Australian Scrum Community

Europe’s most experienced Scrum Trainer and Extreme Programmer – Joseph Pelrine – is returning to Sydney in February 2007 to conduct two courses for both new and experienced ScrumMasters. These are:

1. ScrumMaster Certification Course – 6th-7th February
2. ScrumMaster Refresher Course – 8th February

The ScrumMaster Refresher course is a rare opportunity for Certified ScrumMasters to brush-up, improve and extend their working knowledge of Scrum and related techniques.

Some thing you should know about Joseph:

• He worked as Kent Beck’s assistant whilst he was inventing Extreme Programming.
• He is Europe’s first Scrum Trainer and Practitioner.
• He has recently assisted the likes of SAP, Nokia, the BBC, Business Objects and Océ to successfully adopt Scrum.
• In addition to being a technical ace, he has worked extensively on the “People Side” of software development.
• Joseph is a partner of CATeams, a company applying cutting-edge techniques from cognitive psychology and social complexity science towards building and optimizing agile teams.
• His current interests include organisational complexity and its application to Agile processes.
• He is a member of the International Association of Facilitators.
• English(/American) is his first language.
• He moonlights around Europe as a Cordon Bleu chef! You can pick up some great recipes from his blog.
• His favourite programming language is Smalltalk.
• He is an all-round nice guy and when not on the road, he loves to spend his time in the beautiful Swiss Alps.

For more information on the ScrumMaster Certification course see the event details at ScrumAlliance.org for more information.

To register for either course, contact Joseph directly via scrumSPAMFILTER@metaprog.com