After the success of our last Scrum Bangalore Event in May, we will be having our second Scrum Bangalore User Group event on the 31st July'10 at the Ramada Hotel. I would like the participation of all the group members of Scrum Bangalore to make this event a success and a fun filled one. Please go ahead and RSVP yourself.

Please find the details of the 2nd Scrum Bangalore Meetup Event:
Participation: Free of Cost and participants should be excited about Agile/Scrum practices :)
Venue: Ramada Hotel, Bangalore , Map- http://www.ramadabang...
Date :31st July 2010, Timings: 10:00 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Please be 10 mins before the starting time.

This time our guest speakers will be :

Vibhu Srinivasan, Certified Scrum Practitioner, Managing Director of Solution IQ India, Vibhu is coaching Scrum teams for years Internationally, He has recently relocated to India for setting up their India division.Vibhu is an expert technologist with over 14 years of experience in Agile practices. As an Agile coach and Certified Scrum Practitioner, he works with customers organizations of all sizes to enhance Agility and Scrum Project Management. An expert in team development and scaling agile, Vibhu most recently established and led a team of sixty developers, mentoring and coaching throughout the entire engagement.

Jesse Fewell, Certified Scrum Trainer, Managing Director of Ripple Rock India, Jesse Fewell will be working with iSense Prowareness for the first Certified Scrum Master training which is planed to be held under the co-banner of iSense Prowareness and Ripple Rock in the second half of August.
Jesse is an innovative leader in the business of technology. In addition to speaking for Agile, Scrum, and PMI conferences, he has collected a broad array of experiences in several sectors such as National Security, Aerospace, GIS, Stock Media, Telecom, and hospitality. Recently, he founded the PMI Agile Community of Practice; PMI’s component dedicated to Agile Project Management.

Rini van Solingen , CTO at iSense Prowareness(located in Netherlands and Bangalore). Furthermore, Rini is appointed as an assistant professor at Delft University of Technology where he heads the research and education on Globally Distributed Software Engineering (department of Electronics, Mathematics and Computer Science).
Rini is an expert in industrial product-, process and performance improvement of software and systems development. Especially in contexts with (globally) distributed development teams. He has written over 100 publications and is currently finalising the English version of his management book on Scrum (The Power of Scrum) together with Jeff Sutherland and Eelco Rustenburg, which is expected to be issued early 2011.

This support from the experts is commendable.

Please find the Agenda of our meetup would be as follows:

10:00 a.m.-- 10:30 a.m. - Registration and Coffee
10:30 a.m.-- 10:45 a.m. - Scrum Bangalore- Introduction by Rahul Sah.
10:45 a.m.-- 11:45 p.m. - Session on "Scaling Scrum" by Vibhu Srinivasan
11:45 a.m.-- 12:15 p.m. - Agile Game by Vibhu Srinivasan
12:15 p.m.-- 1:15 p.m. - Lunch & Networking
1:15 p.m.-- 2:15 p.m. - Session on "Agile Contracts" by Jesse Fewell
2:15 p.m.-- 2:30 p.m. - Q&A Session with Jesse Fewell
2:30 p.m.-- 3:30 p.m. - Session on "Globally Distributed Agile Teams" by Rini van Solingen ( Session Over Skype)
3:30 p.m. - 4:00 pm - Coffee and Networking
4:00 p.m.-- 5:00 p.m. - Open House Sessions (Multiple Tracks, Please choose your topic before you come for the event, on the entrance you will have a white board where you can paste your topic and members can vote and form thier own discussion groups)
5:00 p.m.-- 5:30 p.m. - Retrospective and Planning for the Next Scrum Bangalore Meet

Looking forward to meet all the members of this group. Enthusiasts who still want to join up can RSVP themselves at the Scrum Bangalore website.

regards,
Rahul Sah ( Scrum Bangalore User Group)
Scrum Certified Practitioner
General Manager,
iSense Prowareness