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Extended Mind And the Scrum Pathway

admin — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 17:00:34 +0000

This was not your typical scrummaster training course. We raised the bar by bringing the Scrum Framework home in applied context to the classroom and helping each other understand it better through simulations that encouraged participation and responses from each of us. It focused on the truely adaptive nature of great teams and how the class over the course of 2 days stared to jel and move faster. Each person became a member of a close knit team and helped each other extend our ability to think about more complex and challenging issues of Scrum. This would be the same pattern of thought for teams building product.

Simple Rules For Emerging Collaborative Behavior Focused On Complex Demanding Business Drivers

No heads work alone
Let the product lead
One bite at a time
Make it visible
Avoid and eliminate confusion
Start with the end in mind

What an awesome course. Each attendee recieved a free identity boost with the course and we will work to build a community to grow from. The community will be focused on Collaborative Skills for and will help each open more doors by improving our connectedness through applied effort the driven by our passion. Coaching others is a reward and a skill we all need to polish.

We will be running this course again in San Mateo and creating another extended mind.

Brillant and Informative

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and see if you agree!!

Scrum Workshop for Busy Teams – Effective Agile Development

rod.claar — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 22:49:24 +0000

The Scrum Workshop for Busy Teams Workshop is a jumpstart for teams or individuals in Scrum and Agile software development.

The main exercise is a team project where the teams work together to create at game to teach Scrum. This team developed a board game similar to “Candy Land” called Scrumopoly.

This course was the equivlent of a 2-day coruse delivered in four evenings. The goal was to help teams wanting to learn about scrum without impacting their schedule. Two guys actually flew up from California to Seattle to take this course. They were able to attend meetings by phone in the day and do the workshop in the evenings.

All of the students in this course had a strong background in the waterfall process on large teams. We had great discussions about how to move an orginization to be more agile. The student’s concsnsus was that the role of Product Owner is critical. I agree 100%. Without a strong and effective Product Owner to create the vision and separate the required from the incidental, teams will build the wrong thing or bild the most important thing too late.

See evals and comments from students.

Evaluations from Scrum Training Workshop In Twin Cities

admin — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 14:56:43 +0000

certified-scrum-product-owner-chicagoCertified ScrumMaster workshop in Minneapolis held in conjuction with Normandale College and 3Back – Scrum Alliance member was another major success. We have a total o 14 participants from numerous companies and great success is delivery and setup.

The subject matter for this course became one of advanced scurm tuning issues relatetd to a Scrum Implemenation. The participantes were focused on culutural issues surrounding the implementation. Although, technical issues came up the bulk of the energy centered on how to better stimulate a well formed team doing Scrum and how to really involve senior leadership.

Please read the hand written evaluations for insights about this course and judge for your self.

- Doug
“Applied Scrum where rubber meets the road.