Re: I want to cope with u

[James O. Coplien]

Hi, Laxmihari,

O.K., welcome!

Don't worry about December being busy. We have a long time to plan.

The first thing we need to do is to set dates. I was thinking of a time near the end of November 2011. I know that is far off, but my calendar is full through September, and an end-of-November date would fit well with other projected travel plans.

Let me propose 28 - 30 November. Does that work for you? I am copying Gertrud Bjørnvig, my colleague, who owns my calendar and must also approve the dates. We also must coordinate with Donna Farmer.

Other things we need to do soon (in the next two months or so) is:

- To translate and post the event announcement;

- To put a registration process in place;

- To create a Product Backlog to drive the deliverables for the event.

I know that you can probably handle all the needs independently, but I'd encourage you to involve more people directly. One of our goals is to build community, and we do that by giving several people responsibility from the beginning. If you have management aspirations this will be good practice in delegation and leadership :-)

Another thing that we probably need to have done early on is a translation of the announcement. Please advise me whether you think that is necessary. We found it important in Japan which, though a very high-tech culture, is rather ingrown with respect to language skills, so people are not fluent in English. Also, as Nepalese folks use search engines to find the event we want the right keywords to match up.

Here is the English language text.

Teaser:

Will you take the red pill or the blue pill? Most Scrum courses are about the responsibilities of the ScrumMaster and the team — the blue pill — while ignoring the integrated role of management and the importance of converting your enterprise to Scrum, top-to-bottom. Come and learn about the red pill.

Announcement:

Will you take the red pill or the blue pill? Most Scrum courses are about the responsibilities of the ScrumMaster and the team — the blue pill — while ignoring the integrated role of management and the importance of converting your enterprise to Scrum, top-to-bottom. Come and learn about the red pill.

Description (Textile formatted)

Will you take the red pill or the blue pill? Most Scrum courses are about the responsibilities of the ScrumMaster and the team — the blue pill — while ignoring the integrated role of management and the importance of converting your enterprise to Scrum, top-to-bottom. The blue pill will give you 10% or 20% improvements, and can maybe even double your performance. I’d rather have the class aim for one or two orders of magnitude in their implementations back home. The class will choose — and in any case, the blue pill junkies will have enough to take back home to get their 10% or 20%. For the rest, you’re in for a great ride. And, in any case, in this course, we’ll immerse you in those experiences, and you’ll emerge empowered to take on the world of high-powered product development.

This two-day seminar is designed to give aspiring and beginning ScrumMasters and team members the foundations of Scrum and Agile practice. Chock full of exercises, the seminar creates lasting memories and learnings you can carry through into your team so you can avoid common Agile pitfalls. The seminar is designed and taught by Jim Coplien, author of Organizational Patterns, which Pete Behrens says “identif[ies] the key criteria leading to successful efforts and high-performing teams,” that Michael Beedle calls “the first documentation that ever existed on true Agile development,” and about which Linda Rising says “the penalty for not knowing these patterns can be severe.” The seminar draws on the principles and deep structures of these Agile foundations to go beyond rote learning and sound bites to a deep and lasting foundation for software development excellence. The course draws on years of broad experience with international and multisite development.

By the end of the course you will …:

• …become part of the Scrum community

• …gain new tools for effective team communication

• …start improving delivery of a committed product in a supportive and productive work environment

• …have mastered skills in widely-practiced planning techniques

• …know how to soberly and astutely take charge of change

• …foresee immediate improvements in your quality and almost certain improvements in customer satisfaction

• …have skills to help your team work seamlessly as a true team

• … know how to bring problems to the surface so you can fix them

• …deeply feel the power of working as an uninterrupted team

• …gain confidence in taking ownership of your product’s destiny

• …learn the satisfaction of being a servant leader

I'll post the translated text to the ScrumTrainingInstitute and ScrumAlliance sites for the Nepalese event. Let me suggest that you recruit one of the other volunteers to do the translation, or perhaps you can team up on the task.

We also need to talk about how to handle registration. I can handle the mechanics on scrumtraininginstitute.org. However, that approach has problems. I want this to be a local event for people who can't afford to travel to other training (say, in India or Australia). The registrations should come locally from Nepal or Tibet. I would suggest excluding anyone who works directly for a multinational corporation (IBM, etc.). We should limit the number of consultants or single-person company employees we allow on the course; this course should target people who are building products on teams. The typical target is small- to medium-sized local companies (10 - 50 people). We should limit the number of attendees so that no single company sends more than 2 people. 

These constraints will be difficult for me to manage from here, so I think we need to have someone local approve the registrations. That could be you. I suggest that people contact you initially. You should give an immediate approval or denial based on the above criteria. Approved attendees would be able to register for the course on scrumtraininginstitute.com.

Maybe you could also set up a Google Docs account for the event. We could post the Product Backlog for the event there, to keep track of deliverables along the way (securing a venue, doing the translations, posting announcements, arranging travel, etc.)

On Dec 12, 2010, at 6:15 , Laxmihari Nepal wrote:

Dear James,

Its my pleasure to say that i understood the project and as i said before i am very much interested in such a projects. Dear James, by the way , i am little more busy in this month of December because my CCNA (cisco certified network associate ) training and my semester exam  is going on simultaneously. In coming time i would be available more frequently. At the time of this projects in Nepal my study will also finished  so that i will be free.I want to say this much only that i can manage all your needs in Nepal independently and confidently to make this projects  happens successfully. Keep on messaging me what jobs should i start at what time for your convenience.

Would you mind to send me some hints of course materials so i can motivate trainees for courses . And what should be the size of each class ? what would be if we run classes in colleges rather than in hotels ?

I will try to write more about this.

And i will be very glad to forward you other informations about me if you need.

Please be in touch .

regards,

Laxmi Hari Nepal