What an incredible day of breakthroughs

• PMI CEO Greg Balestrero gave a keynote address with some memorable quotes: “We’re here because we respect the Scrum Alliance”…”the mission here is collaboration, we can’t afford barriers”…”It’s all about results quicker, faster, with high quality”.
  

  PMI's keynote

• More than just making a statement, Greg and his COO Mark Langley stayed for a full hour afterwards chatting with skeptics, and getting a real discussion going about the nature of management.
  
  

  Agile skeptics brainstorming with PMI CEO Greg Ballestrero

• IT&Telecom SIG’s Past Chair Dave Prior gave a talk about “Scrum in the Waterfall”. He explained how a project can benefit from 2 ScrumMaster roles. One to coach the team, and one to serve management’s need for charts and metrics. The name for these two roles? The Project Manager and the Team Lead.
• After the reception, Mike Cottmeyer and I landed at a cafe table with Alistair Cockburn. Alistair weaved us through an intellectual conversation that yielded many thoughts I will be digesting for a long time.

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