Australian Scrum Community

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.

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.

I am sharing some Scrum experiences that I have had in both Australia and Europe through a series of anti-patterns that I am posting on my Software With Style blog. These anti-patterns are:

• Mistake #1: Premature Process Optimisation
• Mistake #2: Exceeding the Transition Speed Limit
• Mistake #3: Misaligned Sashimi Slicing
• Mistake #4: Accumulation of Undone Work
• Mistake #5: Individual Heroics

These anti-patterns cover a broad cross-section of project concerns including method customisation, transition strategy, work breakdown, technical and quality debt as well as teamwork issues. Each anti-pattern is presented in a consistent structure comprising background material, a short experience report, smells that may represent a symptom of the problem, factors that may cause the problem to arise, potential consequences if the problem is allowed to fester and guidance as to what can be done to avoid or resolve the problem.

I hope that these help readers to avoid falling into these traps and to deal with them effectively if and when they arise.

I’m keen to to hear your thoughts on these. If you have had a similar experience or have a different perspective on this, please post a comment on my blog.

I have had some interest in having a Certified ScrumMaster course sooner than the ones scheduled for the end of February. To this end I have posted a course in Sydney for February 12th-13th.

If you are interested in doing Scrum training sooner rather than later, please get in touch (no registration necessary for the contact form).

We now have 9 more Certified ScrumMasters in Brisbane after I did an in-house course with a well known US-based software company there shortly before Christmas. I really enjoyed the course – especially the very creative group presentations that were prepared using Scrum as part of the certification exercise. The participants also had some positive discussions that showed that they had internalised a number of tenets of Scrum and were ready to put them into action. These included identifying a single Product Owner, the importance of empowering the team and allowing people to volunteer for work rather than assigning tasks to them.

An internal Scrum training course can be a great way to prepare for or kick-start a transition to Scrum. If you think that your company might benefit from such training, please get in touch .