Friday, September 11, 2009

Codelean’s 2nd ScrumMaster Certification Course—Raising Awareness of Agile Software Development in the Country

Codelean, Inc.’s second ScrumMaster Certification Course, held recently at the Dusit Hotel in Makati City, continued to raise awareness of Agile software practices in the country. The course was an even bigger success than the first one, with 25 attendees from software companies of different industries. Once again, Dutch Agile expert Bas Vodde was on hand to lead the discussion for the two-day event, which featured a mix of lectures, discussions, and participatory exercises designed to instill the values and philosophies of Scrum among the attendees.

Ronaldo Rebenque of US Autoparts (Philippines) remarked that the course was “very informational.” He added, “It gave me the know-how, tools, techniques, and concepts that I can use in future projects.” Butch Landingin, CTO of Orange & Bronze, also gleaned a lot of practical knowledge from the course. “Bas has a lot of practical experience with Scrum and he’s been sharing a lot of those stories. I found those stories to be the most valuable part of the course,” said Landingin. “We will be changing some of our company’s practices because of what we’ve learned in the course. “

Both professionals highly recommend the course to other companies. “I would definitely recommend the course to everyone in software development teams, not just the project leaders, but the developers, testers, analysts, architects,” said Rebenque. “Because Scrum is about self-managing teams, everybody will be responsible for managing their work.”

With the aim of promoting Agile practices in the local software industry, CodeLean is set to hold two more Scrum courses soon: the Product Owner’s Course in December or January, and another ScrumMaster Course in February. CodeLean has also sponsored an initiative named Agile Philippines.

CodeLean is a training and consulting services company that specializes in technical training and coaching in Agile methodologies, as well as provides consulting to companies who need to improve the efficiency and management of their IT department .

For more information about CodeLean, visit www.codelean.com. The Agile Philippines web site is located at www.agile.ph.

No comments:

Post a Comment