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In case you missed it, Tobias Mayer recently posted a message on ScrumDevelopment about a presentation from the recent Scrum Gathering called “The Road from Project Manager to Agile Coach”, by Lyssa Adkins. It’s an excellent presentation and Lyssa has taken the time to put it on YouTube. I’d encourage you to watch it.

Here’s Tobias’ original message and here are links to the YouTube videos: Part 1 and Part 2

Great news for people in Perth looking for Certified ScrumMaster training. You can now get a $200 discount on the course scheduled for 29-30 May 2008. All you have to do is register with the code CSMMay08.

Enter “CSMMay08” (without the quotes) in the text box labeled “CSM $200 off discount Coupon”. This discount will reduce the cost of the course to a very reasonably $1,400 (AUD).

Note: This course was originally scheduled for 26-27 May 2008.

In mid-March, a Scrum Trainers’ Gathering was held in Boston. About 25 Certified Scrum Trainers (CSTs) from all over the world gathered for a great two-day event, discussing training exercises, different approaches to training, and other related issues.

There were a number of sessions that I found to be of particular interest. Pete Behrens had an excellent presentation call Enterprise Agile Organization patterns which discussed the implications of Conway’s Law on software architecture.

Several interesting team exercises and games were also presented. Boris presented his “Ball Point Game”, Jens lead us through his “Specification Exercise”, and Lowell introduced us to “Affinity Estimating”. I’ve written up each of these here , here and here

An agile gathering is planned for Sydney on Thursday night with Alistair Cockburn. He’s in town for one night only.

Here is the current plan:

Note: Alistair will be arriving about 8:30pm.

Please email me* if you are planning to attend (please let me know if you’re interested in dinner as well) and I’ll keep you up to date and provide contact details.

Another useful resource, from Pete Deemer and Gabrielle Benefield.

The Scrum Primer is an in-depth introduction to the theory and practice of Scrum, and includes data on results from a large-scale corporate adoption of Scrum.