Palestine Scrum User Group first meeting

Two weeks ago Palestine Scrum user group aka PalDev had its first meeting on 14/12/ 2010. Last September PalDev was been registered as an official Scrum User Group, and in that same month PalDev set a Certified Scrum Master training for 28 person, in collaboration with Jim Coplien and Scrum Alliance.

It was more like a social meeting rather than a technical one, and we chose a calm, lovely and nice restaurant “Diamonds Restaurant” at Ramallah’s center. More than 20 CSMs attended, and we did some guests who was curious to know more about us. For this meeting it was limited one since it was targeting the people who attended the course last September. PalDev will hold open Scrum meetings and activities in the future, finally that’s what PalDev all about, a community based organization which is open for anybody interested.

The meeting was brief .. I did a small speech introducing the goal and the meeting agenda. Then our main speaker Salem Awadallah – Service Delivery Director from Asal- talked about their experience applying Scrum in Asal – a software and outsourcing house in Ramallah- within different teams who works for different clients using various technologies.

Finally, we gave each CSM a copy of Jim Coplien’s new book “Lean Software Architecture”. The audience where so happy and excited and instantly some of them suggested to have a debate in the next meeting to discuss the book content.

Wooof!