To do or not to do, that’s the question.

One thing i learned during my SCRUM Master Certification Training was that: there is no such thing as “I am doing SCRUM but…”, there is no SCRUM BUT framework, either your are or you are not doing it.

There are some signs that could lead you to the sad conclusion that, after all, you are not doing SCRUM at all.

Some members of the team complain about the Daily Meeting usefulness

When one, or some members of the team start to complain about the loss of that 15 minutes during the day, that could mean that:

1. You team is not self-managed
2. Not ALL the team is focused on the SAME goal.

So, fixed or leave it, is my advise!

Alexandre Magno talked about it on Adpatworks blog post, Mike Cohn too, on his “Ssssh….Agile Is All About Micromanaging” blog post.

Just got the time to attend the Certified Scrum Master Training and Certification.

At the beginning i was believing that i would be there 2 days listening to the same topics once again, as i already had read about it on online presentations. Well, i was wrong! I got a lot of good knowledge from the Certification Training and i would suggest it to those of you who are trying to implement Scrum into your teams.

The Certification Training program was the following:

• Overview of Scrum
• Sprints
• The Scrum Master
• The product owner
• Product backlog
• Meetings
• Sprint planning
• Release planning
• Tracking progress
• The team
• Scalability

When you’re attending to the training many questions will pop up in your head, the main one that popped out on my head and in most of my class mates was “How will i implement this on my team ?”.

I will try to answer to this question on a future blog post, because that will need experimentation, presentations and mentality change over here on my company.

So, the first thing that i would advise to everyone that has this question over the head is:

Plan, Plan, Plan and Plan the implementation process.

If you are not familiarized with SCRUM, here you have some links about the subject.

• ScrumAlliance.org
• MountainGoatSoftware.com