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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REMINDER 1: Scrum User Group South Africa: Gauteng Event # 5: 13 August 2009

proudly sponsored by Kaizania and Momentum

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Event Update:

We mentioned that we may have a Kanban case-study, and yes, we can now confirm that we do! A 15 min case study on the effect of Kanban used for service support within a Development team…

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Please join us for another SUGSA Gauteng event planned for 13 August 2009 at Momentum. Loads of people have already registered!

Due to feedback from the past two events, the topic for this event is “Agile Engineering Practices”

The committee is trying its best to get a possible case study on the use of Kanban and Scrum together for the evening, and will keep you updated as these progresses.

Agenda:

Welcome
Agile Engineering Practices – Lionel Bisschoff
Kanban Case-Study
Open Discussion and sharing of agile war-stories
Agile Book Review
Agile Prize Give-Away
Close-out

When: 13 August 2009
Time: 18:00 for 18:30
Venue: Momentum Auditorium 1, Centurion (click for map)
Event registration:
http://www.scrum.org.za/resources/event-registration/event-registration-gauteng

As usual, proudly sponsored by Kaizania, finger-food and drinks will be served on arrival and after the event. There will be ample time and opportunity to meet up with old friends and make some new friends in the Agile community!

Forward this to your friends, colleagues and anyone else who you think might either benefit from Agile or have an Agile war story to share!

For any additional information, please feel free to contact Arrie van der Dussen on 083 700 2181 oragile@kaizania.co.za.

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Scrum User Group South Africa: Gauteng Event # 5: 13 August 2009

Proudly sponsored by Kaizania and Momentum

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Please join us for another SUGSA Gauteng event planned for 13 August 2009 at Momentum.

Due to feedback from the past two events, the topic for this event is “Agile Engineering Practices”

The committee is trying its best to get a possible case study on the use of Kanban and Scrum together for the evening, and will keep you updated as these progresses.

Agenda:

Welcome
Agile Engineering Practices – Lionel Bisschoff
Open Discussion and sharing of agile war-stories
Agile Book Review
Agile Prize Give-Away
Close-out

When: 13 August 2009
Time: 18:00 for 18:30
Venue: Momentum Auditorium 1, Centurion (click for map)
Event registration:
http://www.scrum.org.za/resources/event-registration/event-registration-gauteng

As usual, proudly sponsored by Kaizania, finger-food and drinks will be served on arrival and after the event. There will be ample time and opportunity to meet up with old friends and make some new friends in the Agile community!

Forward this to your friends, colleagues and anyone else who you think might either benefit from Agile or have an Agile war story to share!

For any additional information, please feel free to contact Arrie van der Dussen on 083 700 2181 or agile@kaizania.co.za.

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Announcing the first South African Scrum Day!

We’re excited to tell you that the Scrum User Group of South Africa
(SUGSA) is planning the first ever South African Scrum Day, in Cape
Town on 01 September, 2009. Yes, the first of Spring!

More details…

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