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  1. Neue BMW Webseite – State of the Art.

    Februar 25, 2012 by Tino Seeber

    Na endlich!

    Nach mehr als 1 Jahr Arbeit ist sie fertig – die neue BMW Webseite. Zunächst für den Markt in Österreich wird sie demnächst weltweit “gelauncht”.

    Zusammen mit Boris Gloger habe bei BMW Scrum eingeführt und zu Beginn des Projektes die beiden Team Content & Communication übernommen. Schön zu sehen, dass Kleinigkeiten woran das Team sich tagelang den Kopf zerbrochen hat, nun reibungslos funktionieren. In dieser Zeit habe ich viel gelernt und ich hoffe, das Team auch das ein oder andere von mir.

    In jedem Fall bin ich sehr stolz, dass ein so klasse Produkt dabei herausgekommen ist – das derzeit der automobile Benchmark in Europa ist.

    BMW ist zudem die beste deutsche Marke im globalen Social Media Ranking.




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  2. New Scrum Guide 2011 – a lot of Changes.

    August 9, 2011 by Tino Seeber

    The New Scrum Guide 2011 is released by Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland. A lot of Changes are made – details will follow a soon as I have read the whole story.

    Download the Newest Scrum Guide – 2011.


  3. Jeff Sutherland coaches Google

    Oktober 15, 2010 by Tino Seeber

    Or: Self-Organization – The Secret Sauce for Improving your Scrum team

    Jeff Sutherland at Google’s Headquarters teaching Google Developers in Scrum


  4. How to increase Productivity in a Scrum Team.

    Oktober 10, 2010 by Tino Seeber

    Increasing the productivity of a Scrum Team is one of the Scrum Master’s top aims.

    Here the facts you should consider for increasing a Scrum Team’s productivity:

    - Communicate

    - Work as a Team

    - Work in 2-weeks sprints

    - Use small user stories that can be completed in a day or two

    - Work on a small number of stories at once

    - Product Owner has to write clear user stories and acceptance tests

    - Scrum Master has to identify and solve impediments

    - Use a strong and clear Level of Done

    - Individuals may (should!) cross disciplines to get things done without unpredictable wait times

    - Make achievable commitments based on past results


  5. Scrum Master Checklist

    Oktober 8, 2010 by Tino Seeber

    Four Pages helping a Scrum Master succeed:

    Download Scrum Master Checklist (PDF) – english (by Michael James)

    Download Scrum Master Checklist (PDF) – german (translated by The Codovation Blog)


  6. Presentation: Why Scrum Works.

    Oktober 7, 2010 by Tino Seeber


  7. I like: Scrum2Go.

    September 26, 2010 by Tino Seeber

    Doing Scrum and looking for an App that will support you?

    Scrum2Go is a simple focused App for iPhone and iPod Touch, that covers all everyday activities in Scrum life cycle. With team velocity tracking and impediments notifyer.


  8. The Marshmallow Challenge.

    September 20, 2010 by Tino Seeber

    Or: Build a Tower, build a Team.

    It’s a team exercise in which the participants have to build a tower using a supply of (dry) spaghetti, tape, string and marshmallow. The goal is build the highest structure possible within 18 minutes.

    It turns out that recent Kindergarten grads do better than the average adults. And MBA’s do worse than average adults. But why is that?

    The Kids work iterative (like Scrum) and get instant feedback on what they do. They start working on the problem immediately, make several attempts to solve the problem – they iterate. The adults tended to look for the “single right plan” (watererfall) and tended to think about the marshmallow late in the process. They often produced only one actual prototype, just before the deadline – usually to watch it fall down shortly after the marshmallow is attached.


  9. The 14 golden Rules of being a good Scrum Master.

    September 16, 2010 by Tino Seeber

    There are a lot of books, papers and articles out there, explaining, what Scrum is and what a good Scrum Master should do or shouldn’t do. I read this and based on my experiences as a Scrum Master I put these quintessences together in The 12 golden Rules of being a good Scrum Master:

    A good Scrum Master …

    1. … implements the scrum process and coaches all roles and stakeholders.

    2. … finds and shows up impediments and problems.

    3. … is responsible for solving impediments and problems.

    4. … is an info hub, who spreads informations to all roles and stakeholders.

    5. … is leader of the team.

    6. … protects the team from external influences.

    7. … motivates the team.

    8. … moderates the roles and stakeholders in the scrum process.

    9. … comes to a decision in urgent cases.

    10. … introduces Scrum into the organization.

    11. … is a leader personallity, who has no fear losing his job in changing the status quo.

    12. … is responsible for the improvement of team productivity.

    13. … shows the team new ways of working and solving problems.

    14. … works together withe the Product Owner to maximize ROI.


  10. Scrum Master.

    September 15, 2010 by Tino Seeber

    Die Rolle des ScrumMasters ist die bedeutendste Rolle im gesamten Scrum Prozess. Er führt ein Team, hilft diesem Team Höchstleistungen zu erzielen, zeigt ständig Verbesserungen auf und unterstützt die Anfordererseite dabei, erfolgreich mit dem Entwicklungsteam zu arbeiten.

    Boris Gloger