SG2008 Open Space Notes
The Open Space event held at the Spring 2008 Scrum Gathering was a tremendous success. After meeting in one large group, participants posted topics that they hoped to discuss on one wall of the conference room. Each topic was given a discussion time and place as well as a leader. The group then broke into topic groups.
Notes were taken for each topic and are posted here to be shared with open space participants and anyone else who would like to know more about a particular topic. We will continue to add notes as they are submitted to us. (Send notes or corrections to the editor.)
| Topic for Discussion | Leader |
| How to Increase Ownership & Accountability on a Development Team |
Doug Roberts |
| Making the Business Case for Scrum | Chris Sims |
| Architecture: How do you define it? Why do you need it? And how do you implement with Scrum? |
Adam Rogers |
| Issue: Team can only be collocated 50 percent of the time. Suggestions? |
Sandy McDonald |
| Issue: My team doesn't know how to act like a team. |
Mark Summers |
| It's 2010 and we failed implementing Scrum in the world. What did we do wrong? |
Danko |
| Do we always have to have a potentiallly shippable product increment? If not, what do we have? |
Harvey Wheaton |
| Challenges and strategies for using Scrum in contracting situations. |
Rachel Weston |
| Establishing a Professional Coaching Network |
Giora Morein |
| Servant Leadership: Serving Others with Greatness |
Brian Ralph |
| Issue: How do we know the velocity of a Scrum team? What are the best practices? |
Rajeev |
| How do we use business value (in practice)? |
Joe Little |
| Build a better path for PMBOK PMs to come to grips with Scrum and reduce friction between the groups. |
Dave Prior |
| Approaches to strengthen the PO role |
Nick Xidis |
| Creating a sense of ugency on a reluctant team |
Fuseni |
| How do we include issues beyond software development that must be a part of things? |
Russell Earnest |
| Extending the organizational change Battle Mapping Technique |
George Schlitz |
| When bringing Scrum into an organization, what do we do with line management? |
Jeff McKenna |
| What are the different definitions of business value? |
Joe Little |
| Scaling quality with Scrum |
Peter Smith |
| Games for facilitators: Doing NOT Talking |
Tobias Mayer |
| Considerations for introducing Scrum to service teams | David Fox |
| Show and Tell: Simple Tools for Scrum with Google Docs |
Alex Garcia |
| Scrum Patterns: Identifying common solutions to similiar problems |
Matt Roadnight |
| How would we define self-organization and how far can you let it go? | Filip Ballegeer |
| What is the place of the Agile PMO? |
Devon Maries |
| How to know if you are a CrAgilist |
Giora Morein |
| Strategies for dealing with passive agressive line managers that don't buy-in | Joe D |
| Doing product support and new work on the same Scrum team | Arnie Badeur |
| Collaborative Team Spaces |
Peter Hundermark |
| Let's Practice Estimation and Planning |
Chris Sims |
| Team Velocity versus Project Deadline |
Fusaine |
| Time-boxing Research: How to Scrum when you don't know if it's possible | |
| How to do software testing in an Agile/Scrum environment |
Jon Russ |
| Tobias Mayer and Agile/Scrum vs Aaron Sanders and Lean/Kanban. Room for Both? | Tobias Mayer |
| Coaching the practice of the theory. Just do it? | Elizabeth |
| Scrum's input on performance review systems |
Dan Noonen |
| Using ritual ceremonies, gimmicks, and practical jokes in Scrum meeetings |
Brian Ralph |
| Introducing Scrum to a post-production team |
Jean Parker |
| Issue: What are the most useful metrics you use? | Kirk Bryde |
| Scaling Scrum |
Mark Woyna |
| Accountabilism or Accountability? What do you use? | Tom Mellor |
| Scrum & CMMI/ISO |
Doug Shiver |
| The team wants a physical taskboard. The PO wants an e-tool. How can these two tools place nice? | Doug Roberts |
| What is Done? |
Jordan Samuels |
