Posts Tagged ‘Scrum’
What is a ‘Scrum Master’? – Scrum Guide
We’ve converted the ‘Scrum Master’ definition from the 2013 Scrum Guide into cartoon form to illustrate the role of a Scrum Master in a Scrum team. (from the 2013 Scrum Guide) The Scrum Master The Scrum Master is responsible for ensuring Scrum is understood and enacted. Scrum Masters do this by ensuring that the Scrum…
Read MoreAgile in the Enterprise – Lessons Learned in the Real World
Happy New Year from the SSW TV team! We’re kickstarting the year by releasing a video special. It’s an in-depth interview featuring a real life product owner who talks to us about his perspectives using Agile on a large scale Enterprise project. SSW has just finished 28 weeks building the first release of a transport…
Read MoreSSW’s FireBootCamp – Week 2 in review video (Scrum Sprint Reviews)
The second video produced by SSW TV for SSW’s FireBootCamp, a new .NET training course in Sydney (and available in more locations.) Check out the video above to see how they did in their second week of the Boot Camp. You can read a more detailed breakdown of the week on the official FireBootCamp blog.
Read MoreSSW User Group Special: Agile Olympics Sydney 2015
The Agile Dutchman Jesse Houwing, a Scrum.org Trainer, ALM Ranger, and Agile/ALM Consultant, will be leading the fun with Scrum, using interactive games such as Ball point game Chair game The interactive sail boat Scrum Simulation with Lego Bricks You’ll see these guys play ball, do some mystifying things with chairs, and build a Lego…
Read MoreHacking Agile – Best Parts of Agile | Gerard Beckerleg at Xamarin Hack Day
In this short presentation, Gerard Beckerleg – SSW Solution Architect – shows us how we can use Agile to more effectively develop our mobile applications. This presentation was part of the Sydney Xamarin Hack Day line-up. Head over to the Xamarin Hack Day website to apply to attend (or even run your own hack day!) Let…
Read MoreHow To Scale Scrum for Large Software Teams | The Nexus Framework from Scrum.org
In this video SSW Chief Architect Adam Cogan sits down with Scrum.org Team Member Steve Porter. They walk through the new Nexus Framework, an Agile framework designed for large scale software development. Take the Poll! Are you excited for the new Nexus Framework?
Read MoreThe Development Team – Scrum Guide
We’ve converted the ‘Development Team’ definition from the 2013 Scrum Guide into cartoon form to illustrate the role of the Development Team in Scrum. The Development Team The Development Team consists of professionals who do the work of delivering a potentially releasable Increment of “Done” product at the end of each Sprint. Only members of the…
Read MoreThe Sprint Retrospective – Scrum Guide
We’ve converted the ‘The Sprint Retrospective’ definition from the 2013 Scrum Guide into cartoon form to illustrate how The Sprint Retrospective works in scrum process. The Sprint Retrospective The Sprint Retrospective is an opportunity for the Scrum Team to inspect itself and create a plan for improvements to be enacted during the next Sprint. The Sprint Retrospective occurs…
Read MoreAvoiding Agile Anti-patterns with #NoProjects and #AgileManagementTransformation
Agile project methodologies are widely adopted by the IT industry, but the project failure rates remain consistent. John will share his experience of common Systemic Agile anti-patterns, examine the underlying causes of these failures and present remedies in order to #MakeAgileGreatAgain.
Read MoreRapidly Producing Real World IoT Projects – presented by Peter Cole [Microsoft]
Peter was given the challenge of producing a low cost customer tracking solution for the Microsoft Technology Centre in Sydney. The team was astounded at how he made a working prototype in just 3 days, using open source technology, RFID tags and Azure IoT services. Watch this presentation and see how you can do it…
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