Tirándole los tejos a Mike Cohn

[José Manuel Beas]

Hola, aprovechando que le pedí permiso para traducir un artículo suyo, le he tirado los tejos a Mike Cohn por si quería pasarse por España durante la Conferencia Agile Spain. Estaría bien que pusiéramos fechas ya porque se nos van a escapar vivos. :-)

Un saludo,
JMB

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From: José Manuel Beas <jose....@gmail.com>
Date: 2009/12/18
Subject: Re: Permission to translate an article
To: Mike Cohn <mi...@mountaingoatsoftware.com>


Yes, Telefonica I+D (I+D = Research and Development) is a company within the Telefonica Group. They have a plan for adopting agile methods and is the biggest company in Spain I have heard using Scrum.

Maybe we could come to an arrangement with you in order to make your wish true. We haven't finished our planification of the Conference, but as soon as I have the dates I can drop you a line and maybe you can make us a visit, present your latest book and taste our wines and food. :-)

Thanks a lot and wish a happy 2010,
JMB

2009/12/18 Mike Cohn <mi...@mountaingoatsoftware.com>

Telefonica is one company I've heard from in Madrid with an interest in Scrum. There were a couple of others but I don't recall company names. 

Unfortunately, I don't have any plans to get to Spain right now. I'd love to as I've wanted to visit your country since I was 17. I just haven't made it yet. 

Congratulations on a successful Agile Open and good luck with the Conference his spring.

Regards,

Mike

On Dec 18, 2009, at 5:19 AM, José Manuel Beas wrote:

Thank you so much!

As soon the translation is ready, I'll send you the link.

Regarding the increasing of popularity of Scrum in Spain, yes, indeed, recently (in October) we made the first Agile Open in Spain and we easily found more than 150 people who came and we are planning the first Agile Spain Conference for may-june (we don't have an exact date yet).

BTW, is there any people getting in contact with you regarding Scrum. We represent (or try to represent) the agile community in Spain and we are very interested in getting in contact with everyone who wants to do agile seriously.

Finally, do you have any plans to visit Spain? If so, just drop a line (or a twit). :-)


Best Regards and Merry Christmas
Jose Manuel Beas

http://agilismo.es
http://jmbeas.iExpertos.com <-- ¡Me he mudado!
http://twitter.com/jmbeas

2009/12/18 Mike Cohn <mi...@mountaingoatsoftware.com>

Hi Jose--

Yes, translating this would be fine. In mentioning me as the author please include a link back to http://www.mountaingoatsoftware.com by doing something like making my name a link to that. Thank you.

And best wishes with the success of Agile Spain. From what I can tell, Scrum is starting to get much more popular there, which is wonderful.

Regards,

Mike

Author:

  Succeeding with Agile (*new book*)

  Agile Estimating and Planning

  User Stories Applied

www.mountaingoatsoftware.com

On Dec 18, 2009, at 4:37 AM, José Manuel Beas wrote:

Dear Mr Cohn,

I am a member of Agile Spain, the non-profit organization representing the spanish agile community. And I am writing to ask for your permission to translate your recent blog "Four Types of Resistors When Adopting Agile". We have also translated another blog post of Mr Robert C. Martin "What's all this nonsense about Katas?" and we would be very proud if you give us permission to translate your article so we can publish it in our portal www.agile-spain.com. Of course, we would mention your authorship.

Waiting to hear from you very soon,
Jose Manuel Beas
Chairman of Agile Spain

http://www.agile-spain.com
http://jmbeas.iExpertos.com

Twitter: @jmbeas

[José Manuel Beas]

A ver, a ver, que ni le he dicho que se venga ni nada. Simplemente lo he tanteado. Igual que hice hace poco con Marick y antes con otros. Toda "estrella del rock" que se ponga "a tiro" es susceptible de ser tanteada y conocer cuál es su disposición a venir. Ni le he hecho una propuesta formal ni nada. Lo que sí he dicho es que si nos movemos y formalizamos el formato, las fechas, el presupuesto, etc, entonces se podrá avanzar en serio con esta gente. Vamos, que hay posibilidades reales de que vengan.

Un saludo,

Jose Manuel Beas

http://agilismo.es
http://jmbeas.iExpertos.com <-- ¡Me he mudado!
http://twitter.com/jmbeas

2009/12/20 Ángel Medinilla <angel.m...@gmail.com>

Este hombre es uno de mis  heroes Ágiles de todos los tiempos, empero: ¿podríamos por favor consensuar a quién vamos a tirar los tejos en vez de andar lanzando invitaciones a diestro y siniestro por iniciativa personal?

Si ahora voy yo y le tiro los tejos a Kniberg, con quien tengo contacto a raiz de la traduccion del Trenches, y nos juntamos con que Cohn, Kniberg, Uncle Bob y tres mas dicen que sí que vienen, y no hay dinero para traerlos a todos... ¿A quién le decimos que no y quién se lo dice?

JM, agradezco tu empuje, pero liderar no significa "ya lo hago yo"... Lo que debes hacer, en mi opinión, es conseguir que todos participemos y nos pongamos de acuerdo. La hoja excel me ha parecido un muy buen principio.

Un saludo,
 
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Ángel Medinilla
angel.m...@presionblogosferica.net
www.presionblogosferica.com