1st

This past weekend I delivered a Scrum training course to unemployed people in Detroit. The name if this course was “Hard Times ScrumMaster Detroit”. This course has given rise to a concept we are calling HTU “Hard Times University”

HTU’s purpose is to deliver high quality, low cost, open source knowledge, current training, in a community driven way. It has clear to me that large parts of our educational system are simply holding our learning hostage by high price, huge loans and organizational patterns that create barriers to doing it any other way. The people in this course were amazing and the energy to drastically reduce these barriers is there. Expect to hear much more on “Hard Times University” in the upcoming weeks.

2nd

It looks like we have a couple of publishers interested in our book “Advanced Topi cs in Scrum“. Chapter 4 is ready to read and waiting for anyone who wishes to comment on it. Find it here CHAPTER 4