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Welcome back to a new year at www.implementingscrum.com. Thank you for sticking with Tony and I and continuing to read and respond to the blogs on this site.

I sincerely appreciate it.

And please feel free to help me pass on the word about this site to your friends and co-workers around the world who may be interested in the new — and existing — rich content on this site about Scrum and how I see things when working with clients around the world and training new ScrumMasters for their roles.

Today I am going to start with an introduction of a new character for our site. All of the other characters are introduced in more detail here.

His name is Scott Ambler and he has been one of my personal mentors for many years. We co-wrote a book a few years ago and have traveled to some pretty cool places on the globe over the years. In addition to Scott being a friend and mentor, he has also published about 20 books (either as author or co-author) and now, as he likes to say, “IBM joined me.” He now works for IBM as an Agile Practice Lead (pretty cool job I think) and we still keep in touch.

His profile can be found at www.ambysoft.com/scottAmbler.html.

So why have I included him as a character on this site?

He knows a lot about various different agile methodologies. In fact, he is the leader in the industry on a lot of them (because like Ken Schwaber, Scott Ambler has helped get the word out about different agile software development methods).

And.

He is a bit on the controversial side. For instance, he is not a big fan of the current certification model that I (and others) teach; this should add some good content for the cartoons (smile).

Sorta like I approach things in life.

Coincidence?

Hmmm.

So, starting tomorrow you will get an introduction to the character that is Scott Ambler in the first official cartoon for 2008 on implementingscrum.com.

This should be another fun year.

Hang on for the ride.

Get involved.

And help us all learn more about Scrum and other agile methodologies.

And remember, like the other characters, what Tony and I say in the cartoons use purely artistic license and may not reflect their real world views or opinions.

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