Scrum training

[Miika Makinen]

Hi guys,
would anybody on this list be interested in becoming Certified Scrum Master? We might have an opportunity to organize 2-day training here in Phnom Penh, with a great coach.

Miika

[Khou Suylong]

Hi miika,

I'm very glade if so. i will be in.

2008/7/16 Miika Makinen <mmi...@gmail.com>:

Hi guys,
would anybody on this list be interested in becoming Certified Scrum Master? We might have an opportunity to organize 2-day training here in Phnom Penh, with a great coach.

Miika

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Khou Suylong

[Vorleak Chy]

Hi Miika,

It is really interesting for me and I would like to have one if possible.

Cheers,
Vorleak

[Chea sereyvath]

Hi Miika,

It sounds so interesting. I really want to know if there's the schedule.
Please keep me on update.

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CHEA Sereyvath
Project Manager / Software Architecture
Moor Software Development Co, Ltd.
Tel. +855 12 99 25 87
http://www.moorwebsoftware.com/

[chhun samnang]

Hi Miika,

It is really a good chance to bring new software methodology to software development companies in Cambodia. I will try to be there too.

Cheers,
Samnang

[d.stankowski]

I would be interested, too. Please keep me in the loop! Dominik

[pang yem]

Hi Miika,

It is really such a great opportunity to have this kind of studying.

Thanks,
Pong

[Piseth]

Hi Miika,

It's sound very interested, who is a great coach?

Regards,
Piseth

[c.sokun]

Why do you need to scrum? if all your process work?
What is a Scrum Master do after all? it seem to me like you trying to
coach a project, isn't it?

[Chris Brown]

If all your processes work for your software team already then that's
great, I wouldn't change anything. But for most software development
teams things aren't perfect, if you answer yes to any of these
questions then you should seriously consider taking a look at scrum or
another agile design practice:

- Do you spend a lot of time on up front design?
- When the client changes their mind about what they want half way
through the project, do you loose a lot of time?
- Is most of your contact with the customer or 'product owner' at the
beginning and end of a project?
- Do you sometimes have to work 14 hour days and 7 day weeks at the
end of a project to meet the deadline?
- Do you often miss the delivery date?
- Do you ever not enjoy your job because of pressure?

I've yet to see or be involved with a software development team that
has not adopted agile practices who could answer no to all of those
questions.

[c.sokun]

great points chris i'm an agile fan let die the waterfall.
How big is the project/team size minimum to think about scrum?
Who are the main actors in the process?

[ROS, Pich Hemy]

Dear all,

 

I am new member to the group here. However, i am very interested in this training. Please let me know the next step.

 

Best,

 

Hemy

[Miika]

Welcome to the group Hemy,
I'll keep this thread up-to-date if I have news.

In the meanwhile, question to everybody: How much would you be willing
to pay for such training? The two-day courses (two full days!) run
elsewhere in the world usually go around $1000-$2000. I know this is
quite steep... how would you react to for example $500? Remember that
this is something that should be paid by your employer, not you ;)

Cheers,
Miika

On Jul 31, 8:50 am, "ROS, Pich Hemy" <pichh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I am new member to the group here. However, i am very interested in this
> training. Please let me know the next step.
>
> Best,
>
> Hemy
>

[Chris Brown]

Sorry for the slow reply Sokun, for some reason the group digest never
made it to my gmail account.

In scrum the main players are:

The Product Owner - This is the customer or the manager of the
project, they decide what features will be in the system and the
priority of those features
The Team - The developers that will build the features in the product
owners backlog
The Scrum Master - (could be one of the development team) job is
remove all obstacles that may stop the team from working efficiently
and to make sure Scrum is followed (they are not a manager of the
team)

Personally I would start full scrum with only three developers. If I
had two I would do everything in scrum except I wouldn't bother with a
scrum master. I would even follow most of the stuff in scrum if I was
working alone except I would replace the team meeting times with
'reflection' times where I could run things over in my head or the
white board and extract my thoughts that way. Although doing it alone
would probably be difficult if you hadn't got experience of Scrum in a
team environment already.

[Miika Makinen]

Some (a bit unfortunate) news about this... just got a mail from the trainer that will have to move to next year.

Chris, could be great to give a scrum primer speech at bar camp though, right?

[Chris Brown]

Yes I will be presenting the slides from the official scrum course at
bar camp.

On Sep 1, 11:22 am, "Miika Makinen" <mmi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Some (a bit unfortunate) news about this... just got a mail from the trainer
> that will have to move to next year.
>
> Chris, could be great to give a scrum primer speech at bar camp though,
> right?
>