info Gerd Saurer on 29 Sep 2007 06:09 am
Scrum Master
Yesterday I finished the Scrum Master training and I have to say that I am a little bit disappointed. Our trainer went to some other issues of the scrum process itself but as yesterday there was nothing really new to me.
At the end of the course we did the Velocity Game with about 90 participants split into 15 groups. They gave us User Stories for the Product backlog e.g find one missing card in a deck of cards and we as a team had to estimate them first. Afterwards every team had to choose an Productowner which was me in ours. He sorted the product backlog in an way he likes the team to do the work. Every Story had an business value and of course the Product owner has to care to get the highest out of his group. After everything was set up the team was asked to estimate their velocity. Then the the team had to solve the User Stories in an given amount of time like a Sprint in Scrum. When the work was finished every group found their actual velocity, new User Stories where handed out and everything started from the beginning.
I really liked the game because everyone got an feeling how it will work in real life. Special in our group this was not new to most of us but it was fun. In the end there was no test like for other Certifications and we all passed.
If you wonder why I am posting this in the very early morning 5:30 ECT. This is an really funny story (at leas in the end). I left from Aarhus as planed by bus to the Airport. In the bus there where several participants from the JAOO conference so we had the chance to talk a little bit about our experiences. As I arrived at airport check in the nice woman told me that I am not allowed to check my luggages through to the flight to Vienna. I only had 40 minutes to reached the next flight to Vienna and as some of you might know the International Terminal in Copenhagen is about 1km away from the local one. So I already felt that it will be hart to catch it. So I went to the boarding area and surprise surprise - 30 minutes delay. Now it was clear that I will never catch the next flight. I came to Copenhagen Airport with about 1 hour delay. The thin that was nice about it was that Eric Evans was on the same flight and we had time for an retrospective on JAOO 2007. As I arrived on the Airport everything started getting complicated. As I booked the flights separately. There where big troubles getting my flight changed to an other one. Finally they did it, maybe also because I have a Miles & More Card. So my flight is going in about an hour therefor I stayed at the airport the whole night. For me it is really interesting how the airports are designed. There drink automates only take cash which is a little bit tricky because if you just arrive you normally may not have DKK. The Chairs in the Transfer Terminal and over the whole airport are just a little bit to small that you can take a sleep. Internet is just free because the JAOO account is also works here. So there is a lot of stuff Airport Planers may consider if they would have been in an situation like me before they design the airport.
