It has been quite a start to the year alright and we missed our ordinary last Tues of the month event for the JHB Scrum usergroup. We have pinned down our next topic though which is sure to be a catalyst for some heavy debates. Topic The use of Pivotal Tracker and Jira in Scrum [...]

When: 25 January 2011, 5:30PM Venue: Discovery Health, 155 West Street, Sandton, Ground Floor 155 West Auditorium, Johannesburg Topic: SCRUM 101 FOR NOOBS The presenters, Kevin Shine & Tania van Wyk de Vries (also members of the SUGSA commitee), will have a discussion about the basics of the scrum framework and some lessons they have [...]

SUGSA Johannesburg When: 25 January 2011, 5:45PM Venue: Discovery Health, 155 West Street, Sandton, Ground Floor 155 West Auditorium, Johannesburg Topic: To be announced This event is the second chapter of SUGSA JHB event. We have collected input from all who attended the launch on 2 November 2010 and we are planning to select 1-2 of the most popular [...]

The 1st official SUGSA Johannesburg scrum gathering was held last night at Discovery Health in Sandton. Marius gave an excellent talk on agile and the various flavours available, such as kanban and scrum. The talk focused on the tools at your disposal in the various agile approaches and stressed not getting tangled in wondering which [...]