This Saturday, July 17th, Tech Propulsion Labs CTO Dan Shupp will lead an open discussion for everyone in Saigon interested in Agile Software Development and the Scrum process: “How to be a great Scrum Master.”

The event assumes that you have some basic knowledge of Scrum. It will focus specifically on

• the Scrum Master role
• how and why it’s different from traditional project management,
• some case studiesof good and bad Scrum Master Responses
• Q&A

Anyone running Agile teams, working in a startup, or thinking about either of those is encouraged to join.

The event will be held upstairs at 1pm at the Highlands Coffee on Nguyen Du Street, Q1. No registration is necessary, but seats are limited.

Slides for the session are available here

We’re proud to announce that our first collaboration with faberNovel, a French “Innovation Consultancy” has gone live on the iPhone app store

The app displays realtime traffic status overlayed on google maps for roads on and near the A86 motorway near Paris. We wound up doing some nifty image processin, mapping, and geolocation mixed together on the same screen, backed by a set of web services. Try it out – especially if you speak French and live in the western Paris metro area :)

Saigon Mobile DevCamp

After a few months of prep work , the team for Saigon Mobile DevCamp has gone public with the event! The DevCamp will be a barcamp style event, with a lot of pros and amateurs from the Vietnamese Development community contributing workshops and leading a group of 100 devs through a weekend long coding competition, with prizes.

So, after much buildup, Webcamp Saigon 1 was a success!

This past Saturday, 25 designers and developers got together at the Tech Propulsion Labs Tân Bình office to hear talks from top-notch Vietnamese designers:

• Min Trần – @mintran (Frexy Studios and Icon Eden) – Writing beautiful HTML
• Lê Tùng Lâm – @letunglam (HR2B) – SEO for Web Designers
• Đức Ban – @ducban (ASALEO J.S.C.) – From Typography To CSS Framework

The later part of the day was spent sharing experiences: Min Trần led a discussion of being a freelance Web Designer, while Tech Propulsion Labs CTO Dan Shupp @dshupp – finished the day with a session on working with and closing foreign clients.

So, where to now?

Nguyễn Anh Hùng (@anhhung), a Tech Propulsion Labs Project Manager, concluded the event by mapping out the future of Webcamp Saigon. The day’s attendees decided:

• Webcamp Saigon will have a dedicated Website for the community. The main focus of the Website is to reach out to more people, especially those who’re working with Web technologies. Founding members, those who attended the first event, will contribute articles to our blog, and we’re ambitious enough to build it into a top resource for Vietnamese Web Heads.
• As Barcamp Saigon 2 is nearing (preparations are underway), we ‘d like to hold the next Webcamp Saigon two or three months after that. Our goal is to have as many offline events as possible because we know face-to-face communication always works better :-)
• The next event will discuss not only Web Design topics but also Web Development. TPL is already on the hook to contribute sessions on working through Design and Development simultaneously using Agile Software practices, as well as implementing design using Javascript frameworks and Ruby on Rails.

So, we’re obviously looking forward to seeing the Vietnamese Web Design & Dev community grow: we’re really looking forward to the next Barcamp Saigon, Webcamp Saigon 2, and other events in the works. We welcome all new participants, too: for now, please join our mailing list on Google, or the Facebook Group. You can also keep up to date with future Webcamp Saigon discussions on twitter and elsewhere with hashtag #webcampsaigon