Last April, we ran the first Certified Scrum Master extended course (3-day) in Belgrade. We had a small chat with our Certified Scrum Trainer, Petri Heiramo, who actually was the initiator to run this 3-day Certified Scrum Master course. We talked about the feedback of the participants, about the gains, and about the challenges faced before the course. Read the words of our world renowned expert, and see yourself the benefits of this course.

TomTom was our silver sponsor at the 3rd Agile Serbia Conference. On the EXE stage they introduced you with the workshop “Ensuring the biggest bang for buck”. Our friends from TomTom sent us a great blog post by Ana Pegan.

The Coaching Corner will come to Agile Serbia Conference for the second time. Coaching Corner is a place for short conversations around Agile topic(s) of your choice. Many local and international coaches can be found there throughout the day. The Corner opens after the first keynote and closes at 16:00.

Olaf Lewitz started his job career as a software developer. Over the years he become a coach. In Serbian Agile & IT community we know him as a coach at the Certified Agile Leadership Course. According to Olaf, we need more leadership, not more leaders. Leadership is an activity, not a position, and everyone is a leader!

We are so proud to announce that for the third time in the row, the Scrum Alliance is the Special Sponsor of the Agile Serbia Conference! Attendance at the conference can provide you with up to 8 SEUs.

Effective communication is the key for software requirements, and a User Story is the common language to build understanding between user and development team. A User Story shifts the focus from writing requirements to talking about requirements. Essence of a User Story is to discuss the User Story with the user. A User Story tells a story, it describes how a customer/user employs a product in a simple language.

We are proud to say that the Endava is our gold sponsor at the 3rd Agile Serbia Conference. On the DEV stage they will introduce you with the speech “Six Agile Campfire Stories”. Also, they sent us a great blog post by George Anghelache.

A lot of people struggle with Agile Retrospectives and some even start to skip them. One of the causes of bad retrospectives is a missing purpose. Another mistake is that the team wants to execute more experiments than they are able to. In this blog post, Marc will give you some ideas on how to improve your Agile Retrospectives, and make them awesome again.

We are proud to say that the Quantox Technology is our silver sponsor at the 3rd Agile Serbia Conference. On the EXE stage they will introduce you with the workshop “Creating IoT device for your Scrum meetings”. Our friends from Quantox sent us a great blog post by Attila Pravda based on the importance of front-end development.

New Year’s resolutions have always been sort of a conflict for me. From one perspective it is good to plan ahead and work toward your goals, but from another, I am making a decision of setting a goal for a whole year in the beginning when I have the least info about the year. So this is obviously a sort of a mixed feeling dilemma.