Scrum Alliance -Profile: Tobias Mayer

Tobias Mayer

I became a Certified Scrum Trainer in May 2005 —one of the first 20 CSTs— and have been a facilitator/coach of teams and individuals since 1990. I continue to run the occaisional CSM training and do some local consulting work but on the 1st January 2010 I took on the role of Creative Director with the Scrum Alliance, which now takes up the majority of my work time.

Creative Director Job Description

The Creative Director is a new role in the Scrum Alliance. The person filling this role will be responsible for the creative direction of the Scrum Alliance. Creativity does not come from the few, but from the many, so a key part of this job will be to reach out to individuals and groups in the Scrum and wider Agile communities, to collect ideas and synthesize them for the benefit of the members of the Scrum Alliance in the form of gatherings, workshops and other live events, videos and written work. A second, and equally important part of the role will be to coordinate the efforts of the Improvement Communities, to ensure clear goals are set, progress is visible and results are socialized to the community. The Creative Director will also initiate and coordinate special programs within the Scrum Alliance, such as the new Scholarship program for those in financial difficulty and a mentoring program for CST applicants. This role is currently 75% full time.

In the capacity of Creative Director I will be travelling a lot to different parts of the world, and available to talk or run workshops at user group meetings or other community-focused gatherings. You can check my calendar to see where I'll be at any given time.

Find me — http://bit.ly/wherestobias

Talk to me — cell: 650-796-0325, Skype: tobyanon

Read me — http://agileanarchy.wordpress.com

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Upcoming Courses by Tobias

Course Title	Date Range	City
WelfareCSM	22-23 Mar 2010	Palo Alto

Recent Comments by Tobias

On Am I, or Am I Not, Using Scrum? That is the Question.: I'm not sure we should get hung up on whether a team is doing "pure Scrum". Scrum, as with any Agile methodology needs to be context-sensitive. Personally, I am opposed to thirty-day iterations in almost any context, preferring one-week or two-w...
On Keep Your Team Seeing RED: Nice article; very clear. I don't agree with this statement though: > These points are an indication of how long each story will take. One story point might be eight developer hours or two developer hours... I do not believe a story point repre...
On Daily Standup Withdrawal in Scrum Teams: Good article, Stacia. I especially liked your very concrete examples of how team members can offer useful updates at the meeting. Nicely done. I disagree with you on the stand-up/sit-down issue though. I have never been able to run a success...
On "Four"warned Is Forearmed: Hi Mitch. Good stuff. I have long used a variant of your fourth question, but it is asked at the end of the standup to the whole team and everyone answers it at the same time by using a thumb vote -- thumb up means absolute confidence, thumb down...
On Unlearn What You Have Learned: Very good list. I appreciate your ability to present these ideas in simple and clear terms. Yes getting into the Scrum mindset is absolutely about unlearning. Like Lao Tzu said, oh-so-many years ago... "To gain knowledge add something every day...
On Scrum and the Recession: Good article, but you are rather preaching to the converted. Consider other places to publish this where you might reach new ears. Good luck with the message!
On Why Don't I Floss My Teeth?: Michael, this is an insightful appraisal of the Scrum adoption situation. Knowing what to do, and doing it, are often worlds apart. I am particularly interested in the Weight Watchers analogy. I have often thought that those transitioning to Scru...

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