Cape Town Scrum Gathering 2011: Outline

All of us at Information Logistics took the break from routine to take part in the Scrum Safari. My mind's still processing the influx of conversations from last week's gathering in Somerset West. Excellent event as usual, well done to the committee and everyone else who helped out in some way. And thanks to all who came along and made...

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Day One at the Gatehouse

For the last while we've been building and putting the finishing touches on our new offices at the Gatehouse in Century City. The main event is three 20 square metre team rooms. The rooms are visually connected with big glass windows but have closing doors for when things get rowdy (or sensitive). It's all shiny and new-smelling, the aircon/heating...

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Our own medicine

This is the third in my Agile Contracting series. As with the previous post, this is a verbatim copy of my speech notes, with some mark-up. [DL] It's about the Why Time for our own medicine [mime spoon] joke about mirroring. Well, we're working towards alignment, but we also feel the need for a contract. It's time for some of our own medicine....

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Done since last stand-up

In the past we've had the problem of "zoodling" at stand-up ("What to do when scrum doesn't work" Henrik Kniberg SG Cape Town 2010) because you're not quite sure which tasks you've done in the last 24 hours. One suggestion is only moving tasks in standup; I find this most unsatisfying. It's great to be able to move that damn task in the heady...

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