Agile 2009: Conference Program Announced!

May 19, 2009

If you haven’t seen it yet, the full conference program for Agile 2009 has been announced. You can take a look at what’s planned for those five days in August: http://agile2009.agilealliance.org/programOverview

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Free Educational Resource for Scrum Teams

May 5, 2009

I don’t know about you, but I’m always searching for great materials—articles, books, blogs, and so on—that explain agile project management methods and techniques in a clear and concise way. I’m trying to amass an archive of materials, so that when a new member joins my team or another team at my organization decides to pursue agile methods, I can offer some literature to help them find their bearings. One place I look for these (and I highly recommend you look there, too) is Dzone (www.dzone.com), which publishes “Refcardz,” a.k.a. educational resources for developers. In the past, most of DZone’s Refcardz have been deeply technical, but its newest one focuses on the popular agile project management framework, Scrum.

Authored by Danube Certified Scrum Trainer Michael James, this new Refcard is exactly the kind of document I’d want to give to someone who had just joined a Scrum team and needs to learn the basics fast. It is very readable and doesn’t get caught up in tangential conversations that would distract or confuse a newbie. Instead, it simply defines Scrum’s most foundational, non-negotiable elements: its roles, meetings, and artifacts. Scrum is a very skeletal framework and James does an excellent job of explaining them in a linear fashion that’s easy to follow, even for the uninitiated. Elsewhere, he provides his insight on related practices and the challenges of scaling Scrum teams across very large organizations. In all, it’s a comprehensive introduction to Scrum’s fundamental tenets and a few of the most relevant topics for practitioners.

Download the pdf of Michael James’ Scrum Refcard below and use it to train new members of your Scrum team.

Scrum_Refcard.pdf

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