Archive for August, 2010

Who is Mariana? True to the best journalistic style that doesn’t reveal its sources, sometimes for professional or ethic reasons and many other times just for fun (to annoy the audience), I won’t reveal his true identity. Let’s call it simply “Mariana.”

“Mariana” is one of the students who attended one of the Scrum courses I taught this year. Upon finalization, I gathered all my stuff, including the material usually used as letters, cards, post-its, tape rolls, markers, etc. Later when I got home, I proceed to arrange all those things and found this paper:

Infallible laws to Implement Scrum

1. Do it Iterativly, Incrementaly

2. Don’t try to cover everything from the beginning

3. Manage the expectations for the first Sprints

4. Don’t feel overwhelmed by all the impediments that will arise (previously hidden)

5. Have courage, experience and let experience – Its nor bad to fail, it’s bad if you don’t learn from your failure.

Well, the truth is that I do not know who was the author of this note because it wasn’t signed. Just guess it was a woman because she folded the paper very suspiciously neat and so I called her “Mariana.” Today I regret this haven’t been shared with the rest of the class, it would have been very productive, but at least the good thing is that she understood what it is to bring Scrum to practice.

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