Marcio Marinho

Definitely that was the best course I ever attended !

See the photos here.

I guess I lost my fear about to flight

As you may know I am a Senior Software Engineer that is passionated about software and technology, and I’ve been studying agile practices for while, XP, Lean, an SCRUM in special.

Last weekend I attended to a Scrum Master Training in São Paulo ( I am the first guy of the right side ) :

Indeed that was one of the greatest experiences I ever had in my life. There I could learn more about what exactly is scrum and how to do scrum. It’s funny how we can mis concept things, or do the right thing on the wrong way.

The course was great, and I don’t have words to thank Boris, Peter and Danilo about the teachings and experiences shared with us. I am deep happy because I could improve myself a lot there, learning how setup a scrum team, plan, prioritize, estimate, rules, deliver as fast as possible ( with quality ! ), measure the teams productivity, run retrospectives, auto organization and so on. Besides that I had a great time with my classmates, that are clever and skills full people, and they help me a lot also with their questions and experiences.

It’s really a mindset shift ! We were driven to think on a different way that we are used to think.
There we saw how scrum run things better than the traditional project management way, and we realize why scrum is much more superior than the old fashioned traditional software development, that is chaotic by nature.

Another point is that I have no words to describe how good trainer Boris is, because he could answer all my questions about how scrum can solve the issues related to software development, such as fixed price/time contracts, big projects, measurement, estimative, planning and more. Peter has also contributed a lot with his experience as a scrum coach, and Danilo’s presentation about how they implemented scrum at globo.com was priceless !

Many thanks to all of you people, and I hope we can meet again soon !!!!

I don’t really know who started it, that cariocas and paulistas are nasty ( well, at least I ever heard that each side hates the other party ), because they are the way they are. Btw, I am a carioca and I always heard from people here that paulistas don’t like cariocas, that paulistas are unpolite, that paulistas are… blah blah blah.

My opinion about this is : This is not true !

I was there in Sao Paulo for the first time last weekend ( May 30-31 / 2008 ), because I attended to a Scrum Master trainning ( that I will be posting about soon ), and everybody was very nice and kind to me. The people from the airport, the taxi drivers, the hotel staff ( these people are really great ! ), the restaurant people that I had dinner, my classmates ( awsome people ! ) , and so on.

Of course I had an incindent in the airport, and the story was that I forgot my perfume at home and I had to by a new one, everything was fine and I was going to pay, then suddenly a lady pushed me when I was about to pay. What can I say ? all paulistas are evil because an unpolite woman pushed me ? of course not ! I cannot blame 8.000.000 people just because of 1 !!!! Better question : how many people in rio have pushed me in queues ? hhhhmmmm one zilion maybe …. heheheeheh

I am not saying that there are no bad people anymore neither in Sao Paulo nor in Rio, of course there are, but the underlying point is that we can’t make pre-assumptions without knowing the reality.

I simply loved all people there and that part of the city is aewsome, and I want to go there again as soon as possible.

The funniest thing was that even speaking in portuguese everybody asked me the same question : Where are u from?, well, I discovered that I don’t have a strong carioca’s accent, and Rosangela confirmed that saying that I am almost a paulista [:-)]