Planet Scrum

Certified ScrumMaster Rev. Arline Sutherland with Serge Mathieu-Mahias of La Cremerie

Xebia France hosted an excellent ScrumMaster Certification course at La Defense in Paris. What a great location for a CSM course! Not only the French, but some Danes, Poles and Germans were there. The September course is already full and the December course is filling up quickly. I expect more and more people will fly in from around Europe to enjoy the good French food and ambience.

For example, a great French…

HICSS paper submissions are in and we are seeking Agile experts to review these papers. All reviews must be complete by August 15. This is your chance for an earlybird view on some of the latest Agile thinking. Contact Jeff Sutherland if you want to review one or more of these papers. Please include paper numbers in your email.

179 - An analytical survey of “on-site customer” practice in Extreme Programming
189 - Scalable Dynamic Clustering
277 - Analyzing the Modes of Communication in Agile…

At the last Scrum Trainer’s Retreat in Boston, MA, Lowell Lindstrom presented a 30-minute exercise on Affinity Estimating. Kane Mar has written a short blog entry on this technique for sizing a large Product Backlog here. I would like to add some context for the exercise and a step-by-step that I have found [...]

I attended your training class a couple of months ago. We are continuing along with our scrum process, and we are learning a lot. I have one question - hope it is ok to ask. We did story point estimation as part of our team's Sprint planning, and came up with the total story points that we were going to tackle for the sprint. As we started working on some of the tasks, we realized that they were more difficult then we had originally estimated. Also, some people finished their…

read more