Synopsis: Join us for some fun and learning to end off 2010. Bring your most perplexing agile predicaments. We’ll act them out and all try our hand at facilitating your problems away, or at least giving you a few ideas to try for yourself. Objectives: Practise facilitation techniques Get ideas for dealing with different situations [...]

A new voice in our local community, Rian van der Merwe spoke eloquently (and with good humour) from his perspective about the role of the Product Owner. Illustrated with lots of stories about the practical challenges in his role at Yola, what came through strongly was although they may not do Scrum “by the book” the spirit [...]

Alacrity is proud to sponsor our November event in Cape Town. Alacrity have said their reason for sponsoring is: “We are passionate about the information technology sector in South Africa, one of our brand values is knowledge building and sharing. Our sponsorship involvement with the knowledge communities is driven by this value. Through participation and [...]

We have two exciting events for the month of November. First up is the (re)launch of the Johannesburg Scrum User Group on 2nd November in Sandton with the topic of “Navigating the Agile flamewars” with speaker Marius de Beer. Our monthly Cape Town meeting takes place on 4th November with Rian van der Merwe talking [...]

Sponsored by: Where: Allan Gray Portswood office in the Presentation Room on the third floor. You can download a map here. Everyone parking in the Portswood parking area will have to pay for their own parking tickets. There is also parking available in Beach road. When: 7 Oct, 6PM Topic: Growing Agile Coaches – a facilitated [...]