Join SUGSA Cape Town on 2 February when we have Release Planning with Scrum: Controlling the Chaos. When: 2 February 2012, 6:00PM Topic: Release Planning with Scrum: Controlling the Chaos                     Sign up: Please sign up here in order to help us with catering. Venue: Allan Gray Portswood [...]

High quality software that meets the business needs can only come from an exceptional development team. Lets talk about the secret sauce needed to make your team exceptional. Stand-ups every day? Check. Impediment-removing Scrum Master? Check. Product Owner who understands prioritising? Check. Teams that deliver working code every sprint? Check. Review every sprint? Check. Retrospective [...]

The Cape Town chapter held it’s 4th event last night. We meet at Great Westerford, with venue and food kindly sponsored by Intec and drinks sponsored by Scrum Sense. Hilton Giesenow, Development Manager at 3Fifteen and Microsoft MVP spoke on continuous integration (CI). He spoke of CI as a continuum and just one of a [...]

After a hiatus, here are some scrum links for you to expand your knowledge and hone your craft. I found Jeff Patton’s ‘Story Map‘ to be a useful discussion on an alternative to the 1-dimensional product backlog. It was also the basis of one of the Open Spaces sessions at the recent Orlando gathering. This [...]

For those whose wallets can buck the recession, the upcoming Scrum gathering offers an impressive line-up of speakers. It’s guaranteed to be awesome! Ken Schwaber, co-founder of Scrum Jeff Sutherland, co-founder of Scrum Gregory Balestrero, President & CEO of PMI Mike Cohn, Mountain Goat Software Alistair Cockburn, Humans & Technology, Inc. Ron Jeffries, one of 3 founders [...]