Say Hi to Agile!

London ScrumGathering Submission Successful!

Congratulations , Daniel Gu!

Your submission, ”Evolution to Revolution: eBay APD’s Journey of Scrum Adoption”, has been accepted into the programme for the London Global ScrumGathering on the 11^th-13^th of October 2011.

The submission review committee has this feedback for you:

“Thank you for your submission – DO you think this wil last the full 90 minutes? Your submission has been moved to the new “War Stories” stream”

The ScrumAlliance will be sending out further details soon, but in the mean time, feel free to use this logo:

And publish the fact that you are presenting! Tweet, blog, and tell your friends. J

If you have any questions, please feel free to drop me a mail. Thank you for your time and effort and I look forward to seeing you soon!

Regards,

Nigel

Nigel Baker

Chair: London Global ScrumGathering 2011

2011/08/18 – 9:42 pm | By qgu | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments (0)

Do You Want To Be Flushing Water?

I went to observe a CST’s class recently and it got me big loud laugher when he said, “Calling people ‘resource’ is rude! Toilet paper is resource – you use it and then throw it away. People is not resource!” Later on I spoke in an all-hands meeting announcing new Agile product release for the …

2011/02/13 – 11:31 pm | By Daniel Gu | Posted in Agile, Training | Comments (0)

Training from the BACK of the Room

I feel fortunate to be able to attend Sharon Bowman’s “Training from the BACK of the room” training in Seattle during Dec. 6-7. It’s one of, if not the one, best training I’ve been so far. The content was informative and practical, the delivery was perfect, and more importantly, the learner group there was great …

2010/12/21 – 11:24 pm | By Daniel Gu | Posted in Agile, Scrum, Training | Comments (1)

Scrum Team Survey

It’s a bit unexpected that our AgileTour presentation “Kung Fun Panda” drew some attention to the survey we did for our Scrum Teams. I guess practical tips are always preferred to theoretical stuff :). The below questions are just a sample. You can create your own based on your context, especially those that focus on …

2010/11/15 – 3:22 pm | By Daniel Gu | Posted in Agile, Scrum | Comments (1)

Why “Say Hi to Agile”?

It’s a lame name – I know that :). It’s mainly due to the domain name I can get. However, after the name was chosen, I began to seek deeper meanings of it – to lipstick the pig if you will. Agile is an intimidatingly beautiful creature that people are all talking about. People are …

2010/11/09 – 10:58 pm | By Daniel Gu | Posted in Agile | Comments (0)

Is Scrum adoption personality-dependent?

“Why they just cannot ‘get it’? ” I always hear people complain like that when they’ve spent much time and effort telling people why Scrum works but get frustrated by great skepticism. Frankly, I complain the same. It even makes me begin to question my presentation skill sometimes (which is almost as serious as I …

2010/10/20 – 12:12 am | By Daniel Gu | Posted in Agile | Comments (0)

Four Agile Days in a Row!

10/14 and 15: AgileChina 2010 in Beijing. Its 5th time, still a great event: many participants, many familiar faces, some outstanding keynotes – some good inspirations. Should blog about it more later. 10/16: First CST/CSC (and potentials) Gathering in China! One of my greatest day this year so far. A historic event – too bad I …

2010/10/17 – 11:42 pm | By Daniel Gu | Posted in Agile | Comments (0)

敏捷实践如何应对团队的五种机能障碍

For every post in Chinese, it seems like this theme doesn’t work well – it won’t recognize enough English characters to stop its abstract before showing a “read more” link. But I really like this theme so this paragraph is a meaningless placeholder. If you know a better way, please let me know. Thanks! 中文内容请见下文。 …

2010/10/12 – 11:00 pm | By Daniel Gu | Posted in Agile | Comments (0)

My Interesting interactions with some PMPs

New blog site, old article I wrote… “First of all, I’m now a PMP too, so this is not to laugh at or point finger to any specific individual or group. I got that credential half year after I became a Certified ScrumMaster, and I remember I described the preparation for PMP exam (mainly reading PMBOK …

2010/10/12 – 10:43 pm | By Daniel Gu | Posted in Agile | Comments (0)

go to AgileChina 2010 tomorrow…

My 20th flight this year! That’s a bunch of carbon footprints…

2010/10/12 – 8:23 pm | By Daniel Gu | Posted in Life | Comments (0)