Our First CSD course in USA

This being first post of 2013, would like to wish everyone a year full of joy, good health and success in your endeavours.

Coming to the actual topic, I agree its several weeks late but this being the time of new resolutions, I decided to put it nevertheless thinking “Better Late than Never” 🙂

Under the umbrella of Ceezone, I along with Srinivas Chillara conducted our first training in USA : Certified Scrum Developer course in Oklahoma City, USA from 5th till 7th December’2012. It was quite interesting experience in many aspects for us.

.Net based course As you might be aware that CSD is a technical training with quite some hands on during the entire 3 day period. For all our courses till date, we had used Java as programming language for code samples, exercises and project work. Though the course is not about language intricacies and concepts taught are language agnostic, but still it helps more if examples and hands-on exercises are in the same language as your day-to-day work environment. We came to know that most of the people attending the course have been working on .Net back-ground, we decided to tailor our course and materials accordingly. We also included more information about relevant tools and frameworks for .NET development environment. It took us some effort but based on the feedback we received, I think it was well worth it. Another positive side-effect is now-onwards we can easily conduct complete .NET or Java based courses and also let participants choose their preferred language while doing the coding exercises.

New Partnerships For offering the course, we partnered with two organisations : Platinum Edge and Raman Tech. Both of them are helping large number of organisations reap maximum benefits of Agile methodologies through Consulting, Coaching and training services. After having interacted and worked with people from both these organisations, I have a great amount of respect for quality of their work. In case you are looking for coaching, consulting or training your development or management teams, I would seriously suggest to get in touch with them for more detailed interactions.

Visiting Oklahoma Last but not the least, we got to see a little bit of Oklahoma city as well. Though our schedules were a bit tight, but it was really nice spending few days in the city and interacting with all the participants of the course. Attached are few pictures I took during the course. Looking forward to many more of these assignments in USA.

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