Certified ScrumMaster Training
“Intensive and enjoyable at the same time”
“SCRUM is about people”
“Very intuitive and really gives you the sense that this is the natural way to go”
The latter comments belong to people who participated in our first Certified Scrum Master training in Costa Rica during the last week of August. We had the privilege of having Stacia Broderick and Tobias Mayer as the trainers. We really had a good time meditating and (most important) practicing all the agile principles behind Scrum.
What is Scrum?
I would say that Scrum is the natural way of thinking applied to project management of software development process. It enforces, in many ways, “working on your edge” in order to “achieve reliable innovation” as stated in the wonderful book Artful Making, of Rob Austin and Lee Devin. Similarly, Alistair Cockburn says in the book Agile Software Development: The Cooperative Game that “Scrum tells people to think for themselves”.
By my own experience, Scrum is the right process for software development based in Cooperation, Communication, Courage and Accountability. That list would augmented by Stacia Broderick (remembering what she emphasized in the training) with the following values: Commitment, Focus, Openness, Respect, Courage and Trust. On the other hand, Tobias Mayer was clear in this important point: “Scrum is a Collaborative Space involving developers and customers in ongoing dialog.”
The trainings
A nice feature of Scrum, is that you are able to apply it also in things not related to software. Successful Project Management in general requires commitment and the agile factor: Inspect and Adapt boosted by iterative cycles. In August, two private/closed Scrum trainings were held, the first one was directed to top executives of different software companies and the second one was directed to software developers and project managers.
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