Microsoft Regional Director | Scrum Master | Speaker
Adam Cogan General, GitHub, Scrum github, GitHub Issues, GitHub Projects, Project Management, Scrum 1 Comment
Learn how you can run your development projects more effectively using Github. Adam will show you how to use GitHub Issues and Projects to get the most out of Scrum.
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There has been a lot of important changes to the Scrum Guide. Find out what they are from Australia’s first Scrum Master.
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It’s no secret that I love Scrum. I’m a Scrum.org certified trainer and delight in teaching courses across the country. We follow Scrum at SSW – not just the developers, but the graphic design, marketing, and multi-media teams as well. I even use it at home with my family and for my kids’ soccer tea
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Figure: BCE SPARROW uses a ‘metro’ design with all the latest Nuget packages for elegant, consistent and usable design The benefits of continually improving our processes and practices around the Scrum methodology were never more apparent than with the project we have recently completed for Brisbane
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How do we make good Product Owners At my Teched talks this month (Australia and New Zealand) I talked about Product Owners. After my session there were lots of discussion around the Product Owner Scrum role, and what makes a good one. I loved hearing the stories of dysfunction about Product Owners w
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Update: Lei Xu has also posted this in Chinese. Let’s continue the story of a hair raising project. Nothing is small in China! Read Part I here. We’ve looked at the people factors, and now let’s look at the technical part. Lesson 3: Tune your SQL indexes – back to basics TIP: Read SSW Rules
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Update: Lei Xu has also posted this in Chinese. Recently Lei Xu and I completed a hair-raising TFS 2012 project. We hit some snags trying to optimize Work Items with 20,000,000 records. Let me tell you the story… It was completed shortly after arriving home from the MVP Summit in Redmond. It was luc
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Watch this SSW TV special video on “Estimating Business Value to order your backlog” and see a real-life video of a brand new Scrum team learn how to use the “Business Value” field. Yesterday I told you about the lightening fast, dead sexy movie site, ‘Event Cinemas’ that went live. Today I have a r
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A big thank you to Robin Maes, Andrew Turner and the whole Event Cinemas team who worked tirelessly with the SSW’s guys to deliver a great looking, super fast, site that was on time and to the fixed budget. Thanks to the Telerik Sitefinity team, our favourite Bulgarians, for giving us the updates wi
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I’m in India at the moment with Damian Brady and Adam Stephensen running a Professional Scrum Developer course. The training is with a group of 24 guys with varying roles – developers, testers, architects, and managers. At the end of the course, they will all have the opportunity to sit an online ex