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The second edition of the ConFoo Conference takes place in Montreal from March 9 to 11, 2011. iWeb is pleased to have been invited to give a presentation. The topic submitted by Bruno Morel, our software development director, was selected and he will be part of the experts invited to present solutions for developers, project leaders and managers.

The theme of his presentation, “The role of the manager in the Scrum Team” will address among other topics, change management, personal growth, management of human beings beyond metrics, weaknesses and pitfalls of Scrum that the Agile manager must avoid.

The presentation will be given in French. Here’s the summary: “To become more agile, more and more companies are trying to adopt the Scrum methodology. The Scrum Master, the team, the product owner roles are a formal and documented process. By building a team of independent and autonomous individuals, the Scrum ‘pack’ by definition excludes the manager. In the literature, he is considered a ‘chicken’, his role being often interpreted as passive and often caricatured (“buy pizza and get out of the way”). How much space in Scrum exists for a team manager? What is the role of the coordinator, the team leader, the director, and even sometimes the VP / CTO / COO in the context of the Agile project process? ”

To discuss these concepts, Bruno invites you all to attend his presentation on Friday, March 11 at 9:40. The more the merrier!

A delegation of our developers will also attend Confoo and participate in the various presentations. They will mix with the community and they will be glad to answer your questions about their work as a developer and about iWeb in general.

So if you see us, do come and meet us.

Bruno Morel participated in an interview following his presentation (in french):

The presentation itself will be rebroadcast on our blog in the coming days.