Attendees: Wake Forest (steve), Notre Dame (Scott, Tracy), Georgia Tech (Lori, Rich)

Updates:
GA Tech - Now have 2 Scrum rooms, had 2nd sprint review this week, met all deliverables, very successful. Great advantages from sprint review, implementing feedback right away. Challenge - dependencies on other projects.

Wake - Scrumming Banner upgrade. Productive sprint review meeting, changed way managing product backlog. Talked about different ideas for points - complexity points & how relate to hr estimates.

Attendees - Wake Forest (Steve), Georgia Tech (Rich), Notre Dame (Tracy)

Debrief on all-hands ScrumU mtg. Plan for future meetings: 2nd quarter - Lori to ID speaker, 3rd quarter - Q&A, 4th quarter - Kristine to ID speaker

Wake - Scrumming Banner Upgrade, combined teams - 7 people total. 1st sprint. Discussed user stories, burndown chart. Figuring out how to handle issues users find along the way. Feels somewhat like production support balance.

Attendees:
Notre Dame - Tracy, Mike G, Nina, Michelle S - actively Scrumming 3 teams
Clemson - John - Scrum wannabes, working up to it
Kristine - K Shannon Associates, Scrum coach, involved in Educause
Carnegie Melon - Clay, Scrum wannabes
Minnesota State Colleges & Universities - Dick, multiple teams in various stages of learning Agile/Scrum
UNC Greensboro - Joel, Scrum Wannabes, trained & ready
Virginia Tech - Ken, Scrum Wannabes
Savannah College of Art & Design - Ken, Actively scrumming
Wake Forest - Steve, Actively scrumming, 16 months

Attendees: Notre Dame (Tracy), Wake Forest (steve), Georgia Tech (Rich)

Planning large group session for 1/29 - Tracy will send notification.

Tracy - 3 projects actively Scrumming, going well, customers seeing value. Tracy working on gathering thoughts around "selling" scrum to your group.

Rich - Completed second scrum - Study abroad, complete in 3 psrints. Now are scrumming a parent portal project. Working through colocation challenges - keeping people in Scrum rooms.

Please mark your calendars for our next open forum ScrumU event. We will be hosting a virtual guest speaker, Joe Little. Joe will speak to us and field questions on "Just-In-Time (JIT) Agile Specifications in the Context of Business Value (BV) Engineering."

Time:
Fri, 12/04/2009 1:30pm - 2:30pm EST

Call-in Info:
Call-in toll-free number (US/Canada):
866-469-3239
Attendee access code: 374 019 11

Attendees:
Lori Sundal - Georgia Tech
Tracy Weber - Notre Dame

Updates:
Georgia Tech - Completed first sprint, end user seems happy, going well! In progress with Sprint 2. Team space being used between 10am-3pm, did a modified schedule so could deal with Production issues before and after Scrum time. One challenge, team members preferring to work in own offices. Also have team members who telecommute which they're figuring out how to accomodate. Some dependencies ID'd during first sprint, good learning. Team requested large whiteboard, clock, pig coasters - engraved.

ScrumU

Monthly Open Meeting

Friday, October 23, 2009
1:30 – 2:30 PM EST
Teleconference

Attendees:
Dick McMullen - Minnesota State Colleges and Universities
Lynn Secreast and Don Rankins – Appalachian State University
Pat Miller – University of Notre Dame
Rich Loftus and Lori Sundal – Georgia Institute of Technology
Kristine Shannon - K Shannon Assoc.
Ken Radlick - Grand Valley State
Renetta Brown - University of Alabama

Question 1

Attendees: NC Central University, Georgia Tech, Notre Dame

ND: Regrouping to carry forward after Scrummaster training for 22 people. One Scrum team ongoing for Faculty related project, another kicking off for Unviersity Relations, and another seems to be a good possibility for Performing Arts Center. Trying to figure out how we might Scrum given that a number of 3rd party software vendors are involved.

ScrumU

Monthly Open Meeting

Friday, September 25, 2009
1:30 – 2:30 PM EST
Teleconference

Attendees:
Dick McMullen - Minnesota State Colleges and Universities
Dennis Rush – Wentworth Institute of Technology
Joel Dunn – UNC-Greensboro
Janice Powell – Clemson University
Lynn Secreast and Don Rankins – Appalachian State University
Sweta Thakker – Owens Community College
Benoit McNicoll, Jr – Cornell University
Tracy Weber and Pat Miller – University of Notre Dame
Patrice Major – George Washington University
Greg Huseth and Lori Sundal – Georgia Institute of Technology

Attendees: Wake Forest, Notre Dame, Georgia Tech, Clemson, Cornell

Wake Forest – Moving from 2 week to 3 week sprints, response to more people taking PTO, planning taking a whole day, increased focus on improvement efforts, didn’t leave many work days. Hope to have more breathing room for planning the next sprint. Also working on involving customers earlier, evaluating complexity vs. hours on user stories – implications on velocity.

Notre Dame – Scrum training end of the month. New project kicking off, year long effort hope to use Scrum, space identified, team identified.