Are You the Best Scrummer in Brazil?

Drive your knowledge of Scrum to new depth at a unique one day deep-dive Scrum spike. Led by Ken Schwaber, the best Scrummers in Brazil and South America will work together to drive their knowledge to new depths. Covering such topics as emergent architecture, “done,” technical debt, total cost of ownership, agile development practices, and “Scrum but.”

Only the best in Brazil and South America are invited.  After participating, they will be listed publicly as having achieved such distinction.

Qualification: To attend, you must achieve one of the top 150 scores in a Scrum knowledge assessment. The assessment will be held until July 10, 2010, and will be based on the Scrum body of knowledge. The people showing the top knowledge will be invited at no charge to the all-day Scrum Spike at Microsoft Brazil in Sao Paulo on Saturday, July 24.

Logistics: You must register for the Scrum Spike assessment at ScrumSpike. There is a $20 fee to take the assessment. You may register as many times as you wish.  Upon registering, you will be sent a password, and can directly take the assessment using the password, start here. Until July 10, the top 150 scorers will be posted publicly. The final top 150 will receive invitations.

Preparation: If you want to prepare for the Scrum Spike assessment, read the Scrum Guide (www.scrum.org/scrumguides) and take the free open Scrum assessment, www.scrum.org/scrumopen/

Note: This assessment and the Scrum Spike are in English. However, a Portuguese edition of the Scrum Guide is available at scrum.org.

Sponsored by Scrum.org