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thinkingagile had the opportunity to attend the first ever Scrum-day in South Africa on Spring day… well, typically Cape Town, Spring day turned-out to be more to be a stormy, windy, rainy, cold day!
Weather aside, it was a great day, well organised and overall a Scrum success… well done to the SUGSA committee who organised this great day!
The day was split into two tracks, Business and Technical, therefore catering for all the preferences. Personally, I was split between the two and ended up attending sessions across…
Later the afternoon, the delegates was treated to a live video feed with Jeff Sutherland. His topic for the talk was ‘Take no prisoners’ which was very suited to Scrum overall… Scrum is not for sissies at all!
Adopting Scrum and reaching your expected goals with Scrum is relatively easy, however, not for the faint hearted, especially at the beginning…
A more detailed post on the day will be done later this week, I have invited a guest blogger to join me in wrapping up this event on thinkingagile… first, it’s the trek back to Gauteng and better weather to see if I can’t at least get the feeling of Spring this year!
Sweeping changes have been occurring in the software development world.
‘AGILE and Scrum’ has moved from obscurity to the leading framework for software development and is the most sought after process in the market.
The Kaizania SCRUM|interact course is geared to enable teams and organizations to adopt Agile and implement Scrum.
Software developers, Testers and QA, Analysts, Product managers, Program managers and Project managers – this is a training course that one and all will find immensely valuable.
Join us for two fun filled days of learning and self exploration!
| Take up this offer and register for this course, limited seats available
For more information on the course as well as the course outline, please download the SCRUM|interact brochure here… |
Venue: KleinKaap ( Centurion ) – KleinKaap Map
Date: 29 and 30 July 2009
Time: Arrival 08:00, Course to start at 08:30, the day will end after 5pm, dependant on Q&A
Included: Refreshments, lunch and all training materials
Bookings: Arrie van der Dussen – scrum@kaizania.co.za / 083 700 2181
Registration: To register, please go to http://www.kaizania.co.za/agile/interact_registration.php
Kind regards
Kaizania - Agile
+27 12 991 0269 | agile@kaizania.co.za
This is the first reminder for the next SUGSA Gauteng event on the 21st of May 2009 and we have some interesting updates for you on the evening’s content:
As promised, we have an organisation who will present a case study on the benefits realised with the adoption of Scrum and Agile…
Case Study:
Harry King of Rosami Products & Services, who are contracted to 2Dialog – a company based in Richardson, Texas, will be presenting a case study on how Scrum is assisting them in realising the expected benefits of Agile off-shore development in South Africa…
Book review:
Lionel Bisschoff will again entertain us with a book review
Agile and Scrum Committee Reading List:
The SUGSA Gauteng committee will for the first time reveal what we are reading and a list of subjects and books/articles on those subjects will be handed out.
So far we had overwhelming response and we are looking forward to see everyone… however, please don’t hesitate to bring friends/colleagues and whoever you think might benefit or add to the discussions planned!
Event registration: http://www.scrum.org.za/resources/event-registration/event-registration-gauteng
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The previous events were so well attended and using your feedback from this, we have decided to use this event for an open discussion around Agile and Scrum with help from a panel of experts.
Case studies will be presented for discussion, Scrum practitioners and organisations using Scrum will be present to share their ‘war-stories’ with us and to answer your questions.
Join us for an evening of open discussion – bring your questions, bring your concerns, bring your own ‘war-stories’ and share with all of us… we are all keen to learn!
When: 21 May 2009
Time: 18:00 for 18:30
Where: Momentum Auditorium 1, Centurion, Pretoria (click for map)
Event registration: http://www.scrum.org.za/resources/event-registration/event-registration-gauteng
Sponsors: Kaizania and Momentum
Refreshments will be served before and after the event.
For any additional information, please contact agile@kaizania.co.za.
The Cape Town chapter of the Scrum User Group of South Africa held it’s 4th event last night. We met at Great Westerford, with venue and food kindly sponsored by Intec and drinks sponsored by Scrum Sense.
Hilton Giesenow, Development Manager at 3Fifteen and Microsoft MVP spoke on continuous integration (CI) in Scrum. A brief summary of his talk at http://www.scrum.org.za/events/hilton-giesenow-on-continuous-integration-in-scrum
The SUGSA Gauteng event is planned for 21 May 2009 at Momentum in Centurion, with food and drinks sponsored by Kaizania.
For more information and to register for the event, please go to http://www.scrum.org.za/events/scrum-user-group-south-africa-gauteng-event-4-21-may-2009
Kind regards
Arrie van der Dussen
Agile Business Manager | Agile consultant
Kaizania
Kaizania at GovTech 2009!
September 22, 2009 in Agile Commentary, Events | Tags: adopting agile, agile events, agile training, consulting, implementing scrum, scrum, scrum overview, what is scrum? | by thinkingagile | Leave a comment
As part of our mission to foster, support and assist the adoption of Agile software development techniques within Southern Africa, Kaizania sponsored and attended the recent Govtech 2009 conference at the Durban International Conference Centre – see http://www.govtech.co.za/
The conference itself was a great success and exceedingly well organised. If the conference is the standard at which government IT projects are to be delivered, SA citizens are in for excellent ICT service delivery.
Our conference started on Sunday the 13th of September when Kaizania sponsored the Project Management Special Interest Group (PM SIG) event http://www.govtech.co.za/conf_pmsig.asp.
Next up there was a panel discussion with the following panellists:
Some interesting project management aspects were discussed, but it was no surprise that a barrage of questions regarding the nitty gritty details of the Gautrain project were directed at Jack.
Kaizania at GovTech 2009 - Ben and Lionel
One interesting question was regarding techniques to motivate and promote team spirit on project teams consisting of cross-cultural, remotely located team members. Jack described how the project and management world has changed from very hierarchical command-and-control organizational structures and processes to lead-and-co-ordinate organizational structures and processes. A common vision and associated goals provide the basis for self-organizing teams to achieve an organization’s goals, led by business and agile project leaders. The Flexible Production era is what it is all about – more info on that in Kaizania’s white paper here.
From the 14th to the 16th of September the Kaizania stand was manned by
Kaizania at GovTech 2009 - Ben and Arrie
We used the ever present sticky notes of the Agile world to decorate our stand, as well as Version One posters, a flat screen showing Agile related videos and our Kaizania pull down banners. The Kaizania stand attracted much attention and we met many interesting people, many of which are now very keen to embark on the Agile journey. Success!
Thank you to all the folks at SITA that assisted Kaizania in sponsoring and exhibiting at Govtech 2009. We look forward to being at Govtech 2010, apparently in Cape Town!