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    Agile/Scrum/XP Training

Jay Conne Consulting  

jay@jconne.com  




Scrum is built on trust - from openness, a commitment to truth and rapid delivery of value.

My sources are many wise practitioners, coaches, writers and trainers as well as my personal experience from four decades in the computer field. I also have a passion for teaching, healthy psychology and a practical, objective philosophy. I offer a great breadth of courses and talks sized and focused for your particular needs. For example:
  • Scrum Introduction for Senior Management
  • Scrum, a Management Introduction
  • Scrum, an Introduction for Teams
  • Scrum Project Team Launch Training and Workshop
  • Scrum, Product Owner Training
  • Scrum, User Story Writing Workshop
  • Lean, Agile, Scrum, XP - Myth and Fact
  • The Secrets of Self-Organizing and Self-Managing Teams
  • Project Management, A Historical Odyssey - How Did We Get in this Pickle?
  • Scrum, an Ethical, Earned-Trust, Interaction Model
  • Scrum-Agile Failure Modes
  • Retrospectives for Team-Driven, Continuous Improvement
  • Lean Principles Workshop: Pull-Driven, Batch Size, Cycle Time, etc.
  • XP Engineering Discipline: TDD, TFD, Pairing, Emerging Architecture, etc.
  • Agile - What Makes it Hard?

Why Agile?

First Principles:
  • Reality always wins in the end,
    -- So get there sooner.
  • Pretending to know what we don't know
    -- gets in the way of learning
    (and we can't get caught trying to learn it!)
  • The world runs on trust.
    How do you get and maintain trust?
    -- Go back and read the first two. --
How does this relate to Agile software development?
  • Ask yourself, "How much trust have you seen between
    management and software development teams?"
    (This generally gets a huge negative reaction.)
  • Why is that? I believe we have a history of self-deception.
  • Management demands a plan and subordinates give them one
  • Is there any reality to it?
    (People laugh out loud!)
  • We feel forced to represent speculation as planning
    and then we are measured against that speculation.
Research on software project success shows the costly, wasteful, frustrating consequences of this history. It makes work and life in general, terribly frustrating for both development teams and those that employ them. We deserve better - and that's why an Agile alternative is attracting so much attention.

Our introductory courses present the source of the flawed assumptions and the Agile alternatives to support the need for a creative, discovery process. Agile's approach is gaining great momentum today and I predict it will soon dominate our industry.

Scrum is a simple management framework that starts people on the right foot and keeps them asking the right questions.

Jay Conne
Lean-Agile Coach and Trainer
Certified ScrumMaster-Practicing










Jay Conne Consulting
617-776-0339 -- Jay@jconne.com





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