From Rowan.Bunning at softwarewithstyle.com Tue Jan 16 23:10:55 2007 From: Rowan.Bunning at softwarewithstyle.com (Rowan Bunning) Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 10:10:55 +1100 Subject: [Scrum-announce] ScrumRefresherCourse.html Message-ID: <3FCA75BD69794F08B29B4701DCEA4A0F@softwarewithstyle.com> Hi ScrumMasters, Please be advised that due to other development commitments, Software WithStyle has decided not to pursue the commercialization of its XML WithStyle product at this time. The Beta Program will soon be decommissioned and no further beta versions will be released until further notice. Thank you for your interest and support. Sincerely, Rowan Bunning XML WithStyle Product Manager -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.scrum.com.au/pipermail/scrum-announce/attachments/20070117/bb54ca8b/attachment.html From rowan.bunning at softwarewithstyle.com Tue Jan 23 23:35:18 2007 From: rowan.bunning at softwarewithstyle.com (Rowan Bunning) Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 10:35:18 +1100 Subject: [Scrum-announce] Free Presentation by Joseph Pelrine - February 5 Message-ID: <17065D5B-6FB9-4D00-8966-99B4AEF430B4@softwarewithstyle.com> As discussed on the SyXPAC list, we are lucky enough to have Joseph Pelrine giving a similar talk to the one that the audience at Agile 2006 loved last year. This should be relevant to anyone practicing any Agile method who would like a better understanding of why and how it works so as to be able to adapt it effectively to the organisation. Joseph?s work here is considered to be at the bleeding edge of Agile. Date: Monday, Feburary 5 Time: 6:30pm Location: Jacksons On George ? 176 George Street, Sydney The abstract for Joseph?s talk is as follows. How Agile works ? Agility and Social Complexity The use of so-called ?Agile? methods such as eXtreme Programming and Scrum has helped many software projects to success, although it?s not always clear why and how. An understanding of the roots of agility though, is a requirement for adopting and adapting agile processes in organisations. New research in the field of social complexity theory provides an explanation for when and how agile methods work. By using techniques from this relatively new field, developers and managers can more easily adapt agile methods to the idiosyncracies of specific organisations and projects, are more aware of weak signals that can lead to problems, and can design interventions to correct them. This talk provides a short introduction to social complexity theory, especially the Cynefin multi-ontological sense-making framework, and illustrates its application to agile software development. Some (fairly heavy) background material on the Cynifin sense-making framework can be found in Kurtz and Snowden?s paper titled The new dynamics of strategy: Sense-making in a complex and complicated world Note that this talk is on the eve of the Scrum Certification Course at the Swiss-Grand at Bondi Beach. This may be convenient for interstate people attending the course. It would be great if you could RSVP to this list so we all know who the Scrum-types are to look out for on the night. Cheers, Rowan. --- Rowan Bunning Certified Scrum Practitioner Wizard Information Services ph: (02) 62750 750 mob: 0423 655 007 email: Rowan.Bunning at wizardis.com.au www: www.wizardis.com.au -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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