This was my first trip to Kansas City. I have flown over the city many times on my way to the west coast but, never had the pleasure of stopping to visit.

We ran our 1st Certified ScrumMaster training course in Kansas City and it was phenominal. The class participants got a ton out of it and when the class goes extremely well so do I.

 During this class we delivered a pre-beta-beta scrum exam.

 It just brings a smile

- Doug Shimp

Hand Written Insights and Evaluations from the class

VersionOne and 3Back offered their first co-hosted Certified ScrumMaster training event in San Mateo, California. This was the first time these two companies co-hosted a joint public event. The event was nothing short of spectacular and continued to show a proven track that these two agile oriented companies are leaders in their complementary market niches. Both companies continue to raise the bar of what passes for excellence in Scrum (Agile) training, tools and implementations.

There were 11 folks in attendance and each person provided an evaluation.

See for yourself Handwritten Scanned Evaluations

 Michele Sliger with Sliger Consulting and Douglas Shimp with 3Back LLC ran a 2 day joint
Certified ScrumMaster training in El Segundo, CA  on May 12-13, 2008.

This was the second time we worked together to deliver a Scrum Training course and the duet is getting better each time.  The course was delivered as a two trainer combo who quickly established rapport. By working as a tag team we zeroed in on answering questions and greatly improved learning. The experiences that both trainers/consultants can bring to the table magnified the enrichment experience for the students. We leveraged multiple mediums for feedback and learning including numerous pictures, simulations and applied experiences from real world scrum implementations.

Scrum understanding is growing in the agile community. We see evidence of this by nature of the questions being asked. Questions are changing from previous courses in Scrum to a deeper focus on tuning / applying scrum.

We would like to thank all attendees. These courses are best
when we all learn. We like these courses best when the questions
are challenging. Your questions were often challenging and
presented opportunities for the trainers to learn as well.

 Thank you for choosing to spend your time with us.

Michele and Doug

The title is a little dramatic :)  but, it was a 40 year storm. The last day of the certified scrummaster course we got hit with a 18 inch storm which challenged a record that has been standing since 1961.

 This course was delivered by Doug Shimp and Sam Hazziez.

 Again we have continued to show that agile courses delivered as a duet offer a better richer experience for attendees. Students learn to apply the framework of scrum and they actually experience the framework applied by a well-formed-team in flight as they deliver the course in a scrum like manner.

The picture shown right was our 2-days of frontburner, backburner, fridge and done (product backlog and sprint backlog. 

Thank you for the time you took to spend with us. We appreciate all of the good insights and conversation we generated.

- Doug & Sam

We ran another Certified ScrumMaster course in Cupertino, CA (San Jose Area). The course was delivered by Michele Sliger from Sliger Consulting and Doug Shimp from 3Back.

Scrum Framework!

This course was another great success. We continue to validate our model that courses taught by two instructors are more powerful and enriching for both the students and the instructors. We found out yet again that we learn as much as the students learn when the course is run right. 

The highlight in this course for me, and there were many, was “Agile Mind”. After our last retrospective the class noted what they didn’t expect to learn and did learn “Agile Mind”

For those interested in the next step of certification the Scrum Alliance has outlined the CSP

Thank you to all participants for making this a great course.

 All the best

- Doug and Michele

Coaching in Scrum and how to work with multiple teams by Derek W. Wade on December 17-18 in Tulsa, OK.

All,

Thank you for attending the certified Scrum Master training event held in Chicago.

The class size was small,  5 total and really let discussions move quickly. I believe that a small class size offers and intense interaction experience that is just not possible when numbers exceed 14 or so.

In addition to all of the content we covered here are my take aways for you

• Make it visible
• Let the Product Lead
• Don’t Solve a Problem you Don’t have
• One Bite at a Time
• Cooperation is Oil

Any comments, thoughts or insights that you have about the course would be appreciated and we would like to post them here. Please feel free to sign or not sign your name to the comment. If you are a blogger then trackbacks to this page are appreciated.

All the best

- Doug

BTW - Please feel free to attend any of our other upcoming events on Scrum, Applied Agile, Working Effectively with Use Cases, Agile Requirements, Adaptive Planning, etc.