Kicking off with the latest from Jeff Sutherland. Jeff recently gave a talk on ‘Scrum Shock Therapy’. Similar to the approach apparently used in MySpace, Jeff advocates a ‘shock and awe approach’ described in this blog post. It’s kind of a rough change management process and will likely cause some unhappiness. My take is that [...]

Twas a blistering night in Cape Town, and nearly 50 newbies gathered to hear the tale of ‘Scrum’… Mike Freislich, our MC, kicked off with some feedback on what the user group committee has been up to. If you’re reading this on the new site, then you probably know about some of them already. We’ve [...]

Mike Freislich kicks us off with his first article submission to the link page “Version Control for Multiple Agile Teams” – Henrik Kniberg Henrik Kniberg has a wealth of good Scrum literature behind him. Part of the strength of his writing style is that he keeps it real and practical by pointing out mistakes that [...]

We kick off this week’s link fest with sex orgies. Jurgen Appelo’s post on how scrum uses peer pressure in a positive way can be found here. I enjoy his writing and he uses a cool technique for creating a scrum team, by getting them to cook dinner for him. I like it ‘cos I [...]

For those whose wallets can buck the recession, the upcoming Scrum gathering offers an impressive line-up of speakers. It’s guaranteed to be awesome! Ken Schwaber, co-founder of Scrum Jeff Sutherland, co-founder of Scrum Gregory Balestrero, President & CEO of PMI Mike Cohn, Mountain Goat Software Alistair Cockburn, Humans & Technology, Inc. Ron Jeffries, one of 3 founders [...]