Posted Mon, 01/25/2010 - 23:15 by admin
During Agilopolis Community Day 6 there has been interesting discussion about Scrum Master as team member. Both sides got good arguments behind.
For Scrum Master as team members there were following arguments: When team is small Scrum Master from outside is just another "overhead" for the team, role can't be rotated and not all team members can understand the responsibilty of Scrum Master,
Posted Fri, 12/25/2009 - 13:56 by admin
Peace, Frieden, Paz, Joy, Joyeux Noel, Shalom, God Ful,
Frohe Weihnachten, Buon Natale, Prettige Kerstdagen,
Prosit Neujahr, Meilleurs Voeux, Paix,... to all Agilopolis Members!
Agilopolis Team
Posted Fri, 10/23/2009 - 02:52 by admin
Meeting place: Research&Engineering Center, Wroclaw, Strzegomska 46A,
Date & Time: 18:00, 22.10.2009
Duration: 2,0 hours
Meeting Summary:
Marcin presented real examples and tinyPM at work. Moreover, there were some cooking secretes related to how it is developed and about its philosophy.
There was also very interesting discussion regarding 'agile in corporation'. Maybe a good topic for next meeting? (maybe Tomasz will volunteer :)?)
The meeting was closed with drawing of prizes provided by Marcin.
tinyPM:
Posted Wed, 09/23/2009 - 02:20 by admin
Unfortunately, second Agilopolis Community Conference should be refered in a past tense now :(. But on the other hand, all great memories and lot of acquired knowledge will stay with us forever!
Conference was opened by Ewa Schumacher and introduction of moderator - Lukasz Jastrzebski (NSN).
Moderator introduced basic rules of Open Space Technology, which were pretty simple.
Main Goal: solve concrete problems, get some real conclusions
Posted Mon, 06/08/2009 - 02:52 by admin
I have stumbled upon a great speech by Steven Jobs at Stanford University.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1R-jKKp3NA&feature=related
What is so fascinating is that Steven does not use any presentation techniques, it is his speech, content that keeps listener on the edge. Mix of personal experience, wisdom and good placed jokes.
Whenever you create presentation, please take a look at this speech for inspiration and guidelines.
Posted Mon, 06/01/2009 - 14:30 by admin
We have created Agilopolis group at Goldenline in order to simplify & reinforce our talks regarding Agile. Please use it and share it with Your friends. Group is available under: http://www.goldenline.pl/forum/agilopolis
Posted Tue, 05/26/2009 - 13:48 by admin
I have recently stumbled on nice agile application :).
Please check:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=PL&v=l1wKO3rID9g
Have fun!
Posted Sun, 05/17/2009 - 18:15 by admin
Meeting place: Research&Engineering Center, Wroclaw, Strzegomska 46A/0A6,
Date & Time: 18:00, 14.05.2009
Duration: 2 hours
Meeting summary:
Agilopolis Community Day 2 featured presentation by Marek Majchrzak regarding most important concepts of XP and support given by tooling and short presentation by Marcin Niebudek.
Marek's stated that current XP or more generally agile practices are very commercialized and quite away from initial ideas created by Kent Beck during his work on the Chrysler Comprehensive Compensation System (C3) payroll project in 1996.
Posted Fri, 05/01/2009 - 11:36 by admin
Recently, I have stumbled upon an interesting article describing motivation elements in agile, but not only.
The most important advantage of this article over thousands on the web is that author actually understands that all soft techniques or agile methods (proud, team work, shame, etc.) are nice and in many cases works well, but sometimes, it is not enough and manager must appeal to heavier argumentation or standard motivation techniques.
What is your favourable motivation techniques? Any tips and tricks that you can share with Agilopolis colleagues?
Posted Fri, 05/01/2009 - 10:59 by admin
Agilopolis is enhanced by three new forums.
- Agilopolis Community Day discussion - when you can post your comments and suggestions regarding Agilopolis Community Days
- Jobs - when you can post jobs offer that can be interested for Agilopolis members
- Q&A - when you can post your deepest fears and questions about agile so other members can discuss them
Please feel free to join discussion.
Posted Thu, 04/30/2009 - 16:01 by admin
Marcin Koltonowski has conducted a lecture & workshop during IT Days 2009 Confrenece in Wroclaw. Topic was: "Agile & scrum introduction. Tool project case study". This was a great opportuinity to promote our community.
During lecture session there were many questions regarding Agile and Agilopolis itself. Workshop session was condacted for 15 students, who were willing to learn agile during hands-on workshop.
More details can be found on official page of conference: http://www.aiesec.pl/itdays/.
Posted Mon, 04/27/2009 - 18:09 by admin
Meeting place: Silver Forum, Wroclaw, Strzegomska 2,
Date & Time: 18:00, 16.04.2009
Duration: 2 hours
Meeting summary:
The intial Agilopolis Community Day took place Thursday, 16th in Silver Formum in Wroclaw. It gathered group of people who finds themselves interested in learning and sharing the best practice of Agile.
Posted Sun, 04/19/2009 - 23:23 by admin
Risk Management: Concepts and Guidance, by Carl L. Pritchard
In my research for "working solutions" I read recently Carl Pritchard's "Risk Management: Concepts and Guidance". The book was recommended as blueprint for Risk management by practitioners not only related to PMI.
Posted Tue, 04/14/2009 - 09:52 by admin
Presentation skills are not something that agile focuses on, however this skill is essential for project managers despite of methodology being used.
It is especially important if you want to make presentation for your management how to migrate to agile :).
There is quite interesting article presenting interesting approach to creation of power point presentations:
http://tickledbylife.com/index.php/avoiding-death-by-powerpoint/?goback=...
Do you have any experience or other ideas? Please share them with Agilopolis members.
Posted Tue, 04/14/2009 - 01:41 by admin
Dear Agilopolis Members,
Agile Community Day is only 2 days away!
It is a great opportunity to share experience and meet people working on the same issues and build long lasting relationships.
At the same time, event will be an opportunity to discuss future of Agilopolis and the way forward. Your ideas and input is warmly welcome.
Due to limited number of places, in case you are not able to participate, please drop an email at info@agilopolis.com, so other can participate (at the moment it is fully booked).
Posted Sun, 04/12/2009 - 20:58 by admin
Since there were many questions regarding the licence of content published on agilpolis, please note that by default, all content on Agilopolis is published under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
It is basic licence that requires only to keep information about author. However, in order to ensure author's right, on his request, content can be published with any Creative Commons licence
Please find details at http://agilopolis.com/licence
Posted Thu, 04/09/2009 - 18:01 by admin
When trying to find a nice tool for Enterprise Product Backlog management , I have stumble upon interesting tool that can be used both for spring planning and high level project tracking (enterprise product backlog).
It is simple, fast, able to manage portfolio of projects and resources.
Please take a look at:
http://www.agilefant.org/wiki/display/AEF/Agilefant+Home
If you know better free tooling (except XPlanner) please give us a hint!
Posted Sun, 04/05/2009 - 23:05 by admin
Problem of geographically distributed team is one of the most often raised questions and issues of Agile approach
How to overcome it, how to minimise impact of distance? This entry is to open discussion about this problem.
I bet that there will be some voices requesting to simply not allow for geographical distribution. Justify it by methodology and ban it. But still it is a problem blocking both moving towards Agile and growth of the organisation.
From my experience I found two approaches to the problem that address two different problems:
Posted Sun, 04/05/2009 - 11:54 by admin
Latest PM Network provides so called Multisourcing Map, based on Gartner's 30 Leading Locations for Offshore Services. It contains 30 most popular offshore locations placed on world map.
There are three main clusters:
- west-south Asia
- central-east Europe
- south-central America
It is not surprising, these are locations were costs are low and IT labour market is large. However, there is single location that does not fulfil these criteria.
Canada is on a map but labour costs there are high!
Posted Tue, 03/31/2009 - 15:32 by admin
Recently I have read an interesting article regarding Quality Assurance in Agile, which was proposed to my by Tomek, thanks Tomek! Article is about practical approach to do quality assurance during agile development in real projects. It is not so easy as we now it, but if planned and executed can be done. Similar way of quality assurance is done in my project, this is way I have felt during reading of this article, that it is really close to reality, my reality. Here is my question to You guys. How are You assuring quality in Your projects?
