Australian Scrum Community

There is now a Melbourne Scrum User Group. Details available at: http://scrum.meetup.com/12/

If you’re in Melbourne please give them your support.

Come and talk things Scrum.

This is an attempt to kick off the Sydney Scrum group.

Where: ThoughtWorks Level 8, 51 Pitt St Sydney (street view)

When: Wednesday 5 November 2008 – from 6pm

What: The Stockholm Syndrome – what happened at the Scrum Gathering in Stockholm

Contact: Lachlan

Serena are running some free agile presentations on the East Coast next week. John Scumniotales is co-creator of Scrum Agile Methodology and was the first ScrumMaster. He will be discussing:

• A pragmatic approach to agile
• Scaling agile up and out, followed by
• Q&A

Dates and locations:

• 14 October 2008 – Brisbane – Mercure Hotel
• 16 October 2008 – Sydney – The Westin Sydney
• 17 October 2008 – Melbourne – Sofitel Melbourne

For more details check out the registration page.

James has taken the initiative and started an Agile/Scrum group in Brisbane. It’s great to see something happening outside of Sydney, so if you’re in or near Brisbane check out http://scrum.meetup.com/11/.

Roman Pilcher recently announced the formation of a London Scrum Users group. Here’s the original message:

As you may have heard, we are starting a Scrum user group in London. The first meeting will take place on 14 Oct 2008, 7 pm in the Old Bank of England pub, London. The details are here: www.scrumalliance.org/events/20-london-scrum-user-group-inaugural-meeting. Do pop by if you are in town!

If you’re in London during October, this maybe something you’d like to attend.