Tomonori Sano

Tomonori Sano is a Scrum Master working in telecom industry.

I'm actively working to share Scrum values first among engineers and then among managers.
I want to have our engineers have hands-on approach of Scrum and remember the fun of development.

When I met Scrum?
I was in an airline company that was so water-fall.
When I found an article of Scrum implemented in a Japanese company, it seems to be a better approach compared to the traditional approach used throughout the company.
Also, Scrum just sounded right for me since I'd been a rugby player.

Cope' CSM training changed my view of management. The management in waterfall process and that in agile way are so different each other. It is not about task, resource, schedule management, but it is all about value-creation by a team of people. That changed my way of life in software development.

After I got certified as a CSM, I started joining agile communities of practice, learning TPS/Lean, and also organization development process.

There's one thing I don't really like Scrum.
In rugby, only front-line people join Scrum. A self-organizing swarming of whole team members is called Maul in rugby. Maul is a better name.