Melbourne Scrum User Group

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Past events

• Sprint Planning for Success

  Wed, 27 Feb 2013, 07:00 - 10:00 in Melbourne, Australia

  A deep dive into Sprint Planning.What patterns and techniques lead to great sprint planning sessions and sprint outcomes? How much time and energy do you put into sprint plans? How do you know your sprint plan was successful? How do you know what to improve?Join Scrummaster Brett Maytom for this interactive talk.

• Halloween Scrum meetup: Edgy Agile things that you may not have heard of

  Wed, 31 Oct 2012, 07:00 - 10:00 in , Australia

  Pretty much the opposite of Agile 101. A summary of more edgy and obscure Agile ideas and practices that you may find useful.

• The Agilist versus Data Architect civil (uncivil?) war

  Wed, 26 Sep 2012, 08:00 - 11:00 in Melbourne, Australia

  There's sometimes a tension between traditional data architects/ modellers, and agilists.Perhaps it's not too hard to understand. The "data" types feel they?ve been burned by fast delivery of applications that won't integrate with other systems, and the agile developers don't want to sit around waiting for head office architects to describe a perfect start-up model.One approach to ending this civil (uncivil?) war is to use published data model/class model patterns.

• User Experience and agile

  Wed, 23 May 2012, 08:00 - 10:00 in Melbourne, Australia

  This session will be centred around user experience and how it can integrate into agile developments.We will have an overview of Agile UX from Peter Grierson from REA and then have a panel discussion relating to your real world examples of Agile UX at workPlease let us know in the comments whether you would like to be part of the panel, or have any other suggestions for the session.A central location will be announced prior to the meetup.

• Managing Product Backlogs

  Wed, 18 Apr 2012, 08:00 - 10:00 in Melbourne, Australia

  This month we will take a look at product backlogs.We will cover the following ground;- What is a backlog- What goes into a backlog- Sizing backlogs- Readying backlogs for sprints- Augmenting backlogs with techniques such as story maps and other things- Queuing theory and how it underpins the backlog idea- Dealing with multiple backlogs

• Introduction to Scrum (aka Scrum 101)

  Wed, 28 Mar 2012, 07:00 - 09:00 in Melbourne, Australia

  Dom Fenton talks about Scrum.This presentation is aimed at introducing new people to Scrum and reminding more experienced practitioners of how important the basics really are.The presentation will be followed by a Q&A session facilitated by Dom and several other experience scrum professionals.Dom is a project leader with experience both across Europe and locally with several of Australia's largest corporations. He is currently leading an agile team at Telstra.

• Jeff Patton via Yow

  Thu, 8 Mar 2012, 06:30 - 08:30 in Melbourne, Australia

  The crew at YOW! have organised Jeff Patton to run a free YOW! night next Thursday 8th March. Jeff is a thought leader in the Agile Product Management space and is in town for a short-time to deliver a series of workshops. More on Jeff here.... ... The event is at the Telstra Centre (thanks Telstra!) and you can register here.... ... ... we'll be going for drinks at the Elephant & Wheelbarrow after the event. Numbers are limited so get in fast!

• Scrum Smells and Anti Patterns

  Wed, 29 Feb 2012, 07:00 - 09:00 in Melbourne, Australia

  This month the group talks about common smells and anti patterns.  We will have a short intro sharing the concept of scrum smells and then open questions and discussions to a panel.Some of our volunteer panel members are; *Erik Petersen *Bruce Taylor *Reg De Silva *Neil Killick *Charlie ChengYou might also like to check out this wiki on scrum smells!

• Dean Leffingwell

  Wed, 15 Feb 2012, 07:00 - 09:00 in Melbourne, Australia

  Dean Leffingwell is presenting at Telstra Theatre. Please sign up at Agile Australia if you want to attend.

• Story Mapping workshop

  Wed, 15 Feb 2012, 06:45 - 08:45 in Melbourne, Australia

  Details of this workshop are via the Agile Business Analyst meetup. Please sign up at that meetup if you are coming.

• Scrum Monthly Meet-up

  Wed, 30 Nov 2011, 07:00 - 09:00 in Melbourne, Australia

  We'd like to point the meet-up community to Ignite Melbourne for this month.Check out the details and book via the / site.

• Hear David Snowden on Strategic Knowledge

  Wed, 9 Nov 2011, 08:00 - 10:00 in Melbourne, Australia

  See ACS at ... 9 November, details at ACS site.

• Monitoring and Managing Scope change

  Tue, 11 Oct 2011, 07:00 - 09:00 in Melbourne, Australia

  (One for the PMs!) Case study of an 18 month project with scope chages tracked and discussion of the responses. Tools used: backlog, excel cumulative flow and control charts. Cross posted to #AgileBA and #LimitedWIP groups

• Agile Business Intelligence & Data Warehousing by Ralph Hughes

  Wed, 27 Apr 2011, 07:30 - 09:30 in Melbourne, Australia

  Title: Executive Briefing on Agile Business Intelligence and Data WarehousingOverview: While Agile approaches for the development of transaction- and data capture-applications have been around since before the publication of the Agile Manifesto  10 years ago, employing Agile methods such as Scrum and XP to build large, data-driven systems such as data warehouses is new.  New, but luckily just as effective.

• April Meet-up

  Wed, 13 Apr 2011, 08:00 - 10:00 in Melbourne, Australia

  Last month we came together and created a backlog of things we want to explore.This month our focus is to take this content and shape it into a project, using the principles and methods of scrum.The theme is naturally "Starting a project."The agenda:  I'll do a short 10 minute talk and then we break into smaller groups to convert broad concepts and ideas into actions. Backlog here; https://www.pivotaltracker.com/projects/247247

• Let's have a scrum meetup in Melbourne soon

  Thu, 3 Mar 2011, 07:00 - 09:00 in Melbourne, Australia

  LocationSomeone nominate a place!AgendaTimes are guesses.  We'll work it out on the night.6pm - hello & what are we here for?  Q&As on scrum, etc7.00 Some Lean/Kanban people are coming so we can also move onto this topicDid you check out the #10yrsagile on twitter last weekend?

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