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Scrum WithStyle is delighted to welcome Joseph Pelrine to Australia from Switzerland for limited series of certification courses and advanced workshops.

Joseph Pelrine is an agile pioneer, one of Europe’s leading XP experts, and Europe’s first Certified Scrum Practitioner and Trainer. An accredited Cynefin practitioner and member of the International Association of Facilitators, he concentrates not only on the technical side of software development, but also on the “people” side, working at enabling customers, managers and developers to communicate more easily and clearly with each other.

Joseph spends the majority of his time working hands-on with agile teams on large-scale Scrum and XP implementations at world-class organisations such as Nokia, eBay, SAP, the BBC and others. In addition to extensive experience with product development, embedded systems and scaling Agile implementations, Joseph’s work focuses on the field of social complexity science and its application to Agile processes. He is currently authoring a book on leading self-organising agile teams using methods based on social complexity science and behavioural psychology.

Enrolments are now open on the following strictly limited series of courses. Click through for details and registration.

For further Scrum training and coaching opportunities, see Scrum WithStyle.com.

Agile Sydney are very pleased to offer an informal “pub” evening with Scott Ambler, discussing requirements capture in an agile world, particulary “at scale”.

Agile Requirements at Scale: Context Counts

Scott will kick off by sharing his views on how modelling can help put user stories into context with both technical and business solutions. He’ll explain why that context is so important in an agile project and provide guidance on modelling and artefacts, including “how much is enough”.

You will leave having gained useful and practical insights, plus potentially a few beers if we can arrange a sponsor in time!

For those who don’t realise Scott Ambler is one of those household names in the agile community (or just want to be impressed with how much agile stuff he’s done)….

• Scott’s Bio
• Stuff he’s written

Learn more here:
http://www.meetup.com/Agile-Sydney/calendar/13968620/

Well, the end of the year is coming very soon now. There’s only one more opportunity to gain certification as a Certified ScrumMaster on a public course in Australia this year. The details are as follows.

Act now to avoid disappointment. Registration close this week.

The Agile Australia 2009 conference has taken shape since I last checked. The program looks great, and if you have look at the speaker list you will spot some familiar names. Good to see, guys.

Due to a prior commitment I won’t be able to attend, which is very disappointing. I hope you all enjoy the gig, and that somebody is collecting presentations/notes.

The Agile Australia 2009 conference is on in Sydney on 15-16 October 2009. The website says:

Agile Australia 2009 will be an exciting conference focussing on how enterprises can embrace an agile approach.

Attend Agile Australia 2009 to discuss issues around agile in the enterprise – governance, culture, people, organisation and process. Understand the latest thinking through the exchange of ideas, strategies and first hand experiences.

Grab the opportunity to share and learn with peers and experts as we explore agile development in the enterprise.

Other than that, there’s not a lot of detail on what it’s all about. Has anyone got any more details they can share?