The last 2 days I followed a Scrum Master training to become a certified Scrum Master given by Joseph Pelrine.  As I'm already using scrum for almost 3 years now, it was nice to have some course around it.  I must say even after 3 years, you still learn new things.  I will just give some interresting points about this course, but the whole 2 days were interresting (and yes Joseph I don't want to give too much info, just make people warm for your course).

1. Joseph's rules about Scrum (and I totally agree with them)
   • We don't make mistakes, we learn
   • If you don't have fun, there's something wrong (I can say we had some great fun during this course)
2. Scrum is a system of 3's
   • 3 Roles
   • 3 types of Meetings
   • 3 types of documents
3. "Turn up the heat" of your team so they come out of their daily routine
4. Although in my previous blogpost about Scrum (written in 2005) I have talked that a good sprint length would be 30 days, but it's better to find a spint length where have a good feeling.  And don't talk ind ays or months but in weeks.
5. Also I wrote down that the meetings should be taken 4 hours max, I must say let's downsized it till 90 minutes with a max of 2 hours.  BTW Joseph will give you some more great tips.
6. Very interresting was the part about Multiple Teams/Multiple Projects
7. We got some great tips for doing the Daily Scrum Meeting
8. And last but not least : You can setup several rules for your team and for the Product Owner

I learned a lot of new features, and I hope I can follow som other courses from Joseph (Particuly I'm interrested in the "Coaching of self organising teams" as I see this as a follow up of the Scum course).

So if you are interrested in this and want to follow a course just contact Joseph, and he will tell you more.

BTW : The chickens and pigs are still alive in Scrum .

BTW 2 : I had great time of fun with Joseph and Maddalena the first evening in Leuven and the second evening before I drove them back to the airport.  Txs you two.