Archive for August, 2008
Talk “Scrum 101″ @ Barcamp Coimbra 2008
Next step after Hamburg? Well, really close to home - I’ll be giving a talk/presentation in Coimbra, Portugal, on the 3rd Edition of Barcamp. Curious about what is a Barcamp? Take a look here. The event is organized by those tireless guys at WeBreakStuff, whose work and “can-do” attitude I admire.
About the talk: it’s an overview of Scrum (what else?), with an estimated duration of one hour and a half - and it’s prepared for a maximum of 40 participants. And, of course, it’s free, as everything in Barcamps is.
Interested? Drop me a line, if that’s the case.
About the Hamburg Projecktmanagement Forum meeting
Hello again!
The PM Hamburg meeting was a success: the location (Café del Sol, Hamburg) was great - roomy, which adapted very well to our crowd of enthusiastic Project Managers.
My sincere “Thank You” to Bernd Oestereich, Christian Weiss and Stephan Koß - for organizing such a great event. I’ll do my best to be on the next edition, in Vienna!
Offline meeting of Project Management forum from Xing
I’ll be present on the offline meeting of PM forum from Xing.
Where: Hamburg, Germany - Café del Sol, Jenfelder Allee 80 a, 22045 Hamburg (link)
When: 15 Aug 2008, 07:00 pm — 11:45 pm (Berlin Time)
Q&A - One team for several projects? What to do?
I’ve got a good question from Cairo Noleto, regarding Scrum, which I’ll answer here:
“In Scrum, a Team is always mapped in only one project. Is it possible to manage several projects with a single Team? That’s something that happens quite a lot in the real world, specially in small organizations. How does Scrum deals with it?” - Cairo Noleto, Add4 Comunicação, Brazil
One thing which is crucial in a correct Scrum adoption is to avoid (and that’s a part of the Scrum Master job) that the team is interrupted during the duration of a Sprint. If the Team members have their effort splitted over several projects, then their concentration will be interrupted and cut off several times per day!
For a Scrum approach, the right thing to do is change from a team such as:
Team A: 8 members, working in projects P1, P2 and P3
…to, for instance….
Team A: 3 members, working in project P1
Team B: 3 members, working in project P2
Team C: 3 members, working in project P3
More questions? Feel free to ask, to ricardomestre at fastmail dot fm.
