The Bucharest Agile Community had a meetup on “Estimation Techniques”. The topic was picked in the spring by the community and was so popular that a second session was required. The discussion on sprint planning was easier because less risks are involved. Beside the classic planning poker with story points we discussed about a few …
Wednesday night, Bucharest Agile Community had a meetup on “Estimation Techniques”. The topic was picked in the spring by the community and was so popular that a second session was required. This post is about the first part of the meetup. 15 people, including about four newcomers, discussed about estimations in two contexts: before the …
ALE2013 finished with the most fantastic day. It started with some minutes of wakeup gymnastics. After the speakers introduced their talks, attendees chose between talks on lean startup, continuous improvement, offers and pricing or software design. The offer was very attractive and again we had to choose one talk out of three going on at a …
What a day…what a night! So many activities and so intensive that I didn’t realize when the time flied. So, I am writing now about the day before. I will tell you shortly what happened yesterday. Flavius Stef and Claudia Rosu opened the day with the intro. They surprised us inviting the ALE kids (participants‘ …
The first magic day started with the open intro made by the organizers. Jurgen Appelo had the opening keynote about the new organizational structure of the 21st century: the network, not the hierarchy. I realized from his talk that learning through experiments and remembered is the way to improve. After the speakers introduced their talk, it was challenging …
We are ready for ALE. Are you? I was at Radisson Blu Hotel this evening for the last day of ALE2013 preparations. The venue is ready to receive all the ALE2013 attendees. The organizers, including the Mozaic Work team and the volunteers prepared the unconference rooms with logistic and materials. Everything is in place for …
Last year, the ALE network voted the city for the 3rd edition of the unconference We discussed in the team and decided that we can help and that the Romanian community deserves to have this event in the country. We based our claim on the thriving agile and lean communities from 5 cities and on …
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One of the courses our customers request the most is the Certified ScrumMaster training. This is an introductory to intermediate level class that teaches the skills needing to start leading a self-organizing team. After one of the sessions this year, we asked Xavier Quesada Allue, the trainer, to tell us a bit more about his …
Rebecca Wirfs-Brock decided to give us an interview on more topics. She will be a speaker at I T.A.K.E. Unconference, Bucharest, 30-31 May 2013. During this video she explains the main reasons why she likes this event: the open space and the fact that it is a coding conference. Another topic of the interview is …
(Guest blog post by Jurgen De Smet, originally appeared on his blog. Republished with permission.) The hardest part of an organization, and therefore its management, is sharing the enthusiasm with the entire organization, especially when most of the people in there are making one-tenth to one-fiftieth of what top managers make. Selling the company to …
