To keep the mood of upcoming New Year this Thursday M&C practice leaders will meet to have fun!!
This time we will not speak up and show presentation slides. After working day we’ll stay to build the City out of Lego blocks like real kids.
August, 4 in Dnepropetrovsk office of Ciklum its 2 Technical Consultants shared their collection of good practices of Scrum Retrospective.
On the 2nd of June the 3rd Gathering of Dnepr PM Community was successfully held in Dnepr city.
23 persons from Ciklum and other IT companies of DP city had a very energetic meet-up focused on Product Owner Role in software development process.
Facilitator of this session, a Certified Product Owner and Scrum Master Vladimir Vorobyov (EDDA MEDIA) shared his success story of mastering a Product Owner role in his project and further coaching onshore manager to perform this role efficiently.
Firstly we all got on the same page by a brief fresh-up in Scrum process and its key stages, so some of the participants could structure their existent knowledge of Scrum and others could obtain a new vision of Scrum principles.
Then we got to the core topic of our gathering – a Product Owner Role in Scrum Process. A Product Owner was concluded to be arguably one of the most demanding roles in Scrum. Product Owner is responsible for the success of the project and is expected to lead the development effort by conveying the vision to the team. He is determined to help the team produce maximum business value.
After theoretical warming-up we all split up into 5 teams and actually started to play business game – Product Owner Game. Its focus was to try a Product owner role, feel and see the true cost of “cute” features production, understand the business value of technical decisions we usually make in software development process.
The teams played 5 sprints that step by step revealed the following core factors of successful project delivery:
- Optimal backlog prioritization
- Precise planning and estimation
- Dependencies resolving
- Maximizing the overall business value of delivered features
After each iteration, the audience actively shared their impressions and conclusions, made a concise retrospective to analyze their achievements and fails to make the next sprints more and more efficient.
As a result the teams got aware of business wise software development process, learned how to gain income of every release and had true fun and drive of team spirit and synergy.
At the end of the day a team of young business ladies 
won the 1st prize (The gentelemen from their team left before their fancy victory!!!).
They made a really impressive profit of $304.500!!!!!
During the game all players definitely got an unbelievable drive. Hence, one idea arose this evening – to gather somewhere on nature this summer and launch a real 1 day contest by one more challenging business game (XP+PO game in one) to keep the fire on and on and on.
Dear PO Game participants, please fill in the feedback form for our next gatherings are even better.
If your need E-version of PO game materials, please skype/email me and it will be sent upon request within a couple of days.
Моя давнишняя мечта посетить старинный город Львов наконец сбылась. Проехав около 700 километров, вот я наконец здесь – брожу мрачно загадочными улочками этого полного истории города, в котором гармонично соседствуют множество ответвлений католической веры, различные кухни мира и таинственность веков в лоне современной цивилизации.
Мое воображение покорили равнозначные по своему предназначению смотровые площадки городской Ратуши и «Высокого замка». Панорама старого и нового города захватывает дух. C одной стороны виднеются купола и колокольни красивейших святынь города, в то время как с другой словно на глазах «вырастают» небоскребы новых жил массивов. Стремительный весенний ветер навевает мелодию любви двух парящих сердец, перед которыми словно на ладони простирается огромный красочный мир.
Узкие улочки Львова, вымощенные брусчаткой служат артериями города, переносящими группки туристов от одной своей достопримечательности к другой. В один день эти сосуды «занесли» нас с Музей Аптеки. Кроме основного помещения с современными лекарствами, это здание скрывает в себе множество комнат с фармацевтическими принадлежностями прошлого и позапрошлого века, а также немного устрашающие подземелья, экспонирующие всевозможные пузырьки и бутылочки медицинского предназначения.
Сегодня я продолжу свое путешествие, однако, уже за пределами города. По планам посещение Олесского и нескольких других замков, обещающих поразить воображение волшебной «пылью» времени и истории.
1 апреля 2011 года в День Смеха и Веселья, IT менеджеры Днепропетровска собрались вместе на Вторую Встречу нашего PM Сообщества. Приподнятое настроение послужило залогом живой дискуссии, активного обмена опытом и идеями, эффективным общением менеджеров разных компаний друг с другом. Read the rest of this entry »
When I was in Egypt 2 yrs ago it was totally different travelling style comparing to December 2010 trip I’ve just come back.
Last time it was going sightseeing, feeling impressed, or even a little bit depressed by Cairo and its Pyramids but still inspired by Egyptian Museum and awesome beauty of the underwater like with its colorful fishes and corals. The impressions were fantastic like the first step of a little baby on the solid surface of the earth with its green fresh grass or hot sand of the Arabian Desert.
But now I touched the heart of Egypt from inside. I didn’t visit many places of interests, didn’t take the picture of the Sphinx and was too afraid of angry sharks to snorkle and dive all day long. However, I did like that trip so much that it cannot be compared to any other vacations I’ve ever gone in my life.
Last Friday, as it was announced before, a new born DP Agile club gathered 29 members for the first session in a cozy atmosphere of Beerhouse V.I.P room
DP city tends to be a Center of Agile traditions and Scrum approach. The topic gains more and more popularity and 
gathers Agile thinkers and followers together again.
This time the informal meeting will take place in BeerHouse cozy restaurant with 20+ attendants interested in Flexible development and Agile driven by their nature The start time is 7 p.m.
За последние пару-тройку лет вышло несметное количество книг и фильмов о вампирах, в образе которых воспеты лучшие человеческие качества. Их даже стали называть по-особенному – вампиры-вегетарианцы В «Сумерках» это Эдвард, который умеет искренне любить и жить без капли человеческой крови. В «Дневниках вампиров» это добрый Стефан, который вообще готов был умереть, лишь бы не причинить вред людям. Read the rest of this entry »
