…as a Certified ScrumMaster.
I have just completed a two-day SCM training course, let by Mr. Rowan B. Bunning.
I found the course enjoyable and well-presented.
For posterity, here is a piccy, courtesy of Rowan.
I find the primary idea underlying Scrum appealing: Scrum comes from the realisation that up-front, in-toto planning simply doesn’t work and that structuring a project as a series of time-boxed iterations may well be a more successful approach. There is more than this of course (the ideas behind the Agile Manifesto, self-organising teams, highly visible/quantified progress indicators, shared responsibility for success and/or failure, etc.) but that is the fundamental driver.
I still can’t shake the feeling, however, that it’s going to be a rare organisation that is brave enough to allow some of Scrum’s features to be applied without change: how many enterprises (the natural home of the PHB) are there out there really capable of daring “safe-fail rather than fail-safe”?
Still, it’s another string to my bow and may prove useful. Every good developer should aim to be a useful “cross functional team member”, after all!
