SCRUM
Certified SCRUM Master
As of today, I’m officially a Certified SCRUM Master. As I mentioned before, the training with Jeff Sutherland and Serge Beaumont was really great fun, so if you’re interested in SCRUM, book one of the trainings for a good bunch of new knowledge and for a nice experience :-)
Trainings Galore
I took part in two interesting and entertaining trainings during the last two weeks, both highly relevant for my daily work.
The first training I went to was a SCRUM master certification training with Jeff Sutherland and Serge Beaumont (Xebia). It took place in Utrecht on November 13th/14th. Utrecht is quite a nice city, I will go there again next year and look at it in more detail. Next time I travel to the Netherlands, I’ll go by train or helicopter – 90 minutes on the way back for 30 kilometers is too much :-) The SCRUM training itself was quite packed with entertaining stories and hands-on exercises and I learned a lot about team dynamics. As we have been doing SCRUM at work for some weeks now, I’m keen to see how this method of working will develop. After my return home, I immediately started doing SCRUM at home as well – very useful to get things done :-)
This week (November 18-21) we had an in-house Core Spring training with Mike Wiesner, who is a very good trainer as well. The training was very well structured with labs for each topic. SpringSource does not only give a complete set of slides to every participant, but also a printed guide for the labs and a complete Eclipse-based development environment with prepared lab projects and complete solutions. Four days of condensed input gave me quite a bit of brain load, but I think it was well worth the time. I also learned a lot about what I have been using in my projects for almost two years now. I will take the “Certified Spring Professional” exam as soon as possible. The training participation certificate will then be exchanged with the “real” certificate :-)
Thanks to all trainers for their good work!
Random links about agile development
First, there are two documents I had fun reading:
Agile Office Space (a blog entry) and Designing Collaborative Spaces for Productivity (an InfoQ article).
Then, there is The Agile with Scrum User’s Guide: A Compilation of Thoughts and Practices by Joel Adams of DEVON Consulting. I am currently reading his “compilation of over 100 postings to message boards and a few other texts”.
Have fun :)