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Talk on Scrum and SOA at the CDTM in Munich

Fri, 25 May 2007 12:51:42 GMT

Simon Roberts was recently invited to talk about Scrum and SOA at the Center for Digital Technology and Management in Munich, Germany. The CDTM is a partnership between two Munich universities and cooperates closely with industry. It's aim is to "prepare the students for future leadership positions in their professional career."

The talk was provided as a part of a course that introduces students to an agile approach to SOA development. During the course, real functionality will be developed and demonstrated to industry partners.

Scrum and Lean

Tue, 20 Feb 2007 14:56:14 GMT

As a Scrum coach and practitioner, I find that Scrum itself, backed up by my experience, provides most of the guidance that I need to advise clients during agile transitions. However, sometimes it is useful to look at other flavours of agile. Lean Software Development, which shares a common ancestry with Scrum in that they were both inspired by the Toyota Production System and the Toyota Product Development System, provides additional insight that can be used in combination with Scrum.

Scrum auf Deutsch

Mon, 12 Feb 2007 09:42:48 GMT

We’ve translated Mike Cohn’s re-distributable Introduction to Scrum into German. You can get it here. It’s licensed using the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License. Please let us know if you make improvements.

Update. Mike Cohn has kindly added the German version to the Mountain Goat Software web site. You can access it here.