Posted on April 29th, 2009 in Silver Catalyst by siddharta || No Comment
Silver Catalyst can be used to track impediments in an intuitive way. Here is how:
Every task on the taskboard has a “Block task” button. Clicking this button will open a dialog where you can enter the reason for the block.
A blocked task will turn red so that it can be identified easily. The block button will be replaced with the “Resolve block” button. Click this when the block has been removed.
The event stream will notify the block, including the reason, plus when the block is removed.
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Posted on April 16th, 2009 in Chennai Agile User Group by siddharta || No Comment
Venkat Subramaniam is in Chennai on the 20th of April and will speak on Fallacies of Agile Development.
Date: Monday, 20th April, 2009
Time: 6 PM
Where: Gandhinagar Club, Adyar (Map)
Duration: 2 hrs
Cost: FREE
This event is being sponsored by Silver Stripe Software.
More information on the event, including the registration procedure, can be found here.
Posted on April 5th, 2009 in Agile by siddharta || No Comment
One of the responsibilities of a Scrum Master is too keep abreast of what other agile teams are doing so that they can apply ideas to their own project. You can always take CSM courses or read books, but the content is always going to be slightly behind the curve. With the Internet around, what better way to keep abreast than to read a bunch of good agile blogs. Without further ado, here is my list of ten agile blogs that every ScrumMaster should read:
You will find the above blogs both insightful and not afraid to step outside standard Agile conventions. Just what is needed to keep up your continuous education in Agile. Oh and add the blog you are reading right now to the list 
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