CSM (Certified Scrum Master) Experience

Hi Everybody,

Recently I have completed CSM (Certified Scrum Master) certification. Overall, it is a fabulous experience

Organization:      Simplilearn

Trainer:                 Satisha Venkataramaiah

Venue:                   Hyatt Bangalore, M.G. Road, Bangalore - 560008, India

Dates:                    Nov 9-10, 2013

Timings:                8:30 AM to 5:30 PM

 As soon as I remember the boot camp, first thing It reminds me is our trainer Satisha’s words

“People are inherently GOOD, Talk to them”

He is kind of a trainer who sticks to things he committed, excellent command on agile methodologies, well disciplined, Listens to all questions and answers to them patiently, respects other’s time, good organizer (the way he organized whole scrum workshop was like a mini Scrum project which delivered many delighters to the CSM aspirants) and an Excellent presenter (Trust me, in a batch of 30 CSM aspirants in this workshop, he made everybody to be part of one or other discussion while explaining about SCRUM). It’s been more than a month I completed this workshop and certification but still I feel his effect on my daily discussions. I think my English knowledge is not sufficient to convert my experience in to words here, thus will end about Satisha with one quote

"The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires." 
- William Arthur Ward

He inspired me and some of my friends in the workshop to the extent that we have taken process very seriously as a career option. You might see me as a Trainer/Coach in future…

Satisha, would like to use this platform to thank you for everything you did in CSM workshop. Thanks a lot…

I would strongly recommend Satisha’s CSM workshop if you are thinking to learn about Scrum. Please go through below links to get connected to Satisha Venkataramaiah.

http://www.playscrum.com/

http://www.scrumalliance.org/community/profile/svenkatara3

Completed my certification and I am a Certified Scrum Master now. Would like to end with providing some useful links for CSM aspirants

Videos about Scrum:

http://scrumtrainingseries.com/

Some Books and papers about Scrum:

http://www.playscrum.com/resource/

Roots of Scrum:

http://scrum.jeffsutherland.com/2011/10/takeuchi-and-nonaka-roots-of-scrum.html

Please feel free to mail me if you need anything related to process. I can definitely help you with in my horizon. All the best and Thank you for being with me

- Balaji Sathram

About Me

My name is Balaji Sathram, have completed M.Sc. in Biotechnology & Bioinformatics (2006), and currently working as Test Engineer at Technology Pipeline Solutions (TPS), Monsanto Holdings Pvt Ltd, Bangalore. Job is to ensure quality of scientific software used for breeding & lab activities. Prior to this I have worked in below places

From -- To	Designation	Company
June 2011 to till date	Test Engineer	TPS, Monsanto holdings Pvt Ltd
Mar2011 to May 2011	Senior Research Fellow	Avesthagen Limited
June2008 to Feb2011	Research fellow	Reliance  Pvt Ltd
July2007 to May2008	Junior Research Fellow	Jawaharlal Nehru University
Oct2006 to June2007	Trainee Executive	Mahyco Ltd

Accomplishments:

• University Second rank in Post-Graduation

Publications:

• Yeast functional screen to identify genetic determinants capable of conferring abiotic stress tolerance in Jatropha curcas L .Nalini Eswaran, Sriram Parameswaran, Balaji Sathram, Bhagyam Anantharaman, Raja Krishna Kumar, Sudhakar Johnson Tangirala. BMC Biotechnology 2010, 10:23
• Generation of expressed sequence tag (EST) library from salt stressed roots of Jatropha curcas for the identification of abiotic stress responsive genes. Nalini Eswaran, Sriram Parameswaran, Bhagyam Anantharaman, Raja Krishna Kumar, Balaji Sathram, Sudhakar Johnson Tangirala. Plant Biology , 14 (2012), pp. 428–437

Patents:

• Identification of genes related to abiotic Stress tolerance in Jatropha curcas. Nalini.E, Sriram.P, Balaji.S, Bhagyam.A, Johnson, T. S. (Application number: 2650/MUM/2008)
• Nucleic acids of Jatropha curcas and its applications. Nalini.E, Sriram.P, Balaji Sathram, Bhagyam.A, Johnson, T.S.(Application number: 389/MUM/2009)

Surprisingly, Exposure to core Information Technology domain in the past years made me to think about the process and how it benefits in Team Culture (I feel this is the best thing happens with Agile transformation), faster delivery and customer satisfaction if you tweak it in right way. Thus started to explore about process, completed CSM (Certified Scrum Master) as an initial step. Planning for PMI-ACP, CSP in near future

Main objective behind starting this blog is to connect with people who are interested in Agile way & to share information with Agile world.

I will be posting all useful information related to PMI-ACP prep which I come across in my preparation. So, keep watching this blog. All the very best

- Balaji Sathram