There are some great upcoming Certified ScrumMaster courses through Agile University that can jump start your resume and give your skill set a competitive edge. December 9-10 in Santa Clara use discount code = SC15 for 15% off December 15-16 in NYC, NY use discount code = DECNYC20 for 20% off Also be sure to check out Writing Effective Use Cases by Alistair Cockburn and 360 Degree Agile Workshop by David Bernstein.

There are some great upcoming Certified ScrumMaster courses through Agile University that can jump start your resume and give your skill set a competitive edge. December 9-10 in Santa Clara use discount code = SC15 for 15% off December 15-16 in NYC, NY use discount code = DECNYC20 for 20% off Also be sure to check out Writing Effective Use Cases by Alistair Cockburn and 360 Degree Agile Workshop by David Bernstein. Here are the course listings: Certified ScrumMaster Training Date: 12/9/09 – 12/10/09 Location: Santa Clara, CA Trainer: Hubert Smits – Rally Software Course Overview This two-day ScrumMaster certification course taught by Scrum Alliance Certified Scrum Trainers provides everything you need to get started with Scrum. One of the largest and fastest-growing Agile project management frameworks, Scrum is a simple software management technique that has a small set of interrelated practices and rules, is not overly prescriptive and is able to produce productivity gains for software development teams almost immediately. This course shares time-tested practices for managing product backlogs, planning your releases and iterations (Sprints) and tracking and reporting progress. You'll learn how to plan and run Sprint Planning Meetings, daily Scrum Meetings, Sprint Reviews, Sprint Retrospectives and more! On completion, participants are registered as Certified ScrumMasters (CSMs), which includes a one-year membership in the Scrum Alliance, (www.scrumalliance.org) where valuable ScrumMaster-material and information are available exclusively to CSMs. Agenda • Introduction to Agile Principles • Introduction to Scrum Principles o Scrum Core Elements & Practices o Product Visioning o Roles & Responsibilities o Product Backlog & Release Planning o Sprint Backlog & Sprint Planning o Sprint o Daily Standup Meeting o Burndown Charts & Project Reporting o Sprint Review & Retrospective o The 59 Minute Scrum Participants of this course will be eligible to apply for 16 PDU's toward their continuing education requirements with the PMI (Program Management Institute) New York City, NY: Certified ScrumMaster Training Date: 12/15/09 – 12/16/09 Location: New York City, NY Trainer: Tamara Sulaiman – Rally Software Course Overview This two-day ScrumMaster certification course taught by Scrum Alliance Certified Scrum Trainers provides everything you need to get started with Scrum. One of the largest and fastest-growing Agile project management frameworks, Scrum is a simple software management technique that has a small set of interrelated practices and rules, is not overly prescriptive and is able to produce productivity gains for software development teams almost immediately. This course shares time-tested practices for managing product backlogs, planning your releases and iterations (Sprints) and tracking and reporting progress. You'll learn how to plan and run Sprint Planning Meetings, daily Scrum Meetings, Sprint Reviews, Sprint Retrospectives and more! On completion, participants are registered as Certified ScrumMasters (CSMs), which includes a one-year membership in the Scrum Alliance, (www.scrumalliance.org) where valuable ScrumMaster-material and information are available exclusively to CSMs. Agenda • Introduction to Agile Principles • Introduction to Scrum Principles o Scrum Core Elements & Practices o Product Visioning o Roles & Responsibilities o Product Backlog & Release Planning o Sprint Backlog & Sprint Planning o Sprint o Daily Standup Meeting o Burndown Charts & Project Reporting o Sprint Review & Retrospective o The 59 Minute Scrum Participants of this course will be eligible to apply for 16 PDU's toward their continuing education requirements with the PMI (Program Management Institute) Cheers, Chase Doelling info@agileu.org Agile University

After doing SCRUM for three years a little write up of the things you should take in mind to implement a good scrum

Learn how to increase productivity in development and streamline manual application testing. See how issue reporting can be fast and easy with automatic data collection. For Java, Python and PHP you can even collect application server logs.

I have been inspired by a post by Soon Hui to write about my mistakes. I have evolved much on the programming side during these years, but my biggest mistakes have been social and economic: dealing with other people. Thus, I have collect a list of my errors committed as a php freelance developer.