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		<title>Do Better Scrum</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As a SUGSA Scrum Day sponsor I distributed a little booklet I compiled. I titled it &#8220;Do Better Scrum&#8221;. Since then several people has asked me for copies. And Tobias Meyer was kind enough to suggest several improvements. So here is the second edition which you can download and use as you wish. If you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.scrumsense.com/coaching/do-better-scrum</link>
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		<title>David Anderson coming to Cape Town in Feb 2010</title>
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I&#8217;m thrilled to announce that David Anderson will be in Cape Town from 4-12 February 2010 to conduct a series of events focussed on  Kanban Software Development.
David is credited with the first implementation of a kanban process for software development in 2005. David was a founder of the agile movement through his involvement in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.scrumsense.com/events/david-anderson-feb-2010</link>
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		<title>Measuring for Results</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At the first South African Scrum Day, held in Cape Town on 1 September, 2009, I gave a talk on the topic of agile metrics. You can just download the slides and save yourself the pain of listening to me!

Peter Hundermark &#8211; Agile Metrics from Carlo Kruger on Vimeo.
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		<link>http://www.scrumsense.com/coaching/measuring-for-results</link>
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		<title>TED talk on motivation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Watch and listen as Dan Pink tells us what we already know in our hearts: extrinsic motivators are ineffective for complex work!

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		<link>http://www.scrumsense.com/miscellaneous/ted-talk-on-motivation</link>
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		<title>Agile Metrics</title>
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We all know the saying &#8220;measurement drives behaviour&#8221;. Therefore Agilists are understandably wary when management demands metrics to prove that their investment in Agile practices is paying off.
I&#8217;ve done some work to identify a small set of Agile metrics that I believe to be helpful. I have drawn particular inspiration from an open space workshop [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.scrumsense.com/coaching/metrics</link>
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		<title>Public Certified Scrum Training Courses for 2009</title>
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We&#8217;ve just scheduled Certified ScrumMaster and Certified Scrum Product Owner courses for the remainder of 2009.
Briefly:

CSM Gauteng 04-05 August
CSM Cape Town 02-03 September
CSPO Gauteng 22-23 September
CSM Gauteng 03-04 November
CSM Cape Town 01-02 December

The course fee is R7800 per person, excluding VAT. We offer discounts for multiple registrations from one organisation. We also reserve some places [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.scrumsense.com/training/public-certified-scrum-training-courses-for-2009</link>
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		<title>Running, tested features revisited</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Five years ago, almost to the day, Ron Jeffries wrote a great post entitled &#8220;A Metric Leading to Agility&#8220;. In it he coined the term &#8220;Running Tested Features&#8221;.
More recently he has talked about another helpful metric for teams transitioning to Agile. It is &#8220;Running Automated Tests&#8221;. For those who need some guidance about choosing the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.scrumsense.com/miscellaneous/running-tested-features-revisited</link>
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		<title>The end of an era</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As Lean enthusiasts might be tempted to celebrate the demise of General Motors and the assumption by Toyota of the #1 auto maker rank, James P. Womack* gives us pause to think about the end of an era.
*Author of &#8220;The Machine That Changed the World : The Story of Lean Production&#8220;.
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		<link>http://www.scrumsense.com/miscellaneous/the-end-of-an-era</link>
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		<title>Hilton Giesenow talks on CI in Scrum</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last night&#8217;s 4th meeting of the Cape Town chapter of the Scrum User Group of South Africa was addressed by Hilton Giesenow on the topic of Continuous Integration in Scrum. Hilton is an MVP (C#) and Development Manager at Cape Town-based 3Fifteen. Intec kindly sponsored the venue and food, and Scrum Sense the drinks.

There is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.scrumsense.com/events/sugsa_04</link>
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		<title>Public certified Scrum Courses in June 2009</title>
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We&#8217;re running public Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) and Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) courses in Midrand and Cape Town during June 2009.
Briefly:
CSPO Midrand 08-09 June
CSM Midrand 10-11 June
CSPO Cape Town 22-23 June
CSM Cape Town 24-25 June
The cost is R9900 per person, including VAT. All courses include Scrum Alliance certification and membership.
This is your opportunity to pump [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.scrumsense.com/training/public-certified-scrum-courses-in-june-2009</link>
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