My focus over the last year or two has been on Agile Transformations.  To that end i have started a blog/website over at www.chiefagilityofficer.com that you might want to check out...

See you over there

There will be more updates coming to the site soon, but meanwhile follow me on twitter for more updates.

Save $100 on our Certified Scrum Master course. Following on from the success of our first CSM class in Sydney last week Kane Mar and I will be delivering the second of our co-trained CSM classes in Melbourne on July 14th and 15th.

Similar to last time, ScrumMaster.com.au is offering a special $100 discount to its readers and friends, we look forward to seeing you there!

For more information about the course please see here

Click this link to register for the course and enter the special discount code JBMELB20100714 into the box.

Save $100 on our Certified Scrum Master course. Kane Mar and I will be delivered the first of our co-trained CSM classes in Sydney on June 9th and 10th.

To celebrate this ScrumMaster.com.au is offering a special $100 discount to its readers and friends.

For more information about the course please see here

Click this link to register for the course and enter the special discount code JBSYD20100609 into the box.

Apologies:  This is my first post for what looks like months and for that I have to apologise.  Back in July 2009 I started working with Suncorp as an Agile Coach, coaching them through one of the biggest Agile transitions in Australia.  They have in the region of 2000 people in the IT department alone!   It’s been a very busy time and I have been working on some interesting projects and tasks at Suncorp, one of which was an Agile Maturity Assessment (AMA) which we performed across the whole of the IT organisation on numerous projects spanning all the vertical businesses within Suncorp such as Commercial and Personal Insurance, Corporate Systems, Infrastructure, Banking and Life and our New Zealand teams. 
I plan a strong return to the website, with new and updated information, articles and other exciting material which I hope you will enjoy.

JAOO recently ran a number of conferences in Australia. They have now made the presentations freely available online for all to download.

You can find the Brisbane sessions here… http://jaoo.com.au/brisbane-2009/schedule/monday.jsp

Below is collection of agile related presentations for your viewing pleasure…

The Power of Retrospectives
http://jaoo.com.au/brisbane-2009/file?path=/jaoo-sydney-2009/slides/LindaRising_ThePowerOfRetrospectives.pdf

Scaling Scrum with feature teams
http://jaoo.com.au/brisbane-2009/file?path=/jaoo-sydney-2009/slides//BasVodde_ScalingScrum.pdf

How your choices influence your agility
http://jaoo.com.au/brisbane-2009/file?path=/jaoo-brisbane-2009/slides/SteveHayes_HowYourChoicesInfluenceYourAgility.pdf

Lessons Learned in Programmer Testing
http://jaoo.com.au/brisbane-2009/file?path=/jaoo-sydney-2009/slides/JamesNewkirk_LessonsLearnedInProgrammerTesting.pdf

Description and Estimation How We Fool Ourselves
http://jaoo.com.au/brisbane-2009/file?path=/jaoo-sydney-2009/slides/LindaRising_DeceptionAndEstimationHowWeFoolOurselves.pdf

I have been asked a number of times for a short presentation introducing Scrum. I find it difficult to cover all the aspects of Scrum, agile and team software development in two days let alone 2 hours.  So I have structured the content of the presentation around the new “Scrum Guide” published by Ken Schwaber recently. I did this to ensure that i covered the basics as Ken sees them; the roles, the flow, the theory and artefacts. I am making this freely available here and would love to hear any feedback you may have, so please use the feedback form if you have anything, good or bad to say.

Enjoy....