bookmark_borderI’m a Certified Scrum Trainer® (CST)!

After a 3 year journey, I was invited to a Scrum Alliance® TAC (Trainer Approval Community) in Vienna 2 weeks ago! The last 10 months have been intense, readying myself for this invitation. I didn’t know if I was going to get a TAC spot this year, but I prepared as though I was. No matter what happened, I knew that it was going to be a learning experience. An opportunity!

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bookmark_borderUpcoming Talks and Workshops

I’m going to be giving a few talks and workshops over the next 3 months. Hope to see you there.

Scrum User Group of South Africa (Cape Town, South Africa) – October 2017 – Workshop: no one is as smart as all of us – rebooting collaboration. 

Learning Outcomes: Understand the characteristics of good collaboration; understand what are the favourable conditions for collaboration; gamestorm new approaches to collaboration.

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bookmark_borderPersonal: From Waterfall to Agile

This article was originally posted on April 20, 2013. Much has changed since then on my development and it is worthwhile reflecting back since then.

...for a long time now I've wanted to chart my Agile journey. It started 3 years ago and because I aim for continuous improvement personally and professionally, this journey will not be over any time soon.

To understand the above statement I feel I need to explain that before I fell into Agile, Scrum, to be specific, I had been a Project Manager delivering projects rather successfully using traditional or waterfall methods for 10 years already. I resisted Scrum for 3 months and when the magic started happening, despite my confused feelings about letting go and not trying to control everything all the time, I became an instant convert.

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