Australian Scrum Community

June 2008

Shall we get together?

Scrum Gathering 2008

This year’s Gathering will be held in Stockholm, Sweden on 20-22 October 2008. More information, conference schedules and registration details are available at the Scrum Alliance website.

May 2008

The Road from Project Manager to Agile Coach

April 2008

Perth - Discount for CSM Training

News from the Trainers gathering.

Sydney - Alistair Cockburn Visit 24 April 2008

Scrum Primer

Smelly Scrum

Agile 2008 Proposals for Review

March 2008

What is a ScrumMaster Worth?

Usage Statistics for this Website

Some Web Articles

Planned Outage Notice

Lessons from a Yahoo Scrum Rollout

Freshly Minted CSMs

February 2008

Perth CSM Course Proposed

January 2008

Should Tasks be Estimated?

Scrum Training for Perth

CSM Training Update

Scrum at Gigaspaces

December 2007

London Calling

Mind Maps / User Stories

Agile Scope Creep

Big Dave Thomas presenting in Sydney and Canberra

Video Summary of the Scrum Gathering

The Nokia Test

November 2007

Definitions of Done

Fall Scrum Gathering Report #1

Schubert's Productivity

Scrum – Use more paper!

Off to the Gathering

CSM Training - Australia and New Zealand

A compelling risk management presentation

October 2007

Admin: Site Upgrade

Agile on YouTube

September 2007

Why you don't want to use SCRUM

CSM Certificate Generation and New Logos

(less than) comprehensive list of scrum blogs

Scrum and CMMI

August 2007

Agile2007 presentations reviewed at BarCampSydney

Extending Sprints

Venue Set for Fall 2007 Scrum Gathering

July 2007

Review: The Enterprise and Scrum

Managing Software Development

Correction re Australia's first Certified Scrum Practitioner

Origins of Scrum

New Book - The Enterprise and Scrum

June 2007

Scrum Gathering (London, 14-15 Nov, 2007) call for presentations.

2nd Annual State of Agile Development Survey

Certified Scrum Coach draft proposal

Scott Ambler on Agile Certifications

Not Quite Scrum Words

May 2007

Brian Marick shakes up the Agile Alliance.

Defocusing a scrum

Agile in CIO magazine

CSM Training - Melbourne, Brisbane, Sydney

Combined SyXPAC and Scrum Gathering

Pitching Agile to Senior Management

Scrum Community Events Survey

Sydney Scrum Gathering Monday 14th May

On Agile Procurement

April 2007

Melbourne User Group

Canberra Agile Interest Group Starting Up

More Scrum Gatherings

A Team Charter Template

Must read article on Daily Scrums

Dealing with Conflict in Agile Projects

Scrum Certification

Update and Apology

March 2007

Book Review - Getting to Yes

Photo from February talk by Joseph Pelrine

Questions on Implementing Scrum

February 2007

Free Presentation by Mary Poppendieck - February 19

January 2007

Free Presentation by Joseph Pelrine - February 5

Next ScrumMaster Certification Course - February 6-7

Scrum Refresher Course - February 8

December 2006

ScrumMaster Certification and Refresher Courses in early February 2007

Dreaming of a Scrum-built Vista...

Goals for this Website

Scrum and XP from the trenches: A Scrum case study

T-Shirt Design

Lean Software Development - Review

The Story Behind this Website

A short-ish description of how this site came to be, and why it wasn’t a one man effort.

Agile Retrospectives - Review

Training Opportunities in February 2007

David Hoehn is offering Scrum training and consulting in Sydney in February 2007.

The First Aussie Scrum Gathering

November 2006

Sydney Scrum Pub Gathering Is On!

Writing Clear Code

Differences between software development and traditional engineering

Agile or Ad hoc?

Simon Brown, “Are you really agile or just ad hoc?”

Agile Quality: A Canary in a Coal Mine

A video of Ken Schwaber’s presentation at Agile 2006 is available at the InfoQ website where he discusses Scrum and on code quality as a corporate asset.

Another Scrum Gathering in the USA

Scrum in 100 Words

A CEO level summary of Scrum, suitable for a CEO, in less than 100 words.

Case Study - Implementing Scrum

Richard Banks tells the story of his disastrous attempt to implement Scrum, and how he turned it around to be a success.

Test Driven Development Case Studies

A Microsoft Research paper looks at the cost/benefit of test-driven development.

Sydney - Scrum Engagement

Australian Scrum Services

October 2006

Reinterpreting Agile at Microsoft

Agile Sense of Humour

Judging by a few recent blog posts it is important for anyone doing agile software development to have a good sense of humour.

Google Tech Talk Video

Link to Ken Schwaber’s Google Tech Talk video

Scrum Books

Agile Software Development with Scrum, and Agile Project Management with Scrum