Videos in category Scrum


Laurie Williams: Getting to Comparative Agility

Laurie Williams: Getting to Comparative Agility

Posted in Broadcasting, Practices, Interview, XP, Scrum

Summary Laurie Williams, who heads the Software Engineering Research group at North Carolina State University, discusses her research into Agile principles and practices. Williams also talks about Comparative Agility, which is a tool to show teams where they stand in terms of the adoption of Agile practices. Comparative Agility was launched in 2007 and since that time over 400 people have used ...

Tags: Practices, XP, Scrum, Interview, Agile, InfoQ, Kanban, Adopting Agile, Agile in the Enterprise, Broadcasting, Pair Programming, ...



Transforming Businesses to Agility

Transforming Businesses to Agility

Posted in Broadcasting, Practices, Interview, Scrum

Summary M Dwyer of BigVisible Solutions talks about the process of transforming businesses to agility, including the concept of Agile localization in global efforts. Dwyer says that with distributed teams across multiple time zones and cultures it is good to establish a group of Agile missionaries to go forth and train people on Agile. He also discusses how to transfer Agile skills to the next ...

Tags: Practices, Scrum, Interview, Agile, InfoQ, Kanban, Adopting Agile, Team Collaboration, Agile in the Enterprise, Broadcasting, Agile 2010, ...


Scrum et al.

Scrum et al.

Posted in Conferences, Companies, Practices, Techtalks, Google, Scrum

Scrum is an amazingly simple process that causes many, many changes when it is implemented. This seminar presents the basic framework of Scrum and some of the implementation issues associated with it. Credits: Speaker:Ken SchwaberGoogle Tech TalksSeptember 5, 2006Ken Schwaber co-developed the Agile process, Scrum. He is a founder of the Agile Alliance and Scrum Alliance, and signatory to the Ag...

Tags: Techtalks, Google, Practices, Scrum, Conferences, Agile, Google Tech Talks, Companies


Tobias Mayer discusses WelfareCSM and Scrum

Tobias Mayer discusses WelfareCSM and Scrum

Posted in Broadcasting, Practices, Interview, Scrum

Summary Tobias Mayer talks about the philosophy behind WelfareCSM, unbounded vs bounded creativity, the application of Scrum outside of software development, Kanban vs Scrum, the benefits of fast-failing, software development as an artitistic endeavour, software craftsmanship and XP, test-driven development, and the done state. Bio Tobias Mayer is an Agile Coach and Trainer from London, UK, cur...

Tags: Practices, Scrum, Interview, Agile, TDD, InfoQ, Broadcasting, Agile2009, Scrum Gathering, Craftsmanship, CSM, ...


Bas Vodde on Large Scale Scrum

Bas Vodde on Large Scale Scrum

Posted in Broadcasting, Practices, Interview, Scrum

Summary Bas Vodde describes strategies for large teams with legacy software to adopt Scrum successfully. Bas discusses communication problems found in most component teams and why and how teams - especially large ones - should make the change to feature teams and how that change affects organizational structure. Bio Bas Vodde is interested in Scrum with a special focus on large companies and la...

Tags: Practices, Scrum, Interview, Agile, InfoQ, Agile2008, Adopting Agile, Agile in the Enterprise, Broadcasting, Scaling Agile



Managers in Scrum

Managers in Scrum

Posted in Conferences, Practices, Scrum

Summary This presentation explores how the role of managers changes in Scrum. It helps managers to lead the introduction of Scrum acting as role models. It presents leadership principles that provide concrete guidance such as servant-leadership, empirical management, empowerment and respect, quality-first and continuous improvement. Bio Roman Pichler works as an independent consultant, trainer ...

Tags: Practices, Scrum, Conferences, Agile, InfoQ, QCon, QCon London 2008, Management, Adopting Agile


Self-Organization: The Secret Sauce for Improving your Scrum team

Self-Organization: The Secret Sauce for Improving your Scrum team

Posted in Conferences, Companies, Development, Practices, Techtalks, Google, Scrum

High performance depends on the self-organizing capability of teams. Understanding how this works and how to avoid destroying self-organization is a challenge. Until you understand complex adaptive systems and how Toyota works it is difficult to improve team velocity. Jeff will discuss three core topics: Shock therapy as a strategy for booting up teams. The Cosmic Stopping Problem, otherwise kn...

Tags: Techtalks, Google, Practices, Scrum, Conferences, engEDU, Education, Google Tech Talks, Development, Companies



Embrace Uncertainty

Embrace Uncertainty

Posted in Conferences, Practices, XP, Scrum

Summary In this original presentation from the Communitech Agile Event, Jeff Patton, winner of the Agile Alliance’s 2007 Gordon Pask Award, explains why one needs to embrace uncertainty in order to succeed with his/her Agile project and how to avoid some of the common mistakes leading to project failure. Bio Jeff has focused on Agile approaches since working on an early XP team in 2000. I...

Tags: Practices, XP, Scrum, Conferences, Agile, InfoQ, Iteration, Agile Techniques, quality