Here are a few pictures from my 2 day Zen of Agile Management class in Sao Paulo this week. I'd like to thank Adail Muniz Retamal of Heptagon for organizing the event and hosting me in Sao Paulo. The class was a huge success and I hope to be back in 2009 teaching it again and expanding the offering to include Agile+CMMI and FDD+Color Modeling. If you are interested in attending these classes in Brazil please get in touch or contact Adail directly.

Explaining advanced iteration estimation and planning by showing how to incorporate the velocity of the bottleneck, and its spread of variation, the anticipated waste as transaction and coordination costs against the iteration, and insuring against external (special cause) variations by buffering the schedule. This technique for estimating is both quick, as it's based on historical data, and compatible with high levels of organizational maturity that require predictable (low variability) and quantitative management. It's good all this material was included as the participants included folks from CMMI level 5 organizations.

The class breaks out into four teams for the exercises. Here they are trying to imagine how to destroy trust in an organization. ;-) We do this exercise to help them reflect on angti-patterns that exist in our organizations. Not so that they go home and implement it. :-D

And after a long tiring 2 days, it's 6.30pm on Wednesday and time to celebrate and decant to a local hostelry for some chopp and pastel.

I'd like to thank everyone for coming. I really enjoy teaching this class and you it wouldn't be the same without each and every one of you. Technorati tag: David+Anderson, agile+management, agile+CMMI, agile+brasil, Adail+Retamal, Heptagon, agile+Sao+Paulo