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Tobias Mayer, whom I received my CSM training from, is doing an optional extra day of training tomorrow in a “scrum of scrums” environment, for those of us who were in the initial session of his novel (and successful!) WelfareCSM Scrum training project.

One of the things that I love about Tobias’ method of traning is that he strongly advocates for Scrum as a system for achieving results in many areas of life, and not just in software development.

For example, here is what we’ll be doing in tomorrow’s Scrum additional training session.

“If you are coming to the CSM Day 3 session please show up … between 8.30 and 8.45.  Lunch will be brown bag with a view to sharing.  There is a fridge and microwave and coffee-making facilities on the  premises. Lunch will be around 12.30-1.30 and the day will end at 5pm.

The vision:
A 5-6′ span hanging mobile on the theme of tropical rain forests.

We will build this from various raw craft materials, no pre-built pieces.  You will have to coordinate the architecture and the individual features of the mobile between the 3-5 Scrum teams we’ll have.  I am the customer, and each team will have a PO to represent me.

That’s all for now.  Bring any materials you feel might be suitable
for this project.  I’ll supply most of what you’ll need.

See you tomorrow.”

So tomorrow I’ll be getting up at 7am and driving down to a Palto Alto church (Tobias is a fan of using community spaces for Agile training) to spend my day in a multiple-scrum environment building a large rainforest-themed mobile with one of the best Scrum trainers that I’ve worked with.

Couldn’t ask for a more intriguing Friday!