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The crum SEx change… playing with words and with ideas, playing intellectually and physically, talking, thinking, laughing, moving, telling stories, writing poetry, celebrating failure, finding new questions, interacting, listening, feeling, dialog, conversation, passion, digging down (how low can you go?), exploring really tough questions… and then there was the warmth of old friends, the excitement of new ones – and it all related to a deeper understanding of Scrum. That was my experience of the Scrum Exchange 2006. Some personal highlights from other participants follow…

Personal Highlights

The event exceeded my wildest expectations!

Size and setting and informal flow was FANTASTIC.

The people and sponsors were wonderful and very open.

Having so many people believing in Scrum in the same place, exchanging ideas and experiences.

Meeting people who want to transform organizations.

Edgy, interesting, amorphous sessions.

Interesting insights into others who have been doing Scrum for a while.

Learned a great deal about Scrum in general; specifically, gathered info to promote and support the use of Scrum within my company.

The willingness of all participants to try weird stuff.

Scrum Intro and the self-organization activities (Key Principles of Scrum).

Realizing the connection/common theme behind all the sessions I attended.

Michael Hamman’s session about “requests” and “invitations”.

The general acceptance by everyone.

The Velocity Game.

Scrum Basics (green track).

Ending as a big group with Terry Sand and play and humor.

The arm twisting and entangling exercise (in Tobias’s session) was a great way to dramatically illustrate the power of self-organizing teams.

Teamwork – change – acting outside the box.

Pouring lemonade over a piece of cheesecake to the affirming sound of “ding” from the group: the power of positive feedback. [ref]

Bodywork – cutting paper, role-playing, games, especially Matt Smith’s “finger” solution to Power Games

Kert’s session.

Strangely enough, being able to come here while waiting to see my very ill friend was a gift. Thanks!

Dan’s session. I want his powerpoint slides.

Meeting people who have little experience and more experience – and sharing.

Conversations with people I wanted to meet, like Victor (Szalvay). Also new people, new friends and collaborating.

Rethinking ideas with new perspectives.

Realizing I’m not alone with the frustrations I am feeling trying to implement Agile.

Opportunity to get the input/advice of not only practitioners, but also other attendees – networking.

Kert and Steve’s classes provided me with a number of good ideas on how to help make my teams more cohesive.

Great new relationships.

Everyone was open to conversation, interaction and helping each other.

Great valet service!

The photographs on this post were taken by Alan Cyment (who, by the way, flew in from Buenos Aires for this event). There are more great photographs of the event at here. Enjoy.