I'm proud to announce that I have finished my formal Scrum Master training and I'm now a full pledged Scrum Master. Its a big deal for me since being in the job of helping other integrate agile practices into their development process, the training really helped me sort things out and put them in the right prospective.
Here are some pictures from the training session.
Sometimes in life you join a discussion expecting the least, but surprisingly enough profound wisdom can be found in the least expected places.
In a five minutes talk I heard a very wise man give a very good analysis of what is capability.
It translate to something like this:
Capability of a person is a combination of two elements
- The "body", which dictates the true ability/talent of the person.
- The "spirit", which dictates the will of the person.
Taken to our domain, a developer capability will be a combination of the his technical knowledge(talent) and his motivation (will). When I want to increase a developer capabilities, I can either try to help him increase his technical know how, or try to help him on his motivation side. For best effect I try them both.
Some coaches I have encountered are making the mistake to assume that will on its own is enough (did someone mentioned "The Secret"?). I'm sorry, but no matter how much I shall "will" it, I CANT write code with absolutely no bugs. Maybe its because they lack the capability to increase true ability in a person?
12/01/2008
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