What Scrum is and is not

I attended DFW Scrum at Addison, Dallas on 01/17/2012. It was a great gathering because the founder of Scrum Ken Schwaber was addressing the gathering via WebEx. There were 100 to 125 scrummers gathered and listened to his talk on "What Scrum is and is not". Ken started with how scrum priciples are being followed in many organisations. Then he mentioned about the following points
- Scrum Continuous improvement (scrum+1, Scrum+2, Scrum+3, Scrum+4 and Scrum+5)
- Some changes in Scrum Guide 2011 and 2012. Chicken and Pig were removed from scrum teriminology
- A well matured Scrum (Scrum+5) team creates a forecast of work and believes it will be done, but that forecast will change as more becomes known.
- Plan "Ordered" instead of Prioritized
- Past velocity into the future
- Gain a stability - past velocity but that does not equal to predicalibility
- There is no such Hybrid method "Waterfall"+"Scrum"
I posted a question, "Do we still have two teams like QA and Dev in a Scrum Team ?". He answered "No, there is only one team, it is team's responsibilities for development and testing".
He also pointed out that QA person can be a good Architecture and he can share his ideas in his own interest.
I really enjoyed that 1.5 hours session and that too from an authority of Scrum.

Following Scrum in US

I reached Dallas,TX,US for an on-site assignment on Jul 2011. Once again this project is being delivered in SCRUM. The SCRUM is being followed 100% in this project. I really like it whenever I attend stand up/reviews/retros.

Agile Automation with Scrum - Workshop

Conducted a workshop on "Agile Automation with Scrum" at Wipro Technologies, Bangalore. There were exactly 9 members (ideal for Scrum) for the workshop.
The participants are from different background and its a mix of PMs, PLs, and PEs. Simulated Scrum Activities, such as, daily stand-ups, creating product backlogs, sprint backlogs, etc. were taken place in the training.

The main focus of this workshop is how to implement Automated Regression Testing projects in Agile/Scrum environment. The session was very lively and interactive. Participants were highly charged with Scrum....

IBM RSC 2009

I felt so honoured when I was called to present my paper in IBM RSC 2009. The same event, when it was happened last year 2008, I thought I should be one of the speakers in the conference. By God's grace, it was happened so. My paper title was "The Need of Rational Quality Manager in the world of Scrum and Agile Testing" . Presented on 13 Aug 2009.



It was a wonderful experience to present a paper in Seven Star hotel, Leela Palace, Bangalore one among all the Rational Gurus from US. It was lasted for an hour. There were lot questions on Scrum environment. I was so comfortable in giving answers. There was heterogenous crowd, may be all people from different IT organisation. I am also thankful to my Managers who gave permission to present the papers.

My name is displaying in IBM site as one of the speakers.

http://www-07.ibm.com/events/in/rsc2009/bgn_agenda2.html