Many thanks to all of those people who responded to my survey. I had around 100 responses from active ScrumMasters, so while it’s only a small sample size, I found the results very enlightening. Lots of people have been asking to see the results so here goes. I’m really interested in reader’s feedback of these too, so please add a comment at the bottom of this blog post if you have an opinion.

The proposal I submitted for the Scrum Alliance Gathering in London has been accepted! Hurray! I have submitted a session called "ScrumMaster - role or job?". This covers a topic close to my heart at present concerning the time and effort people spend "being" a ScrumMaster. This will be in a workshop format, should you decide to come you are expected to participate and contribute!

This is a social psychological phenomenon that refers to situations where individuals do not offer any assistance in an emergency situation when others are present. In fact, the probability of help is thought to be inversely proportional to the number of bystanders – so the greater the number of bystanders, the less likely they are to help.

There is nothing an English cricket fan enjoys more than seeing England win a test series. Other than winning an ashes test series against Australia. In Australia. By 3 tests to 1. For the benefit of my non-cricket loving followers, England have just completed a historic feat by beating Australia on their home turf for the first time in 24 years.

I’ll admit it – I’m addicted to watching “The Apprentice”. For any Brits who have managed to miss out for the last six series broadcast in the UK, the self-made millionaire and businessman Lord Sugar gradually trims sixteen candidates down to a single person who wins a high-paid job working for one of Lord Sugar’s many companies. This is done through a series of intense business-focused tasks that are designed to allow the candidates to either excel or crumble.