SMART Objectives and Scrum Training at Torchbox

Last Thursday I took the train to Charlbury and spent the day talking about SMART objectives and Scrum with the project managers and account directors at Torchbox, a 25-or-so person conscious business specialising in the design and development of websites and Internet software for socially and environmentally progressive organisations. They've built a few Drupal sites in the last little while as well and are extremely lovely people to boot!

Thanks for having me, Torchbox — I had a fantastic time meeting and speaking with you and hope to see you all again soon! Hopefully tomorrow at the second installment of Drupal for NGOs ;-)

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ScrumMaster Certification with Nigel Baker

I almost forgot to mention — I'm now a Certified ScrumMaster! I took the 2 day training course with Nigel Baker of AgileBear 2 weeks ago and am a changed man ;-)

You don't need ScrumMaster Certification to manage projects with Scrum (IMHO), but if you're using Scrum with a team that hasn't used Scrum before, I highly recommend bringing in a professional trainer to take the team through an overview of the framework at the outset of the project — we brought Nigel in to train the entire Concern web team last month and it was money and time well spent :)

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Drupal for NGOs - July 2008

Alright! The next meeting of Drupal for NGOs will be held at the Greenpeace UK offices in Islington 19 days from today!

Check out the Drupal for NGOs group Robert Castelo set up for us on the Drupal UK site, create an account if you haven't already and comment on the event page so we know how many people to expect (last month we had more than 50 and it was awesome).

Presentations for this month are TBD — watch the event page for more details as things come together :)

UPDATE: Owen Pringle of Amnesty International and Ben Steele, Ben Alexander and Martin Gill of Comic Relief will present!

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