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3 February event - Scrum at Allan Gray

On the rather swampy night of 3 Feb, a capacity crowd squeezed into our sponsor DVT's offices to hang on every word from our speakers.  It was a fascinating insight into a company that is now three years into their Scrum journey. For those who were somewhat new to Scrum hearing this story and what the keys to success were was an invaluable experience.

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Feedback on Coaching Circles

In October we held an event to talk about how to grow agile coaches in South Africa. One of the outcomes of that session was a coaching circle that started with 8 enthusiastic agilists keen to grow their skills. From the retrospective we held it seems that learning and fun was had by all, and so I am delighted to let you know that we will be continuing and growing the circle in 2011.

Our plan is a classic scrum scaling pattern, we will add more people and split into 2 circles :)

So if you missed joining the first coaching circle this year, make sure to save the date of 10 Jan 2011 for the start of the next circles. To find out more details about coaching circles and the ones kicking off next year you will need to join the following google group: agile-coaching-za

Why sponsor SUGSA?

Alacrity

Alacrity is proud to sponsor our November event in Cape Town. Alacrity have said their reason for sponsoring is: "We are passionate about the information technology sector in South Africa, one of our brand values is knowledge building and sharing.  Our sponsorship involvement with the knowledge communities is driven by this value.  Through participation and sponsorship we hope to make a difference in the broader sphere of knowledge and skills development of our sector."

SUGSA have several sponsorship opportunities available for both the Cape Town and Johannesburg chapter. If, like Alacrity, your company wants to make a difference, contact the committe on sugsa-com [at] googlegroups [dot] com to find out more about sponsorship.

www.alacrity.co.za