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2011 SUGSA Committee Nominations

Nominations for the 2011 SUGSA Committee, to serve from 01 March 2010 to 28 February 2011, are now open to all SUGSA members.

If you are interested in joining the 2011 SUGSA Committee, the outgoing Committee invites you to submit a short bio and motivation to info@scrum.org.za by no later than 16H00 on 23rd February 2010. Please note that this applies to all existing Committee members who wish to make themselves available for re-election.

After the nomination deadline has passed, the list of nominees with their bio and motivation will be circulated to all SUGSA members, and voting will take place electronically over seven days. Each SUGSA member is entitled to vote for up to three nominees. The committee will be chosen based on up to five nominees who have received the most votes.

Once votes have been tallied, the outgoing Committee will advise you of the successful nominees who will form the 2011 SUGSA Committee.

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The heart of scrum

Tobias Mayer is perhaps one of the more influential scrum trainers. (He’s definitely one of the most provocative.) His blog, “Agile Anarchy” has a new post about the importance of the scrum board to the scrum process as a whole.

I wanted to jump up and down when I read it. It speaks to me about why I hate the whole idea of an electronic board.

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He also links to Xavier Quesada Allue’s blog, which echoes this practical approach to scrum and teams. I absolutely love his “Elements of taskboard design” which has real practical tips on what you can do to make your task board more effective. And he made me aware of “Super Sticky Post It’s“.

Now I’m off to convince Loren, Mistress of Stationery, to order us some of those. Sometimes the best tools are already out there.

Scrum(tm) – a 3M product

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Why Scrum works

The adoption of Scrum as a project management process in IT projects has been extremely rapid. This is because of the fundamental principle that Scrum embraces is that software development if unpredictable. Scrum uses an iterative approach with short but focused iterations. Scrum formalizes the informal “do what is needed to be done” approach that is already followed in the software industry. People that use Scrum have seen huge productivity gains (up to 600% claimed by some). I will attempt to outline the reasons for Scrums success below.

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