I had a great time meeting a bunch of cool Agilists at the Agile Boston meeting on this past Wednesday night.  I had a chance to present on a topic I am particularly passionate about: Agile Metrics and Diagnostics.

The pdf of the presentation can be found here:

I had a great time presenting at the SQAA-OC in Irvine on Tuesday (5/18).

Here are copies of the slides: QA The Agile Way

George and I presented our Agile Battlemapping presentation at the Agile2009 conference.  I had an absolutely fantastic time and based on the feedback we received from the audience, it appeared that everyone else had a good time too.  This was the first time we had added the practical exercises.  First the audience members individually drew battlemaps of their own projects or programs followed and then they combined into groups to create prioritized response strategies.  I look forward to making further enhancements and to the next time we present it.  Click below do download a PDF of the presentation.

Agile 2009: Mapping the Change Battlefied

I recently created a simple Theme Prioritization Scoring Spreadsheet.  I use this as part of the Certified Scrum Product Owner class that I conduct.

BigVisible Theme Prioritization Scoring Workshop – CSPO Class

Feel free to download and use.  It currently does not weight the relative benefit of implementing a feature (epic, theme or user story) nor the penalty of not implementing though adding the weighting capability is simple enough.

If you are interested in taking an public scrum class with me, check out training.bigvisible.com

Regards,
Giora Morein

Brian Bozzuto presented last night at the Central Mass chapter of the PMI on an Introduction to Scrum.  The presentation is available here:

I’ve been asked recently to post the Standalone Iteration Tracking Spreadsheet that I created a few years back – and I finally got around to it.  This spreadsheet was first part of a bigger tool that supported backlog management, release reporting, feature tracking etc.  It became incredibly difficult to maintain so I decided to pull key pieces out and made them independent.  This Iteration or Sprint Tracker is intended to be used by ScrumMasters or Project Managers.  It was never intended to be used by the entire team (though you absolutely can) but rather provide a way for the ScrumMaster to actively track task progress and generate real-time reports and diagnostics.  You will see that it provides far more than the simple traditional burndown.  Along with the Advanced Burn-up it also shows the Category Burn-down.  The Category Burndown is intended to show visibility into the progress of specific categories of task – to identify bottlenecks or constraints. more »

Event: Israel Scrum User Group, December 2008
Location: Tel-Aviv, Israel
Presenter: Giora Morein

This is the Scrum Introduction presentation I presented at the first Scrum Israel User Group.

Download the Introduction to Scrum