroes" in 2007. He is an internationally renowned project witchdoctor and IT strategist, expert on agile development, use cases, project management, and object-oriented design, author of the Crystal agile methodologies, three Jolt-awarded books, co-author of the Agile Manifesto and the project management Declaration of Interdependence, and inventor of the Initial Response Technique massage form. He is known for his lively presentations and interactive workshops. His blog, poems, articles, and talks are available online at http://alistair.cockburn.us


Alistair's answers..



Q1. Can you describe what you would consider the top Scrum enabler in an organization?

First, willingness to look into the Scrum mirror, and second, willingness to act on what it shows.

Q2. Where do you see Scrum in 5 years time?

With very many CSMs all over the world, and with an increasing bureaucracy inside the ScrumAlliance.

Q3. What has been your toughest Scrum challenge so far?

Getting people to look into the Scrum mirror.

Q4. What makes you passionate about Scrum?

I'm not particularly passionate about Scrum. I'm passionate about helping people do better. Scrum is one tool; other tools are also helpful and also needed.

Q5. What can we learn from you about Scrum?

I watch Ken and Jeff closely and try to interpret back to the community what they're saying / doing.

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5 Scrum questions to leading lights in the industry: Issue 3: Mike Cohn
3/7/2009
In issue 3 of the five questions series we hear from Mike Cohn. Mike is the author of some of the most successful IT books, including Agile Estimating and Planning, User Stories Applied and his upcoming new book Succeeding with Agile.

A big thankyou to Mike for taking the time to squeeze these answers into his incredibly busy schedule.



Issues in the series

Issue 1: Ron Jeffries
Issue 2: Ken Schwaber
Issue 3: Mike Cohn
Issue 4: Alistair Cockburn


Mike Cohn

Bio.
Mike Cohn is the founder of Mountain Goat Software (www.mountaingoatsoftware.com), where he teaches and coaches on Scrum and agile development. He is the author of Agile Estimating and Planning, User Stories Applied for Agile Software Development, and the upcoming Succeeding with Agile: Software Development with Scrum. With more than 25 years of experience, Mike has previously been a technology executive in companies of various sizes, from startup to Fortune 40. A frequent magazine contributor and conference speaker, Mike is a founding member of the Scrum Alliance and the Agile Alliance. He can be reached at mike@mountaingoatsoftware.com


Mike's answers..



Q1. Can you describe what you would consider the top Scrum enabler in an organization?

People who want to do something better than they are doing it today. This could be a group that wants to build a product that is smaller or faster or cheaper than anyone else has ever done. Or it could be a group wants to continue to enhance their existing product or service faster, more efficiently, or with higher quality. Wherever this type of passion exists, it can be used to help Scrum take off in that organization.

Q2. Where do you see Scrum in 5 years time?

I’d like to see all of agile be the default way for doing software development. Five or so years ago a lot of the issues were around how can we plan if we’re agile and how can we do it with forty people on the project. Those issues are behind us and plenty of teams have shown us how to overcome those challenges. Today I hear a lot of questions about how do we do Scrum on globally distributed projects, how do we do it on very large projects, how do we do it within the full organization and so on. Those issues, too, will be behind us in five years.

Q3. What has been your toughest Scrum challenge so far?

I think they’re all tough. Scrum teaches us though that we overcome the challenges by breaking large obstacles into small pieces and continuously making progress.

Q4. What makes you passionate about Scrum?

I’ve always been passionate about anything to do with software. When I spend all-day programming, I would spend all evening reading about programming or doing more programming. When I started managing or running departments, I got passionate about those aspects of software development. I think I’m passionate about software development because it’s fun. It’s fun to create something, especially something as useful as a new piece of software can be.

Q5. What can we learn from you about Scrum?

The things that I learn from the teams I work with. All of the ideas I teach or write about are ones that I learned from working with different teams.

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