SCRUM sessions at Tech-Ed

There are two very interesting session in the Dev-Lead track at Tech-Ed next week that provide insights into the SCRUM methodology:

Scrum! Because Reality Will Not Fit Your Plan -

Most projects "crash & burn" in all aspects of deadlines, quality, visibility and contents. Despite all attempts to improve the classic methodology they tend to do the "march of death" over and over again.
This presentation will guide you through the corridors of Scrum, a unique managerial framework which resides under the Agile umbrella. Its fundamentals are made of those ideas that others methodologies dread to confront such as; frequent changes during the project, the customer's vague idea at the early stage regarding the final product being  requested, the developers' inability to give proper estimations and more.
Scrum's innovative design theories have been proven to increase effectiveness and efficiency in project design and implementation. Using case studies and examples from both Israel and abroad, this session will argue the best benefits of Scrum. Focus will be placed on major hardships faced during project life cycle and Scrum's solution.

When Software Development and Project Management Meet -

We all want our development project to run smoothly – on time, on budget, without too many bugs, and with the required feature set.
It does not matter if we are a small startup or a large enterprise - communication, collaboration and unified processes are key factors to the success of our product development and project management.
In this session we will show how to streamline the development process between the various stakeholders, environments and disciplines to ensure project success.
We will also present the story of eyeblaster, a software development company that implemented several technologies to enable a complete end-to-end ALM solution.

In the "When Software Development and Project Management Meet"  session they have a couple of great slides about "The Way to SCRUM and a Step Back" where they provide great insight about what they use from the SCRUM methodology and what modification they did to fit there development and business realities.