http://www.scrum.org.za Connecting South African Scrum practitioners Mon, 01 Mar 2010 07:21:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Following a call for nominations to the new 2011 SUGSA Committee, a total of 5 candidates put forward their credentials during the time allotted in terms of the SUGSA election procedure. Because 5 elected members ideally constitute a SUGSA Committee, the outgoing Committee deemed it unnecessary to hold a round of ... http://www.scrum.org.za/uncategorized/new-sugsa-committee When: 4 March 2010, 6PM Venue: Bandwidth Barn, 125 Heerengracht Street, Cape Town Cost: Free Sign up for this exciting event here. Topic: UX and User Centered Design in Agile Development with Phillip Barrett The most reliable way to achieve usability and deliver the right user experience is with user-centred design.It’s a collection of tools ... http://www.scrum.org.za/events/ux-agile 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 ... http://www.scrum.org.za/articles/2011-sugsa-committee-nominations When: 4 February 2010, 7PM Venue: Bandwidth Barn, 5th Floor Buitengracht Centre, 125 Buitengracht Street Topic: Kanban Software Development with David Anderson David is credited with the first implementation of a kanban process for software development in 2005. David was a founder of the agile movement through his involvement in the creation of ... http://www.scrum.org.za/events/david-anderson-on-kanban-for-software-development The SUGSA committee invites you to Scrum and beer, a year end function for scrum practitioners. We want to end the year off with a bang. As our last event for 2009, we invite all SUGSA members to join us on 2 December at Paulaner Brauhaus at the Waterfront. This will ... http://www.scrum.org.za/events/scrum-beer-2-december-2009 We had a great 'lunch and learn' session today. Many thanks to BB&D for hosting the event and providing fantastic snacks. Topics covered in the Open Spaces format included: 'What is the role of the analyst on an agile team?', 'Is TDD a design activity?', 'How self-organising should a scrum team ... http://www.scrum.org.za/events/post-lunchlearn-retro Our next Cape Town event is a scrum lunch and learn. It will take place on 5 November 2009 at BB&D offices in Century City. After the success of our last event which used the 'Open Spaces Conference' format to organise the discussion, we'd like to try it again. We will start ... http://www.scrum.org.za/events/scrum-lunch-and-learn-cape-town-5-nov The long awaited videos from South Africa's first Scrum Day are now finally available. We have created a channel on Vimeo which you can find here. Should you have any other questions, please email scrumday@scrum.org.za http://www.scrum.org.za/links/scrum-day-videos Well, we had a full house today at South Africa's first Scrum Day. Keep an eye out, we will be releasing the videos shortly. The scrum day presentations will be made available here. The first ones are: Business Track Charl Dreyer on "Product Ownership" Richard Bailey on 'How I thought I could be a ... http://www.scrum.org.za/events/scrum-day-presentations 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. ... http://www.scrum.org.za/links/the-heart-of-scrum