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 [...]

There is nothing quite as impressive as a herd of buffalo stampeding through the veld, nothing except a high performance Scrum team that is. This track, aptly named the Buffalo Herd is for the people who do the real work in Scrum: developers, architects, testers and other team members. Not only will this track feature [...]

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 [...]