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The Scrum Exchange (SX) in Palo Alto, California is just three weeks away, so I thought it was time to start blogging about it.  In this post I’ll give a brief summary of my experience in organizing this event; later I’ll add posts about the event itself, and I hope other attendees will also contribute [...]

Little to report.  Slept most of Thursday, followed by a trip to Buenos Aires Opera House to see a Wagner concert (okay, not exactly Latin American culture, but my host already had the tickets).  We wondered the theatre district and ate pizza that night.  Second best Pizza I’ve ever eaten (best was in London – [...]

Scrum In A Box

So… they say that Scrum is not an “off the shelf” methodology.
Well, wouldn’t it be nice if it was?
Time to create Scrum In A Box – the ultimate off-the-shelf methodology for the smart, bargain-hunting Software Process Shopper.
With this amazing new product all need for CSM training will be eliminated. 
Get the Box, and [...]

The Falklands War, 1982, Diego Maradona and the Hand of God, 1986, Andreas my next-door-neighbor in London, 1993-99,  The ear-torturing Evita, 1978, German refugees, polo, the tango, red wine, high quality beef…  Yep, that’s about it, the extent of my knowledge of Argentina prior to this visit.  I have not learned a great deal more [...]

Greetings from Buenos Aires, Argentina.  I am here to teach a two-day public CSM course.  To the best of my knowledge, this will be the first public CSM course to be taught in South America: an exciting, and scary prospect.  I speak no Spanish and my lame attempts to use BabelFish to translate some of [...]

Please read:
What is Scrum? by the Scrum Alliance
The Essence of Scrum by Tobias Mayer.

Last week I had the privilege of working with an organization in the UK who take Scrum seriously, and understand that it is more than a quick fix. The director/VP level management realise that it will take time for Scrum to show benefit and more importantly they understand the need to trust their development [...]