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How to make your Dev team exceptional

High quality software that meets the business needs can only come from an exceptional development team. Lets talk about the secret sauce needed to make your team exceptional. Stand-ups every day? Check. Impediment-removing Scrum Master? Check. Product Owner who understands prioritising? Check. Teams that deliver working code every sprint? Check. Review every sprint? Check. Retrospective [...]

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SGZA Presentations and videos

Below you will find the contacts for speakers, their presentations and where they exist, the videos. We will continue to add to this as the presentations become available   Name Topic Video Andrew Coote et al Agile – The Jazz Manifesto Annu Augustine A product owners guide to saying ‘No’ Video Link Aslam Khan The [...]

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SGZA Keynote

Post-Gathering

Well, it’s all over (until next year). A record breaking event for us, spanning two cities, three days, 260 people, four continents and eighteen speakers. Below you will find all the pics from the Cape Town event

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Event Report: Scrum at Allan Gray

On the rather swampy night of 3 Feb, a capacity crowd squeezed into our sponsor DVT‘s offices to hang on every word from our speakers.  It was a fascinating insight into a company that is now three years into their Scrum journey. For those who were somewhat new to Scrum hearing this story and what the [...]

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Feedback on Coaching Circles

In October we held an event to talk about how to grow agile coaches in South Africa. One of the outcomes of that session was a coaching circle that started with 8 enthusiastic agilists keen to grow their skills. From the retrospective we held it seems that learning and fun was had by all, and [...]

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