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Announcing the Scrum Gathering in Munich, Germany - 19, 20 & 21 October 2009! Keynote speakers include Ken Schwaber, 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! Register before 1 August 2009 to receive a discount.

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:	Register before 1 August 2009 for a discount! Scrum Alliance Members: €1,200 Non-member: €1,400 CST/CSC payment: €900 The early discount rates are available until 1 August 2009. After August 1st the rates of €1,600 member and €1,800 non-member will apply.

Presentations are now being accepted for the Germany Gathering.They will be reviewed by a selection committee whose members include Ken Schwaber, Andreas Schliep, Boris Gloger, Jim Cundiff, Jodi Gibson, Simon Bennett and Tobias Mayer (Committee Chair).

When the program is finalized we will post here.

The full program is still being finalized, but we are pleased to announce the following keynote speakers.

Germany Scrum Gathering 2009 Keynote Speakers

Ken Schwaber, Control Chaos

Ken Schwaber is a Scrum evangelist. Ken developed Scrum with Jeff Sutherland in the early 1990's, co-authored the Agile Manifesto in 2001, and founded the Agile Alliance and Scrum Alliance. Ken has been software developer for over 30 years, from bottle washer to cook. He has written three books about Scrum: Agile Software Development with Scrum, Agile Project Management with Scrum, and The Enterprise and Scrum. He lives in Lexington, Massachusetts with his family. His website is www.controlchaos.com.

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.

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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