Australian Scrum Community

With Joseph Pelrine – Certified Scrum Trainer and Practitioner
Thursday February 8, 2007
Swiss-Grand Resort & Spa, Bondi Beach, Sydney

Course description from Joseph Pelrine:

The ScrumMaster Certification course was a very intensive training experience. Not only did it pack a great deal of information into just 2 days, much of the information also requires more than 2 days to internalise and understand. You may have left the course without the chance to immediately put into practice what you had just learned, thus losing context and forgetting the underlying reasons for Scrum.

This compact, 1-day course is aimed at Certified ScrumMasters who wish to refresh their knowledge about Scrum, understand the deeper reasons underlying Scrum’s effectiveness, and get answers to questions which have come up in the context of their actually applying Scrum. It will provide a review of Scrum concepts and an update on a number of topics, as well as providing a platform for attendees to discuss their experiences and problems implementing Scrum within organisations. Topics to be addressed include:

• Review of Scrum concepts
• Facilitating emergent team behaviour
• Non-conventional techniques for problem solving
• Scaling Scrum
• Reporting and tracking
• Social Networking

Other topics will be addressed according to the needs of the course participants.

This course is not a substitute for the ScrumMaster certification course, and is only open to Certified ScrumMasters.

To find out more about the course, contact Joseph directly via scrum at metaprog dot com. Act quickly!

About Joseph Pelrine

Joseph Pelrine is a pioneer of Agile practices, having worked as Kent Beck’s assistant while he was formulating Extreme Programming. Joseph went on to become Europe’s first Certified Scrum Trainer and Practitioner, successfully introducing Scrum into many large organisations, including SAP, Nokia, the BBC, Business Objects and Océ.

A member of the International Association of Facilitators, Joseph concentrates not only on the technical side of software development, but also on the “people side”, working towards enabling customers, managers and developers to communicate more easily and clearly with each other.

Joseph is a managing partner of CATeams, a company applying cutting-edge techniques from cognitive psychology and social complexity science towards building and optimizing agile teams. His interests include organisational complexity and its application to Agile processes.

English is Joseph’s first language but Smalltalk is his favourite! In-between consulting gigs, Joseph performs on guitar and moonlights around Europe as a Cordon Bleu chef! See his blog for some great recipes.