SeattleScrum August 28th: Growing Pains – Scale Hurts.

Presentation Found Here: Scaling Hurts (PDF)

Topic: Growing Pains – Scale Hurts.

Vibhu Srinivasan and Ed Kraay present their experiences working on a scaled Scrum project. For one year, five interrelated scrum teams worked to develop a game, inspecting and adapting along the way. This practical session will share the first hand experiences and hard fought lessons on what worked and what didn’t when we scaled scrum . Vibhu will share the technical practices and Ed will describe the project management tips and tricks.

About the Speakers
Vibhu Srinivasan is and Agile Coach, Architect and technologist from the Seattle area . He has an engineering background and an MBA from School of Business , UW Madison. He is an expert in the financial domain particularly insurance and brokerage systems. He had the unfortunate title of Lead Architect in the game services project that he is talking about. He as coached many teams on Agile Engineering practices, Scrum and other Agile techniques.He blogs at http://AgileFAQ.net. He can be reached at vibhu@netpresenvalu.com

Ed Kraay is a ScrumMaster and agile coach. He has been working with Scrum and XP teams for four years and software teams for eight. The last book he read on Scrum was “Manage It” by Johanna Rothman and the last book he read for pleasure was “Two Years Before the Mast” by Henry Dana.

Meeting Date and Agenda
Thursday, August 28th, 2008
6:00pm Food & Drink
6:30pm Some words of Thanks
6:45pm Topic: The Ball Point Game
7:30-ish End of talk, general questions etc.

Location
Qpass Corporate Headquarters
2211 Elliott Avenue
Suite 400
Seattle, Washington 98121
Phone: +1.206.447.6000

Further inquiries can also be emailed to SeattleScrum at Gmail dot com. This announcement may also be found at Seattle Scrums home page: http://www.SeattleScrum.org.