Australian Scrum Community

Hi All,

One of the biggest challanges we face in introducing Scrum to an organisation is how to begin. Who do we need to involve the the begining, is normally underestimated and where the majority of agile failures fall short.

The message that we give to groups like a Project Control Board, our stakeholders, architecture, etc are vital to our success. Agility is required throughout the organisation and Scrum is the best framework to communicate and manage the level of flexibility we require in modern day software development.

On a recent project within nabCapital (a division of NAB) we concentrated on trying to address this fundamental problem. The solution was to be very transparent on our message and how we communicated progress.

I am in Sydney next week to present my work at a breakfast seminar (free admission). If you would like to come along and listen please feel free. Details are on the following link:

Invitation: Renewtek ‘Becoming Agile’ Breakfast Workshops

If you have any questions you can contact me on 0437 696 365.

Regards,
Martin Kearns ( CSC + CST )

Hello All,

I have been struggling sometimes with how to get people to work together in a brain storming environment to develop the basis of a project going forward.

User Stories have been a major help in my quest to understand the basic requirements quickly. Sometimes though this does not seem to be enough, Stories are happening to early in the exercise.

Then I came across the following link.

This method just assists in breaking down project into functionality groupings rather quickly.

For more indepth knowledge read this.

Let me know what you think !!

Regards,
Martin.

Guys,

I am trying to organise an Agile Interest group in Melbourne, I have been able to acquire the use of some premises and free food !!!

If you interested in agile methods and interested in creating an Agile Community please give me a call. I would like to organise an initial meeting where we can discuss the idea in a bit more details.

Martin ( 0437 696365 )