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Jens Broos the Boy Scout route to Scrum Mastership

What can we learn from the Boy Scouts about being a Scrum Master? Jens, who spent a long time with the Boy Scouts as a child shares what he learned from those years that he applies today in his role as a Scrum Master.

In this episode we refer to a good resource for remote/distributed Retrospectives: Groupmap.com.

About Jens Broos

Since 2011 Jens Broos helps building successful projects for customers of Mayflower in Munich. Studying computer and media science and being a boy scout for many years helps him understand the technical, organizational and social challenges of agile software development. As an Agile Coach he is guiding co-located and distributed teams to set up agile processes, building trust and self-organising. His passion is to bring people together to enable collaboration.

You can link with Jens Broos on LinkedIn and connect with Jens Broos on Twitter.

Jiri Sitina on how critical the Product Owner role really is

The Product Owner role can enable to make the work of the team very difficult. In this episode Jiri talks about how important the Product Owner role really is and how to help teams align. We also talk about aligning remote teams discussing some of the techniques that Jiri uses to have remote teams collaborate effectively.

About Jiri Sitina

Jiri works at GoodData. He is currently based in Prague and helps GoodData’s engineering teams to work better, cooperate more, keep on improving and enjoy what they are doing.
You can connect with Jiri Sitina on LinkedIn and link with Jiri Sitina on Twitter.

Mario Lucero tackles recruiting with a demanding offshore development client

Recruiting is not easy, but when you are recruiting for an offshore team you face even more problems. How to select the right candidate? The role of language in the relationship with the client, and how to handle multiple cultures are also topics in this episode. Teams face cultural barriers, and remote stakeholders. In this offshore context recruiting is not easy.

About Mario Lucero

Mario Lucero is an Agile evangelist who wants to help people adopting agile (Kanban or Scrum). He’s worked with Agile since 2010 in a distributed software development environment.You can find Mario Lucero on Twitter. Mario Lucero in LinkedIn. Mario also writes a blog at: mariolucero.cl.