SCRUM - Comunidade Portuguesa de Scrum.

The Boss Who Breaks All the Rules

tiagonmas — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 22:48:00 GMT

Presented a talk at the Scrum Gathering Portugal 2011 called “The Boss Who Breaks All the Rules”

http://www.slideshare.net/tiagonmas/the-boss-who-breaks-all-the-rules

For 25 years, Ricardo Semler has been putting into practice what increasing numbers of modern management gurus are now preaching. He heads a democratic company, Semco, where employees set their hours, determine their salaries and choose their bosses. In this session we will talk about the main management changes that Semco introduced, which are very aligned with the agile mindset. We’ll also hear from managers of five companies on their real and concrete experience in putting some of these concepts in practice.

Invited speakers for this session: Rui Pedro Alves (Partner at Rupeal), Jurgen Appelo (Book author “Management 3.0”), João Pedro Martins (CTO at Create.IT), Alexandre Magno (Principal at AdaptWorks) and Miguel Muñoz Duarte (Partner at Imatch)

This presentation is based on the book called Maverick: Maverick!: The Success Story Behind the World's Most Unusual Workplace

Certified ScrumDeveloper - Agile Development Practices training – com Jim Newkirk criador do nUnit

tiagonmas — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 19:16:00 GMT

Este curso hands-on tem como objectivo familiarizar os programadores com as metodologias ágeis de desenvolvimento de Software. Serão abordados tópicos como a arquitectura e desenho ágil, Test Driven Development (TDD), Refactoring, Continous Integration, colaboração em equipas de desenvolvimento ágil entre outros. O curso inclui os tópicos que levam à certificação oficial Certified Scrum Developer pela Scrum Alliance.

Jim Newkirk, Director of Development na Microsoft Corporation, liderou o desenvolvimento do NUnit, foi o responsável do CodePlex e autor de diversos livros sobre desenvolvimento de software. É também membro do board da Agile Alliance. saiba mais sobre este curso aqui!

7,8 e 9 de FEVEREIRO 2010, Sala de Formação Microsoft

Pode ainda registar-se para os vários cursos certificados que estão associados a este encontro, como SCRUM Master, SCRUM Product Owner, etc.
saiba mais informações sobre os cursos disponíveis.

TechEd Europe 2010

João Pedro "jota" Martins : Scrum — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 15:50:51 GMT

Back from TechEd in Berlin , a great week with great technology. I focused my interests around Architecture, Azure , AppFabric (hosting WF/WCF) and BizTalk, but the talks that I liked the most were in other technologies, such as PowerPivot (amazing session by Rafal Lukawiecki., where he opened an Excel file with 101 million rows while using around 200 Megs of RAM), Umbraco (a surprisingly interesting Open Source CMS) and oData (feed-based info distribution and management). Also attended varied...(read more)

"Como gerir projectos impossíveis com agilidade" - talk no 1º Ignite Portugal

tiagonmas — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 11:18:00 GMT

Ontem, no 1º Ignite Portugal, fiz uma apresentação sobre as metodologias ágeis.

Ignite Portugal é um conjunto de eventos abertos à participação de todos que giram em torno de apresentações sobre temas como inovação, criatividade, empreendedorismo ou tecnologia, em que os apresentadores têm apenas 5 minutos para falar, com 20 slides que rodam automaticamente a cada 15 segundos.

A apresentação está no slideshare.

Mais detalhes aqui

Quick Start to Sprint Backlog template

tiagonmas — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 08:41:23 GMT

I started using Mitch Lacey's Sprint Backlog Templates in our scrum projects. Here is a small guide to help someone new to it quickly start using it.

A. Preparing the ground  - The initial tasks you need to do to prepare the template for your project:

1. Fill in the team roster. The Alias will be used in the other sheets (Driver column in the Sprint Sheet). The alias should not changed after the other sheets are filled (unless you change sprint data - Column Sprint!$F).

Fill in any extra information about the team. All information besides the alias will be purely informational.

Also in this sheet, you should fill in the Sprint Vision (Team Roster!$C$4) so it is clear for all members of the team.

2. Set the sprint start date in Capacity!$E$3

If your dates are not in US format you need to manually change the week days in column D because formula for I6 expects English week days.

3. Specify your options for the project in the Analysis!E40:E47:

a. SkipWeekends (Analysis!E40) - (0=30 calendar days; 1=30 working days). Set to 1 to have dates skip over weekends (30 working day sprint, >30 calendar day sprint). Do not switch after Sprint has started or data will be stored under wrong days.

b. DailyScrumDateModifier (Analysis!E41) -Number of days added to or subtracted from today's date to ensure the highlighted date column in the sprint worksheet corresponds to the day of the current daily Scrum meeting. In the Spint worksheet, Today's day will be highlighted. This value adjusts the day that is highlighted. Negative number to go back from today's date; positive number to go forward from today's date.

Do not change the Workbook-Wide Constants These are constants for the formulas used elsewhere.

4. Define your functional areas in Project Specific Reports!A9:A24. If you need to change the number of columns you will need to adjust the Data validation of columns B of the Sprint Worksheet by going to Data, and then Data Validation menu.

5. Fill in the Sprint Backlog items

a. Worktype - select between Feature, Tax, Precondition or spike

i. Feature - describes functionality that will be valuable to either a user or purchaser of a system or software.

ii. Tax - A tax is the cost of doing business

iii. Precondition - Preconditions are items that must happen at the completion

iv. Spike - Brief experiment to learn more about an area of application. Timeboxed, which allows the spike to be estimated.

b. Deliverable Area - You can select from the functional areas of your project that you defined in step 4. This will allow you to get a report based on the functional areas.

c. Product Backlog Item or Group -

d. Work Item ID - The Id of the work item.

e. Sprint Work item Description - Description of the work to be done.

f. Driver - Who will be responsible to drive this work item.

g. Status - it is automatic set for "Complete";"In progress" and "pending". You can manually add "Postponed" and "Cancelled", so it shows up in the reports.

h. Pri - Priority of the Work item

i. Initial - The initial estimate for this work item.

B. Daily updates - The daily information to be updated on the template.

On the end of the day or the morning of the next day each person of the team needs to update the time spent with each work item and re-estimate the remaining time to complete the task.

Go to the correspondent Day of the iteration and fill :

1. Spent - Time spent during that day with that work item

2. Left - The remaining time to complete the work item. It can be higher then the previous Left value due to new knowledge you acquired during that day.

C. Analysis - Checking the flow of the sprint

On the Analysis worksheet you can see the burndown chart per items and hours and several other overall indicators that are self explanatory.

Semana de Eventos sobre Scrum em Setembro

tiagonmas — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 09:26:00 GMT

A Fullsix está a organizar um outro ciclo de eventos sobre Scrum que decorrerá em Setembro deste ano.

Haverá a repetição da certificação Scrum Master, e o workshop "Agile Estimation and Planning". As novidades são o workshop "Agile Requirements Gathering" e a primeira reunião do grupo Português da Scrum Alliance.

Eis a lista de eventos:

Certified Scrum Master - 15 e 16 Setembro de 2008
Agile Estimation and Planning - 17 de Setembro de 2008
Agile Requirements Management -18 de Setembro de 2008
First Annual Scrum Portuguese Users Group Meeting -19 de Setembro de 2008

Scrum video with Ken Schwaber

Ricardo Fiel : Scrum — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 00:09:23 GMT

A very good video about Scrum with Ken Schwaber (inventor of Scrum): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyNPeTn8fpo The session takes place at Google's Tech Talks Channel. Topics covered include: What is Scrum, success and failure stories, XP (eXtreme Programming), burn-down charts, the role of the scrum master, dealing with requirements changes, the impact of working overtime and not worrying about code quality, among others. Also a great Q&A on distributed teams, when and how much to think...(read more)

Certified Scrum Master

canoas'blog - Scrum — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 04:39:18 GMT

O Mitch Lacey já nos enviou a foto oficial do primeiro curso e entretanto também já publicou a apresentação que ele fez no Auditório do Tagus Park no dia 1: ScrumForManagers.pdf Para quem estiver interessado neste tema o melhor é começar por subscrever o RSS no http://ScrumPT.com RSS . Lá vão ser anunciadas mais actividades, incluíndo já um curso lá para Abril http://www.fullsix.pt/scrum/ e claro, o Techdays em Abril com sessões de Scrum e Team System. No site já estão alguns blogs e eu por exemplo...(read more)

Scrum tips from a recently Certified Scrum Master

António Cruz : Scrum — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 00:46:00 GMT

Thanks to Microsoft , Fullsix and Logical Software , who organized and sponsored the first Scrum Master Certification training ever delivered in Portugal, I am now a Certified Scrum Master . As recognized by Mitch Lacey , our Certified Scrum Trainer ,...( read more )...(read more)

Scrum is Fun! (and TFS looks nice)

Ricardo Fiel : Scrum — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 18:58:00 GMT

Last week I was at two events about Scrum, organized by Microsoft and Fullsix Portugal. The first was called Scrum for Managers and was presented by Mitch Lacey (from Ascentium ). I never enjoyed project management (actually, I think it's more 'I always hated it!'), probably because in college I had a really bad experience and then never quite got into it. I've been in touch with some agile methodologies, but I never got in touch with Scrum. Mitch's session blew me away! Was REALLY...(read more)

Scrum for Managers - live

canoas — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 10:53:52 GMT

A sessão que está a decorrer no Auditório central do Tagus, está também disponível online neste LiveMeeting.

http://blogs.msdn.com/msdnportugal/archive/2008/01/31/scrum-para-mangers-transmiss-o-live-1-fev-9h-12h30.aspx

Nota: esta transmissão só pode ser acompanhada em streaming em tempo real. Não vai ficar disponível para download mais tarde.

Livros sobre Scrum

canoas — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 10:41:16 GMT

Durante o curso estes foram os livros recomendados:

Ken Schwaber's Agile Project Management with Scrum... (25 customer reviews)

Ken Schwaber's The Enterprise and Scrum... (6 customer reviews)

Craig Larman's Agile and Iterative Development: A Manager's Guide... (44 customer reviews)

Scrum Papers: Nuts, Bolts, and Origins of an Agile Process

Sónia Moreira : Scrum — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 12:58:00 GMT

http://jeffsutherland.com/scrum/ScrumPapers.pdf Sónia Moreira...(read more)

Now Available: Microsoft eScrum Version 1.0

Sónia Moreira : Scrum — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 12:29:00 GMT

Podem fazer o download aqui . Se após a instalação surgir o seguinte erro: "Failed to retrieve WorkItemStore Service on server: SERVERNAME or there is no project found with name: PROJECT NAME ." Instalem as seguintes dlls na GAC do Team Foundation Server: Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Client.dll Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Common.dll Microsoft.TeamFoundation.WorkItemTracking.Client.dll Microsoft.TeamFoundation.WorkItemTracking.Client.DataStore.dll Microsoft.TeamFoundation.WorkItemTracking.Client...(read more)