Agile Software Development

In this tutorial I demonstrate how you can manage your Scrum Product Backlog in a very simple Excel sheet based on a popular free template. Watch this screencast if you want to get started with Scrum. You will see how to get started, how to detail, inject and remove requirements, how to build burndown and velocity charts.

You can download the somewhat lower quality version of the tutorial from Google Video.

Short summary on the Jeff Sutherland's story about how and why Scrum has been taken into use by Yahoo and Google AdWords.

Yahoo story
1. At some point Yahoo was a lot of "organic" company. There were many small teams with power to do pretty much anything with rather little discipline present.

An exciting story on how a person in the deepest regret, having no faith in himself can find its predestination and joy in life by having a close look on what really motivates him, not on what he thinks motivates him.

Check out a collection of advertisement-like [mostly] funny videos at Agile Advert. This collection was initially gathered for the Agile2007 conference.

A small demo of using the speech recognition technology that actually works. On the following video I am adding Jim Miller who works for Google to my phonebook and immediately voice dial him in a very noisy conference dinner environment.

The best thing is in that the technology is not really new, the similar quality voice recognition system is built into all the Nokia smartphones for couple of years already. So if you've bought a Nokia smartphone lately, chances are you can do the same trick with your own phone. In 40+ languages.

Thank you for playing in the movie, Jim!