In This Issue

• Jeff Sutherland on Scrum and Not-Scrum (video)
• Agile Estimation – Upfront EstimatesPart 1 pf 2
• Connect with the V1 Community
  VersionOne Product Training Guides
• Applying Agile Product Ownership within Teams
• Free Northwest Conference with Net Objectives
  January 18th in Seattle, WA

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Jeff Sutherland on Scrum and Not-Scrum

Scrum creator Jeff Sutherland guesses there are 120,000 Scrum teams holding standup meetings on any given working day. But how many are really doing Scrum? At QCon London 2006 he talked about "the Nokia test" which he likes to use to distinguish whether teams are doing Agile or only iterative process - or neither! He also revealed the connection between Scrum and the Mars robots.

View the talk HERE
(http://www.infoq.com/interviews/jeff-sutherland-scrum-rules)

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Agile Estimation – Upfront Estimates (part 1 of 2)

Mike Griffiths, board member of the Agile Alliance and the APLN, has written this two-part series on Agile estimation on his blog Leading Answers.

"First of all we need to understand that estimating software projects will always be problematic. It does not matter if it will be a traditional project or an agile one, software development projects are unique (we do not repeatedly build the same system) and the evaluation difficulties that make gathering upfront requirements tricky also make scoping and estimating hard too... "

Read the full blog post HERE
(http://leadinganswers.typepad.com/leading_answers/2007/11/agile-estimatio.html)

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Connect with the V1 Community

Looking for VersionOne product training? VersionOne offers a wide range of product training designed for key roles in your organization. Details for these classes and self-led training and product videos can be found on the VersionOne Community site.

Learn more HERE
(http://community.versionone.com/training/default.aspx)

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Applying Agile Product Ownership within Teams

By Jennifer W. Fawcett, Agile Product Owner Coach, agileproductowner.com

"I’ve seen agile work, first hand. I’ve seen an entire product development team STOP development on one fully beta-almost GA, totally-cool consumer-based web product, and begin development on an entirely new consumer-based web product (new direction, new concept, new codebase, new development language)...."

Read the article HERE
(http://agileproductowner.com/?p=6)

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Free 1 Day Conference in Seattle, WA. - January 18th

Effective Software Development Using Lean-Agile From Teams to Enterprises

Start with an Introduction to "draw the map" which you will follow, embark from Where to Start, navigate the Value Stream and the role of Scrum, explore Design Patterns, Product Portfolio Management, and Test-Driven Development.

Limited Space - Expected to "sell-out" prior to December 31.

Learn more HERE
(http://www.netobjectives.com/events/effective-software-lean-agile-seattle-jan-2008)

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