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Juan Banda is a Project Manager with 10 years of experience in management and now working in the outsourcing division of a 300-employees-company that makes monitoring solutions for Fortune 100 companies. Before rejoining industry, Juan had a distinguished carrier in academia where he was Head of an Engineering Department. Juan is also an ex Fulbright grantee and member of the Agile Alliance.

Juan has been a champion for Scrum adoption in his organization as he's been using Scrum with great success in development, automation and quality assurance projects. For the last three years, he’s been managing several projects that deal with remote teams and complex technologies. Juan has been also divulging Scrum, XP, and Lean values and principles inside and outside his organization, and also mentoring clients in good practices and Scrum adoption. He's also been a visiting lecturer in local universities where he taught Scrum to undergrad students.

Juan has also a long history of work and research about SLDC, OMT, RUP, UML, Lean, Agile and XP. However, not until he discovered Scrum, that he realized that this might the right approach for doing things right.

Juan also created the Scrum Bolivia Yahoo! User Group that is the first and only discussion group for Bolivian Scrum practitioners.

Public profile

http://www.linkedin.com/in/juanbanda

Recent Comments by Juan

On 9 Tips for Creating a Good Sprint Backlog: I do believe that having good estimates would be be very valuable, but at the same time we should not forget that Scrum is and adaptive and not a predictive technique. Thousands of good and bad books have been written about how to make good es...
On Top Ten Organizational Impediments: From my perspective point 2 could be extended to something like "Assuming Agile Is All About Developers and Quality Engineers" or even better use a generalization of the concept to something like "Assuming Agile Is All About Technical Staff". Th...
On The Daily Meeting Trap: I don't agree with the statement that the Scrum meeting will actually tell me how the Sprint is going, like in every meeting, Scrum meetings are subjective and their main value it's that they help building bridges to connect people. As long as we ...
On Unlearn What You Have Learned: Habit One won't be that ease to break if you work with distributed teams, if for instance teams are in different cities or countries you will have no choice but to create email threads. And alternative that work very well for me was using Sharepoi...
On Scrum and the Recession: The article is well written but I tend to agree with Tobias' comments, you should also try to make this article to non-converted to Scrum audiences.
On 9 Tips for Creating a Good Sprint Backlog: I'm not saying that you shouldn't estimate tasks at all, that too me it's a little bit to extreme. What I'm saying is that not too much time should be wasted in trying to having detailed estimations, just have some gut feeling estimates in place a...

At a Glance

Juan Banda

Project Manager Jalasoft Inc.

Certified:	CSM, CSPO, CSP
Location:	Cochabamba, Bolivia

Profile: Juan Banda