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I have been doing a lot of training lately, mostly in the form of Scrum Team, ScrumMaster and Product Owner classes. A teacher’s job is to impart information, hopefully developed further into knowledge that can lead to informed action. Many “learning” environments stop at the first step – delivering facts. This does not work well for Scrum training. There are not many facts to deliver. There are principles and common practices to talk about but in the end it is the intrinsic understanding and feel of Scrum that is needed for success. Read more…
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Here are some ideas that came up in a discussion with others who shared their experience and ideas about training from a distance.
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I am now a Certified Scrum Trainer®.
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My favorite class to teach is TDD. I like to challenge developers to stretch their brains into new territory. They do it every day in other ways. Learning TDD is a level higher than solving algorithm and design challenges. It is about changing the way you approach programming altogether. And my favorite situation is to see the light go on in the mind of someone who starts out as a skeptic. “I’m here because my boss said I had to go” kind of people. Great fun.
Sometime I get challenges back. By now, after doing this for a few years, I can answer many of the predicatable questions pretty easily. Every once in a while I get some harder questions. I thought I would share some of these and the answers I came up with.
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Collaboration is fundamental to successful agile projects. A team of people working together toward a shared goal will create a different product than a group of individuals working alone on parallel assignments to be integrated later. Collaboration supplies automatic load balancing, constant discussion and generation of new ideas and communication on the status of the work. A goal for successful agile practice is to foster collaboration in the team. There is much in the literature about how to do this, nicely summed up in Jean Tabaka’s great book,Collaboration Explained.
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