Training

Happy team, satisfied customers

by gerrykirk on Apr 23, 09

If you are going to the Plone Symposium East, or considering going, this post is for you. I’m offering a one day course on the fundamentals of Scrum, the most popular Agile software development framework. It’ll be a fun, hands-on experience, using games instead of Powerpoint slides to teach. The catch is I need 10 [...]

The Road to Scrum is Paved with Lego (updated)

by gerrykirk on Apr 02, 09

Games are a fun, interactive, effective way to teach. A dose of competition mixed with social interaction keeps people engaged. You learn by doing and reflecting on the experience. Powerpoint, your time is over. Until recently, I hadn’t had the opportunity to use learning games, since most of my work as an Agile coach is [...]

ITSSM Software Development Workshop: Introducing Agile

by gerrykirk on Mar 16, 09

Agile, Python, QA, Rational Unified Process and Ruby on Rails. IT folk in Sault Ste. Marie got a smorgasborg of technology, tools and processes at the Innovation Centre’s Software Development Best Practices Workshop. I was the warm-up act, introducing Agile and I chose to do that through a learning game. 5 teams worked on a [...]