Gerd’s Blog

So I have just returned from the first day of the Certified Scrum Master Class. Our Trainer is Gabrielle Benefield. First of course we had to introduce our self and I was impressed because most of the people in the room had already knowledge about Agile Processes and in particular about scrum. She started with some introduction and after that it was up to us which particular part of the process we wanted to dig deeper into. First the participants wanted to know more about estimating so we did some card estimation game and it was really funny and also astonishing that all five teams came up with nearly the same estimates.
After lunch Gabrielle talked about which planing should be done including Vision, Road map and Release Plan and all the roles that are involved in the process and step deeper into how we can Track the Progress.
There was nothing really new to me in the calss until now and I also don’t think there will come some tomorrow. This is not bad the much more interesting stuff are the discussions with the participants and some Retrospectives what worked and what did not for them. I do not think Gabrielle had a class that was already that familiar with the process until now so when I spoke with her after the class she was really amazed about it.

At least the Scrum Master Class reminded me that maybe we stepped a little bit to far from the original scrum process in our company. I will have to think a little bit about this but as it looks to me until now we should take a step back. I think the time for doing so is perfect at the moment as we are starting some kind of bigger refactoring and advancement for the InTime suite.

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