Traveling too Hawaii was a long trip but, once you there you don’t want to leave. Of course the thought of returning home to the thawing Midwest was not that bad since we are moving into the spring season.  Being in Hawaii and hearing the local view of cold weather being less than 75 degrees brought a smile my face. If only I could see it from their side. As someone pointed out you have to be there a couple of years for your blood to thin and then you will understand.

We ran our second ScrumMaster training event. The class size was small and favored my preferred style of andragogy training (small group guided learning). Typically I start these courses with just enough instruction to strike a dialog driven process of exploration and unfolding . The small sizes are always favored since it enables a small group guided learning approach. Traditional instructional (pedagogy grounded theory) design is for larger groups >20 students who sit in a student/lecturer arrangement. This requires less responsive guidance for the lecturer and encourages an adherence to a scripted course delivery. These styles of training are to be avoided if real mastery of Scrum  / Agile is to be achieved.

Learning Agile / Scrum is not about memorization of explicit knowledge but, rather the application of that a mind set to an in-flight challenging problem. It is a learning process of using the scrum framework to move as a team to understand. Learning Scrum / Agile can be setup as such a challenge and the group present rose to the occasion to create their own learning experience as a team.

This trip was a real exposure to the varied and subtle tastes of Hawaiian culture. No where in the country have I seen “East meets West” be as pronounced as in Hawaii and that makes it all the more beautiful.

Coffee Question:

• Do you like your Kona blended or pure?

A Hui Hou

- Doug