I’m keeping this writeup definitely shorter than my writeup of XP Days Benelux. In Karlsruhe, we presented the Science Scrum talk again, that Joseph and I had submitted together. Slides from the talk are here and a podcast was recorded and should become available on the organizer’s site soon.
It definitely was a challenge to boil [...]
This year, I attended XP Days Benelux for the first time, and I want to share some of the insights and impressions I got from this event. To tell the truth, I have not been at any XP Days-Events before, and my mind was blown away. This was not what I expected. It was much, [...]
Ich werde an den XP Days Germany zusammen mit Joseph Pelrine (@josephpelrine) eine 30′-Version unseres Erfahrungsberichts mit Scrum im Management einer Uni-Forschungsgruppe präsentieren. Der Vortrag ist auf Deutsch (was mir nicht schwerfallen sollte, aber dennoch ungewohnt ist), im Gegensatz zu der Session, die wir ein paar Tage vorher an den XP Days Benelux halten werden.
Besonderes [...]
In this article, we take a look at the roles of management and product ownership in university research.
There was recently not so long ago a discussion at InfoQ, triggered by an opinion piece by Amr Elssamadisy. Michael Hedgpeth suggests that the bad [...]
I will be attending XP Days Benelux this year. Joseph Pelrine and I have proposed a session called “Science Scrum: Managing a Research Group the Agile Way”, which will be opening the conference proper right after the plenary. We’ll speak about some of the things I have covered (and have been meaning to cover) here [...]
Ask a scrum practitioner what the right size for a scrum team is, and he’s likely to tell you “7, plus minus 2″, the canonical Scrum answer. Here, I want to consider lower limits of Scrum teams and how to overcome them.
This seemingly magical size of teams of between 5 and 9 members being able [...]