Scrum in Dusseldorf

Hi Scrum community,

On 3-June Dusseldorf Scrum Users met for the second time to discuss and share experiences with Scrum. The Dusseldorf Scrum community is constantly growing, and for the first time people from outside the software industry joined the group. We talked about the Munich Scrum Day in May, discussed lessons learned from a distributed Scrum project and (very interesting!) learned how to build car seats with Scrum!

In the 3rd meeting we would like to discuss and plan a larger Scrum event in North Rhine-Westphalia to spread the word about Scrum. Everybody practicing Scrum or interested in Scrum is invited to join us:

VENUE: Dusseldorf (exact location to be decided)
DATE: to be decided: http://www.doodle.com/ay6bk6zmezm6nnqq
TIME: 7 PM

AGENDA:
- Discussion and planning of a larger Scrum info event in North Rhine-Westphalia

Please feel free to propose additional agenda items.

Agile: “Hello, I’m agile!”
Waterfall: “Hello, I’m Waterfall!”

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“Scrum is not fault-tolerant! It causes too many issues! 
Hence Scrum does not work!” 

                                      – anonymous ignorant

Of all the ignorant statements about Scrum I heard during the last weeks, this is my favorite one. It clearly shows that some people still don’t get the principles of Scrum: Scrum is not meant to be fault-tolerant. If it was, projects and teams would not be able to improve. Instead, Scrum has been designed to make everything clearly visible which is blocking the team from getting their work done (to deliver working software at the end of each Sprint) and from becoming more productive.

If  you are new to Scrum and about to apply Scrum to your project or organization, expect issues (we call them impediments) to come up. If you don’t find any impediments, you are not looking hard enough! Keep asking yourself, the team and the product owner what could be done to make the project or the organization more productive. 

And when you start hunting down these impediments, prepare yourself for some hard and sometimes frustrating time. As Scrum practitioners keep saying, “Scrum is easy to understand but difficult to implement!”.

Please read “Sprint reviews are waste of time” for an example of why it is vital to resolve impediments.

Peter Beck (Certified Scrum Trainer, http://www.peterbeck.de/about/) will facilitate a Certified Scrum Master class in Dusseldof on 18th/19th of June 2009. Click here for details: http://www.peterbeck.de/168/certified-scrummaster-training-de-dusseldorf/

Today my client noticed that we are using adhesive tape to make our sticky notes really stick. Without adhesive tape they fell of the taskboard all the time. He pointed me to stickies with enhanced adhevise: Post-it(R) Super Stickies. They keep sticking onalmost all surfaces. Looks like a good solution to get rid of this extra adhesive tape which is just a waste of time.

Hi Scrum community,

At the beginning of April, Scrum Users from the Düsseldorf area met for the first time. As we received good feedback from the participants, we would like to set up a second meeting. Everybody practicing Scrum or interested in Scrum is invited to join us:

VENUE: Sapient GmbH, Düsseldorf (map)
DATE: 03-June-2009
TIME: 7 PM
To attend this event, please go to this Doodle pool

AGENDA:
- Report of Munich ScrumDay on 6-May
- Distributed Scrum: Lessons Learned
- Discussion about Scrum info event in North Rhine-Westphalia

Please feel free to propose additional agenda items. After the “official” part of this meeting, we could visit one of the many bars / restaurants located in the Düsseldorf Media Habour.

This is a short summary of the 1st Düsseldorf Scrum meeting on 3-Apr-2009.

• 7 Scrum users from different companies met to discuss their Scrum experience. It was a great experience which the group would like to continue in the future.  
• We agreed to meet again after the Scrum Day Munich which will take place on 6-May-2009.
• In the next meeting we would like to cover the following topics:
  • Report of the Scrum Day Munich
  • Scrum field report 
• Time and venue of our next meeting will be announced on this blog

If you are looking for blogs and articles about Scrum or Agile, have a look at Alltop.com, the latest venture of Guy Kawasaki. Alltop is an “online magazine rack” of popular topics. You will find a great overview of Scrum blogs on http://agile.alltop.com/

I am happy to announce the first Scrum gathering in Düsseldorf, Germany. Everyone interested in Scrum or practicing Scrum is invited to join this open event.

Purpose: Meet-and-greet, knowledge exchange, networking
Objective: Talk about establishing a regular Scrum gathering in Düsseldorf
Date: Friday, 3-April-2009
Time: 19:00 h
Venue: Brauerei Schumacher, Oststraße 123, 40210 Düsseldorf (see Google maps below)

If you like to attend, please subscribe using this doodle poll. In case you have any questions or comments, please feel free to contact me any time.
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