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Reported by Peter Mello in Brazil

UNICAMP, one of the largest State Universities in Brazil, was home to an event regarding Project Management and the use of Agile Development Techniques with the iterative process SCRUM.

The main presentation was given by Juan Esteban Bernabó - Agile Practice Leader from Teamware/Brazil.

Contacts can be made to eventos@dextra-sw.com and the meeting was held on June 20th. The entry fee to the event was the donation of food that will later be distributed to a non-profit organization that helps fighting against cancer (http://www.apacc-sp.org.br).

Scrum is an iterative incremental process of software development commonly used with Agile software development. Although Scrum was intended to be for management of software development projects, it can be used in running software maintenance teams, or as a program management approach.

Scrum is a process skeleton that includes a set of practices and predefined roles. The main roles in scrum are the ScrumMaster who maintains the processes and works similar to a project manager, the Product Owner who represents the stakeholders, and the Team which includes the developers.

More information can be found at:
http://under-linux.org/8585-scrum-metodologia-agil-para-projetos-de-software.html (Portuguse)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrum_(development) (English)

Peter Mello, SpS, PMP International Correspondent - Brazil Based in São Paulo State Peter Mello, SpS, PMP is an International Correspondent for PMForum in Brasil. He is the Chief Information Officer (CIO) and a Senior Consultant for X25 Treinamento e Consultoria (X25), based in Brasilia, Brazil. He provides project management training and consulting services to governmental and industrial organizations in Brazil. Peter presently works with a portfolio of projects in the Petroleum & Gas industry. His professional experience also includes project and risk management for large projects in the IT Industry and Government, and scheduling optimization using critical chain and Success Driven Project Management concepts. More information about Peter can be seen at http://www.pmforum.org/pm%20forum%20team/index.htm. He can be contacted at peter.mello@x25.com.br.