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jmbeas
Dec 19, 2010, 10:21:43 AM12/19/10
to Agile Coaches Gathering Spain
Hi all!
To break the ice I'll present myself. (I'm using English as I'm
assuming Rachel Davis, one of our hosts, would be more
confortable) ;-)
My name is Jose Manuel Beas and I (like to) see me as a change agent
in all the organizations I've been working for in the last 15 years
(or even before when I was at the Uni). I like programming but the
professional careers in Spain seems to be pushing me to positions
where programming is not important but managing and social abilities
are.
A couple of years ago I found some people (most of them are in this
googlegroup now) and together we "refounded" Agile-Spain, the Spanish
agile community, almost dead by that time. I had not so much
experience on Agile, Scrum, XP nor anything under the Agile umbrella,
but I was absolutely convinced that "there were better ways of
developing software". Now, that community is getting bigger and bigger
and is participating in the organization of XP2011. Wow! Who would
imagine that two years ago!
Now, following Xavier Quesada's advice, I looked for and found an
almost dead project and officialy working as a Project Manager I'm
actually acting as an Agile Coach. I'm making lots of mistakes, but
although this is the most stressful experience in my career (harder
because what I really want to do is to program) I'm quite happy
because I'm convinced that, if we are able to revive this project,
just using our (agile) principles and our commitment with our
profession, this will become a landmark in Spain and a story of
success that many people will use to convince their organizations to
give a try to a "better way of developing software".
I'm also very committed (together with Xavier Gost and other
colleagues) with iniciatives like agilismo.es, where we are trying to
show that using Scrum or any other agile methodology is NOT enough. We
ALSO need to improve our technical skills (I'm speaking now as a
programmer, that's what I want to be). Remember? "Working software
over comprehensive documentation". :-)
Well, enough for breaking the ice. :-)
Best regards and hope we can met next Feb, 4th in Madrid and share (in
Spanish, English or whatever language) our experiences (successful
ones or mistakes -I have lots of these latter ones to share with
you-).
JMB
To break the ice I'll present myself. (I'm using English as I'm
assuming Rachel Davis, one of our hosts, would be more
confortable) ;-)
My name is Jose Manuel Beas and I (like to) see me as a change agent
in all the organizations I've been working for in the last 15 years
(or even before when I was at the Uni). I like programming but the
professional careers in Spain seems to be pushing me to positions
where programming is not important but managing and social abilities
are.
A couple of years ago I found some people (most of them are in this
googlegroup now) and together we "refounded" Agile-Spain, the Spanish
agile community, almost dead by that time. I had not so much
experience on Agile, Scrum, XP nor anything under the Agile umbrella,
but I was absolutely convinced that "there were better ways of
developing software". Now, that community is getting bigger and bigger
and is participating in the organization of XP2011. Wow! Who would
imagine that two years ago!
Now, following Xavier Quesada's advice, I looked for and found an
almost dead project and officialy working as a Project Manager I'm
actually acting as an Agile Coach. I'm making lots of mistakes, but
although this is the most stressful experience in my career (harder
because what I really want to do is to program) I'm quite happy
because I'm convinced that, if we are able to revive this project,
just using our (agile) principles and our commitment with our
profession, this will become a landmark in Spain and a story of
success that many people will use to convince their organizations to
give a try to a "better way of developing software".
I'm also very committed (together with Xavier Gost and other
colleagues) with iniciatives like agilismo.es, where we are trying to
show that using Scrum or any other agile methodology is NOT enough. We
ALSO need to improve our technical skills (I'm speaking now as a
programmer, that's what I want to be). Remember? "Working software
over comprehensive documentation". :-)
Well, enough for breaking the ice. :-)
Best regards and hope we can met next Feb, 4th in Madrid and share (in
Spanish, English or whatever language) our experiences (successful
ones or mistakes -I have lots of these latter ones to share with
you-).
JMB
Rachel Davies
Dec 19, 2010, 12:40:45 PM12/19/10
to agile-coaches-...@googlegroups.com
Hi everyone,
Thanks Jose for using English in your email. I really don't mind if people on this list prefer to use Spanish.
Looking forward to meeting you all in February!
Best regards,
Rachel Davies
author of "Agile Coaching" book
web: www.agilexp.com
tel: +44 7951 168 408
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