Today is my first day back from the Scrum Master Certification course I took in Milan. Coming back to work was quite a shock – the landscape around my office was radically transformed:
Truth be told, they had been tearing the building down for some weeks now, very carefully, and bit by bit. Every now and then, our building shakes from the big excavators breaking up some huge chunk of concrete. I got used to that, but nearly forgot about it during my absence. Most shockingly, a whole building that we used to walk through on our way to lunch is now completely gone, and we’re taking a stroll through rubble instead.
On to more constructive things: I was introduced to Scrum (more about this method here), a lean method to manage agile projects. While this has made waves mostly in software development circles, it can be applied to any project in rapidly changing and evolving environment. Joseph Pelrine, our teacher, went out of his way to make the course a memorable experience to all of us, trying to transmit the fundamentals of this method through rules and explanations, but also many anecdotes of how to do things right or wrong. I can warmly recommend his method of teaching Scrum. I am now allowed to call myself a Certified Scrum Master… and I am planning to apply my knowledge at work as soon as possible. As they say, Scrum is easy (to learn) but hard (to master).
