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.

ScrumU
“All-In” Meeting
Friday, August 14, 2009
1:30 – 2:30 PM

Agenda

1. Intro and Overview of ScrumU and “Daily” Format for This Meeting - Kristine Giannelli (5 minutes)
2. “Daily” Updates from Each School (target: 3-4 minutes per school)
3. Wrap up and Proposal for Next Meeting – September 18 or 25, 2009 (5 minutes)

For those entirely new to Scrum, the "daily" format consists of each team member (in this case, each institution) answering three questions:
1. What have you done since the last ScrumU meeting regarding implementing Scrum at your institution?

Attendees: Notre Dame, Cornell, Georgia Tech, Clemson

Georgia Tech - Completing first "real" sprint!! Grade entry function, part of larger ERP upgrade. Challenges - Office logistics, gainig buy-in to new approach.

Clemson - Thinking about how might fit Scrum into an upgrade project. There is one small project using Scrum, kicked off earlier this week. Functional user buy-in.

If you are interested in learning more about Scrum and how to implement it at your institution or if you would like to improve on your implementation of Scrum, please plan to join us in our first of hopefully many all-inclusive ScrumU gathering.

We will meet virtually via audio conference in a "daily" format.
For those entirely new to Scrum, the "daily" format consists of each team member (in this case, each institution) answering three questions:
1. What have you done since the last ScrumU meeting regarding implementing Scrum at your institution?

Notre Dame
Tracy Weber

Georgia Tech
Lori Sundal
Rich Loftus
Jewel Coleman

Wake Forest University
Kristine Giannelli

Notre Dame
ND went live with their first scrum project which started in Feb.
Will be hosting CSM training in Sept for their team.

Georgia Tech
Identifying space within the environment for Scrum activities - thinking creatively. Looking at space needs overall.
Finished first scrum for grade entry/correction. On the shelf until mid-term grading. Made it date based for entering grades. Four week effort.

Wake Forest University

Attendees: Clemson, Notre Dame, Wake Forest, GA Tech

Educause SE Update: 4:30 – 5:30 timeslot, up against “Greek night”  10-15 people turned out. Lori & Kristine did basic intro to Scrum, then GA Tech, NC Central, Wake Forest – what they’ve done to date.
Slides are in gmail docs. Wondering if Kristine will put on website?

Talked about ScrumU website. Jonathan checked if anyone has requested access –2 requests in the last few days.

Updates:

In software development and implementation in higher ed, we are being challenged to do more with less due to current economic conditions while the drive for improved quality and delivering to rigorous deadlines continues to increase.

Georgia Tech, Wake Forest and NCCU will share experiences in implementing agile development methodologies using Scrum. We will include how we created a collaborative forum among our institutions with Notre Dame and Cornell that we call "ScrumU" to share ideas and challenges while celebrating successes in implementing a new software development methodology.

Welcome to the first official website for ScrumU! This website was designed by some of the early members of ScrumU. We want to reach the higher education community as broadly as possible. This website is a start to reach that objective. Please join us and discuss your work with Scrum! Ask questions - give feedback on the website, on ScrumU, on collaborating. We need all of us to make ScrumU its best.