
What we’re about
We are an endorsed Scrum Alliance User Group primarily based and operating in London.
We are a user group of Scrum advocates who wish to promote the Agile and Scrum values within the community and beyond. Leveraging the knowledge of industry experts, our objective is to support people where we can. But only when they are ready to be Agile and potentially use Scrum.
We do what we say by living the Scrum Values:
Focus:
We focus on the presentation(s) per event (but it can be presented by multiple people). This allows the presenter(s) and audience to gain the maximum value from the event, rather than being a show case for something else.
Courage:
We organise as a team and welcome people to contribute so, they too can gain experience of volunteering for the community. We believe there is no monopoly on experience.
Openness:
We are a free, open group that tries to resolve any concerns and is as transparent as we possibly can be.
Commitment:
We are committed to the success of Agile and Scrum by supporting the community with this user group.
Respect:
We respect everyone inside the group and also outside the group. We have no desire to compete, but rather to share knowledge even if it could be seen as being at the expense of our group. We do not judge and we wish all to be respected even if others may deem they are not worthy of that respect.
For that, we will always support diversity in our community and we will start doing that by promoting female speakers for the first 12 months to show who they are and what they have to offer!
Our users are committed to these values because we believe that an Agile Mindset can enhance people’s lives, often resulting in easing communication, reducing stress and enhancing happiness. It is well known that happy people are more productive people, translating into real Value.
We want everyone to be able to experience joy from the group.
Thank you.
Attendees: This Scrum User Group is entirely free!
We aim to keep it that way. All that is required is that your turn up, enjoy the event and be respectful to other attendees.
E-Mail: scrumevent@gmail.com
You can use the above email to register any SEU’s with the Scrum Alliance CSP application form.
Upcoming events (1)
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Alexander Thurow presents - Thoughts on (Modern?) Software Development
Abstract:
“If someone is taking a journey, he (or she) can tell a story. Therefore I would take my staff and hat and would choose to travel.” (Matthias Claudius, 1740-1815)The present talk was designed with exactly this in mind, 1000-times heard (and slightly updated), German proverb.
Initially created for a student audience ("From education to employment: A requirements-set for modern software developers“), it tries to outline what the presenter identified as relevant for a productive survival in the software development business (aka "the wild“).
Have you ever been wondering why we, as a whole community of experts, so often struggle to tame the beast called software development?
The "Thoughts on (Modern?) Software Development" talk tries to present some answers to the question why our ongoing fight is a tough one.
Spoiler: Most of the time it is not about what your stakeholders, or you as someone who is directly involved, think it is…
About Alexander Thurow:
During the last twenty years Alexander Thurow (https://onmoderndev.de/en) worked at different German software providers. Currently he is a freelance software developer, consultant and speaker.
- Born in Hamburg in 1975, currently located at Lake Constance
- Dipl.-Wirtsch.-Inform. (FH), 2005 at the Leuphana Lüneburg and the University of Sydney
- Different positions: Software developer, consultant, technical trainer, lecturer and speaker
- Main areas of interest: Clean Code, Refactoring, Technical Debt, knowledge transfer and mentoring, technological disruption, books ("in- and outside of the box“, see: https://onmoderndev.de/en/reading), current affairsAgenda (timezone in BST):
18:45 - 19.00 - Event Welcoming & Networking
19:00 - 20:20 - Talk
20:20 - 20:30 - Event Questions & NetworkingSEUa:
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