ThoughtWorks is organizing a one day seminar called “The Master Class Series”. They have planned it in two cities. 1. Bangalore : Saturday 19th May, 2007....
Hi Everyone, We work in an distributed agile fashion and use the Scrum methodolgy. Most of the times everything works great. We have satisfying standups, good ...
Vikas, We have gone through all this Few more things are - Traditionally we follow hierarchy within our teams We don't treat customer as part of our team but...
Dear Members, I am Dr.Sankar working for an Engineering College. Students passing out of the colleges are going to software industries. 99 % of our students...
Dear Sankar, Glad to hear that you are taking this initiative. Here are my initial thoughts and basic questions: One can learn Agile methods by practicing...
Another one is that I find creating self organising teams and flat hierarchies to be a lot more difficult. This may be due to culture or may be due to habits...
A few guys from Thoughtworks used to teach Extreme Programming at IIIT-Bangalore (this was way back in 2001, I'm not sure if the program is still going on). ...
Vikas, From your email, I feel that there could be a bigger problem than just a culture issue. From my coaching/mentoring experience with distributed Agile...
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Hi Venkatesh, Anil and Siddharta, Thanks for your replies. I am somewhat confused by the hierarchy related points. I understand that a flat structure...
... Yeah like I said it might be a habit from previous jobs. Senior people felt they should have more authority than others in the team, while freshers...
Hi, Over the last few months I've been developing a tool for iteration and release planning in distributed scrum environments. I've completed the first version...
Hi! I would like to network with the other people in mumbai who are working on Agile methodology Regards simi Niren <ngp2k@...> wrote: Hi Dhaval, Nice...
My apologies for not getting back to the group in such a long time. As of now, this is where we stand as far as the conference goes: We were planning to...
Hi Naresh, thanks for the update. fwiw, early july works for me, and if it would be interesting to have on the agenda a talk about yahoo's use of scrum, just...
I feel we need to re-consider the dates because organizing the conference at an academic environment has 2 motivations ... 1. involvement of the student...
Naren Sounds great. I was in Bangalore last three weeks and just made it back to Seattle. Let me know how if there is a way i can participate as a volunteer ...
Thanks Ajay. You have really valid points. Apart from the 2 motivations you have listed, there is a slightly more abstract motivation; .i.e. spreading the...
Namaste Group, Finally after 3 years, we have moved ASCI website to a new host so that we can run the website using Rails. This will help people maintaining...
Hi All, I'm a fairly recent member to your group, and am also a member of the China Agile, India Agile, and other Australia Agile groups. There is a big piece...
Hi Ben, ... I worked in Singapore for four and a half years and introduced agile in my company. One of the frustrating things was not finding an agile user...
Thanks for the support Siddharta. I indeed contact Jeff De Luca company in Australia in respect to that project to ask, as I was curious whether the culture...
Thanks to everyone who volunteered to help. Based on the response I've got from people, I get an impression that we should postpone the conference by a month...
Hi folks, I have the same concerns. We are just a month away from the proposed conference dates (6th-7th July) and there doesn't seem to be enough momentum as...
I think given the constraints, we should consider postponing the conference by a month or so... IISc is a very nice venue... I was there for FOSS.IN 2006......
I want to provide a link to the 2nd annual survey of the agile development market, and I think the agile community will benefit from 5 minutes of individual...
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