Scrum Alliance - Germany Scrum Gathering

The Munich Scrum Gathering was a great success! You can view all Speaker presentations here, or you can access them from the Munich Gathering's Program tab.

Announcing the Scrum Gathering in Munich, Germany - 19, 20 & 21 October 2009! Keynote speakers include Jeff Sutherland, and Mike Cohn.

The Scrum Gathering will be held at the Hilton Munich City.

So mark your calendar and plan to attend this interactive Scrum Gathering event with top industry leaders from around the world!

Limited space - past Scrum Gatherings sold out weeks in advance!

Please join us in thanking our sponsors.

Contact Name: Scrum Gathering
Contact Email: email

Dates:

19-21 Oct 2009

Venue:

Hilton Munich City

Address:

Rosenheimer Strasse 15

Munich 81667

Price:

Registration fee: €1,600 member and €1,800 non-member will apply.

Welcome to the Scrum Alliance Germany Scrum Gathering – October 19-21, 2009! Please find program details and Gathering information listed below:

Location: Hilton Munich City Hotel
Rosenheimer Strasse 15
81667 Munich, Germany
Phone: +49 (0)89 4804 0
Fax: +49 (0)89 4804 4804
E-mail: info.munich@hilton.com
Web address: www.munich-city.hilton.com

For room locations please click here to view the PDF file of the conference layout of the room space/floor plan.

Gathering presentations provided by each speaker and will be posted as a PDF file available on the Scrum Alliance website at www.scrumalliance.org after the Scum Gathering.

Germany Scrum Gathering Selection Committee included: Tobias Mayer (committee chair), Simon Bennett, Andreas Schliep, Boris Gloger, Ken Schwaber, Jim Cundiff and Jodi Gibson

The Scrum Gathering offers a variety of material representing a mix of subject-based presentations, experience papers/case studies, panel discussions, interactive Scrum clinic workshops and keynote presentations. The Germany Scrum Gathering will feature four main categories identified as indicated below:

CI – Coaching & continuous Improvement
RW – Scrum in the Real World
PO – Product Owner
O – Other/Miscellaneous

19 October 2009

Time	Events	Speaker & Details
8:00 - 5:00 pm	Registration – Strauss Foyer	All Scrum Gathering learning rooms set theatre style
8:30 - 10:00 am	Opening Address – Ballroom Strauss A&B	Opening remarks by Tom Mellor, Chairman of Scrum Alliance Board of Directors. Presentation by Jeff Sutherland, co-founder Scrum
10:00 - 10:30 am	Coffee Break - Strauss Foyer
10:30 am - Noon	Multiple, Concurrent Breakout Sessions. All Scrum Levels.	O - The Scrum Clinic: Coordinated by Tobias Mayer and featuring many Scrum Experts / Dialog Room : Deborah Hartmann-Preuss, Liz Keogh and others - Salon Studer CI-Coaching Scrum Teams with a User Centered Approach: Mike Sutton – Salon Bialas PO-Zuerst jagten Sie StoryPoints: Jodok Batlogg & Boris Gloger – Salon Orff RW-Scrum and the World Crisis: Rafael Sabbagh - Marcos Garrido – Salon Von Weber O- Coaching Self-Organizing Teams: Joseph Pelrine - Salon EGK RW-Enterprise Agile at Symbian and Nokia: Nick Clark – Salon Reger
Noon - 1:15 pm	Lunch	Self-organizing and Subtle Control, Friends or Enemies: Mike Cohn
1:30 - 3:00 pm	Multiple, Concurrent Breakout Sessions. All Scrum levels.	O-The Scrum clinic: Coordinated by Tobias Mayer and featuring many Scrum Experts / Dialog Room : Deborah Hartmann-Preuss, Liz Keogh and others – Salon Studer CI –goto (‘scrum’)- The real deal: Sebastian Schürmann (CHIP Xonio Online GmbH)- Salon Regar PO-Why Release Planning Works: Dan Bergh Johnsson – Salon Von Weber RW-Agiles Offshoring MitScrum: Mark Hediger – Salon EGK CI - The Prisoner’s Dilemma. Applying Game Theory to Agile Contracting: Simon Bennett – Salon Bialas O-Dilbert Considered Harmful? Social Objects in Agile Teams: David Harvey – Salon Orff
3:00 - 3:30 pm	Coffee Break - Strauss Foyer
3:30 - 5:00 pm	Multiple, Concurrent Breakout Sessions. All Scrum levels.	O- The Scrum Clinic: Coordinated by Tobias Mayer and featuring many Scrum Experts / Dialog Room : Deborah Hartmann-Preuss, Liz Keogh and others – Salon Studer CI - Minimizing Waste Through Minimalist Estimation: Alan Atlas – Salon EGK PO- How to Avoid Product Owner Pitfalls: Roman Pichler – Salon Bialas CI – Effective Coaching: Lowell Lindstrom and Tom Mellor – Salon Reger RW-Agile at Telefonica R&D –catalyst for innovative culture: Gemma Hornos - Monica Izquierdo – Salon Orff CI – Kicking ScrumBut: Rowan Bunning – Von Weber
5:00 - 6:30 pm	Title Sponsor Reception at Strauss Foyer	Scrum Alliance reception with title sponsor Version One

20 October 2009

Time	Event	Speaker & Details
8:00 - 9:00 am	Strauss Foyer – Registration & Information
9:00 - 10:00 am	Keynote Address – Ballroom Strauss A&B	O- Making Agile matter to the bottom line by understanding group dynamics by Patric Palm – Salon EGK
10:00 - 11:30 am	Multiple, Concurrent Breakout Sessions. All Scrum levels.	O- The Scrum Clinic: Coordinated by Tobias Mayer and featuring many Scrum Experts / Dialog Room : Deborah Hartmann-Preuss, Liz Keogh and others – Salon Studer CI –Being a Scrum Coach - Panel: Rachel Davies – Peter Hundermark - Siegfried Kaltenecker - Christoph Mathis (moderator) - Bent Myllerup – Salon Orff & Von Weber PO-Redefining the Traditional View of Risk: Mark Summers – Salon Bialas RW - Scrum Plus – Enhanced or Tainted? Joseph Pelrine (moderator) - A panel discussion with voices from various disciplines and one voice of “pure Scrum” – Salon EGK PO – Enterprise Complex Backlog Management: Erez Katzav – Salon Reger
11:30 am - 1:00 pm	Lunch	LUNCH HELD IN Strauss Foyer
1:00 - 2:30 pm	Multiple, Concurrent Breakout Sessions. All Scrum levels.	O- The Scrum Clinic: Coordinated by Tobias Mayer and featuring many Scrum Experts / Dialog Room : Deborah Hartmann-Preuss, Liz Keogh and others – Salon Studer PO track – Good product owner panel discussion: Simon Bennett – Salon Orff & Von Weber CI-Practical Tools for Scrum Teams: Gwyn Morfey - Laurie Young – Salon Bialas RW- Scrum@Allianz.de: Berthold Schreiber, Josef Scherer – Salon EGK PO-Practical Tools for the Product Owner –focus, value & flow: Serge Beaumont – Salon Reger
2:30 – 3:00 pm	Coffee Break – Strauss Foyer
3:00 – 4:30 pm	Keynote: Ballroom Strauss A&B	SA Panel Discussion Tom Mellor Chairman of Scrum Alliance Board of Directors, Lowell Linstrom, Managing Director.

21 October 2009

Time	Event	Speaker & Details
8:00 - 9:00 am	Registration & Information – Strauss Foyer
9:00 - 10:30 am	Ballroom Strauss A&B	Gaming presentation – general lessons learned/self organizing teams – Harvey Wheaton
10:30 - 11:00 am	Coffee Break – Strauss Foyer
11:00 – 12:30	Multiple, Concurrent Breakout Sessions.	O - TheScrum Clinic: Coordinated by Tobias Mayer and featuring many Scrum Experts / Dialog Room : Deborah Hartmann-Preuss, Liz Keogh and others – Salon Studer PO-10 Contract forms for your next Agile Project: Peter Stevens – Salon Bialas O- Legal Scrum: Raising the Bar, Iteratively: Regina Mullen – Salon EGK CI –Architekturvision and Inkrementeller Entwurf by Stephan Roock – Salon Reger RW – The Scrum Pandemic – A Diffeent Approach to Enterprise Transformation by Alan Atlas - Salon Orff & Von Weber
12:30 am - 2:00 pm	Lunch	LUNCH HELD IN Restaurant Sum Gasteig
2:00 – 3:30 pm	Multiple, Concurrent Breakout Sessions.	O- The Scrum Clinic: Coordinated by Tobias Mayer and featuring many Scrum Experts / Dialog Room : Deborah Hartmann-Preuss, Liz Keogh and others – Salon Studer CI-Value Flow & Waste Elimination: Markus Andrezak – Salon Reger PO- Crafting Better Scrum Requirements: Victoria Hall– Salon EGK RW- Epic Fail: a Humorous Look into Scrum in the Enterprise failure pattern: Nigel Baker - Paul Goddard – Salon Bialas CI – The Loop of Facilitation: Peter Beck – Salon Von Weber RW-Report from Purgatory – Adopting Scrum in a large enterprise: Jurgen Hoffmann – Salon Orff
3:30 – 5:00 pm	Ballroom Strauss A&B	Closing words by Tom Mellor, Chairman of Scrum Alliance Board of Directors. Scrum Clinic wrap up and impromptu workshops like “learn Scrum games” and network sessions for attendees available to stay

Please join us in thanking the sponsors of the Germany Scrum Gathering:

Germany Scrum Gathering 2009 Keynote Speakers

Jeff Sutherland, Scrum Training Institute & Scrum, Inc.

Jeff Sutherland started the first Scrum at Easel Corporation in 1993. He worked with Ken Schwaber to emerge Scrum as a formal process at OOPSLA ’95. Together, they extended and enhanced Scrum at many software companies and IT organizations and helped write the Agile Manifesto. Jeff is Chairman of the Scrum Training Institute and CEO of Scrum, Inc. powered by OpenView Venture Partners. He is Agile coach to the OpenView venture group, which runs all its internal operations with Scrum, as well as their $300M portolio of software companies. As Senior Advisor to OpenView he focuses on using Scrum to transform companies as well as empower software developers. In his last position as CTO of PatientKeeper, his Scrum implementation was the key to quadrupled revenue in 2007. OpenView is using Scrum to create similar high performance portfolio companies. Jeff will share the secret sauce that helps development teams radically improve productivity and quality while providing a more rewarding and fun working environment for developers.

Mike Cohn, Mountain Goat Software

Mike Cohn is the founder of Mountain Goat Software, a process and project management consultancy and training firm. He is the author of Agile Estimating and Planning, User Stories Applied for Agile Software Development, and the upcoming Succeeding With Agile. With more than twenty years of experience, Mike has previously been a technology executive in companies of various sizes, from startup to Fortune 40. A frequent magazine contributor and conference speaker, Mike is a founding member of the Scrum Alliance and the Agile Alliance.

Patric Palm, Hansoft

As CEO and co-founder of Hansoft, Patric discusses project management and QA best practices on a daily basis with clients in Australia, Asia, Europe and North America. Hansoft is a production management tool used for agile and lean development, collaborative scheduling, real-time reporting, bug tracking / QA, workload coordination, portfolio and document management used in game development and publishing as well as within IT, telecom and the space industry. Patric also serves as board member on a number of non-profit organizations and is an instructor within the Swedish Air Force.

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To register at the Gathering hotel please use the below link to receive the Scrum Gathering discount hotel room rate - hotel rooms are limited so reserve your room early. Reserve Hotel

Hilton Munich City Hotel
Tel: +49-89-48040
Fax: +49-89-48044804

Rosenheimer Strasse 15
Munich 81667
Germany
http://www.hilton.com/en/hi/groups/personalized/MUCCHTW_GSCRA/index.jhtml