Archive for August, 2006

Becoming a Certified Scrum Master

Last week me and many southies attended the full-time first Certified ScrumMaster course in South America organized by the Scrum Alliance.
It was an inspiring experience for me not only because of the simple basis of Scrum and the huge impact it can make on Software Industry but because of the energy  that many of us discovered during the course that can lead many projects to success.

I´d like to thank our trainer Tobias Mayer; Alan Cyment who brought Tobias to Buenos Aires, and of course every attendee that made those 2 days a very rich experience.

We made a product called “Scrum in a box”… you can guess what kind of framework we used to build it….Scrum! That kind of product forced us not only to learn Scrum the right way, else to think all the time about artifacts, meetings, roles and flow of Scrum; all of this being part of that

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Here you can see a team gathered at the Backlog wall on the far left, me in the middle and another team (in this case my team: Garcilaso Jordana, Angel Java Lopez, Juan Gabardini, Cludio Schicht and Mariana Gomez in clockwise order) working on the 4rd sprint of Scrum in a Box. ¿Can you spot our tasks posted on the wall behind me?

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Here are all the brand new CSM and Tobias on the top-left corner.

Finally, if you are interested in Scrum, you shouldn´t miss the following: