» XP http://www.scrum.org.za Connecting the South African Scrum community Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:30:01 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 How to make your Dev team exceptional http://www.scrum.org.za/events/how-to-make-your-dev-team-exceptional http://www.scrum.org.za/events/how-to-make-your-dev-team-exceptional#comments Tue, 18 Oct 2011 12:49:34 +0000 Carlo Kruger http://www.scrum.org.za/?p=2629 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 every sprint? Check.

Does this make your business truly Agile? For me there are a couple of checklist items missing:

Development practices that deliver high quality code?

A team of developers who understand one another and operate as a cohesive unit?

Team productivity doesn’t drop when a particular team member is away?

How would you answer? How would your developers answer?

It’s bring-a-dev-day at SUGSA! In fact bring your whole development team.

About Austin Fagan

I work for Unboxed Consulting.

I started writing software in 1999. I think I’m as bad now as I was then. So I don’t code now, my team keeps me as far from the codebase as they can, they shudder at the thought of me coding. I still can’t help being passionate about development. Weird.

I’ve been lucky enough to be exposed to Agile techniques and great development practice since 2006 and I’ve been boring people silly about both since.

 

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]]> http://www.scrum.org.za/events/how-to-make-your-dev-team-exceptional/feed 1 Scrum Gathering in Orlando http://www.scrum.org.za/articles/scrum-gathering-in-orlando http://www.scrum.org.za/articles/scrum-gathering-in-orlando#comments Tue, 10 Feb 2009 08:55:19 +0000 peter http://www.scrum.org.za/?p=246 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 of Extreme Programming
Jim “Cope” Coplien, Gertrud & Cope Chet Hendrickson, early adopter of Extreme Programming

I am particularly encouraged by the range of people and institutions that are engaging with the Scrum Alliance and embracing Scrum…from XP and Crystal to the PMI!

For more information visit http://www.scrumalliance.org/events/19–orlando-scrum-gathering

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