South Africa Scrum Gathering Open Space Notes
October 19, 2010
The second day of the South Africa Scrum Gathering Open Space began with a rush of great topics. The energy continued into the afternoon with a variety of session topics with something to interest everyone. Review the notes from the Open Space sessions enclosed here.
10:00-11:00 Trust in Teams, Changing from Waterfall to Scrum, External Public Transparency, Building a team common goal/vision, Individual Responsibility/Conflict, Team Psychology, Reducing your Backlog, Automating Testing, Why do our Customers hate us when we are only trying to help them
11:00-12:00 Overcoming Fear, Being Objective and Supportive, Plan for the Unplanned, Swarming/Self-organizing, Distributed teams, Follow rules before adapting, Building a stronger team, Fun at work, Measurements, Agile contracting, Product Owner Boundaries, Male vs. Female thinking, Stop Lying
12:00-1:00 Balancing work and family, Dealing with External Vendors, No Offices/No Commuting, Inspiring Teams to be Agile, Efficient Meetings, Continuous Improvement in the Workplace, Scrum Community and User Groups, Dealing with floating resources, Motivating/Incentivizing Employees, Measuring Quality, Pushing back without compromising delivery, Towards co-location and dedicated teams, Changing Management to Leadership, Confidence in Delivery Dates
2:00-3:00, 3:00-4:00 PMBOK and Scrum, Breaking the Elephant into Chunks, Job Swapping, Changing from Individual to Team Rewards, Open Source vs. Proprietary Software, Facilitation and Collaboration, Coaching Circles, Global Change in the Organization, Transforming Documents, Celebration, Agile in Schools, Keep challenging smart people in Scrum
