Teaching and learning in Kyrgyzstan

Have you ever heard of Kyrgyzstan? Two years ago I had no idea where exactly this country was. And this year it was already the second time I traveled to this amazing country in Central Asia.
Everything started when Gerrit Beine asked me to join him giving a workshop about agile software development in Bischkek (here some impressions from 2012).
This year I was offered the possibility to teach, inspire and learn again in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. This time Michel Löhr joined in as the main coach for the agile workshop at KSUCTA University. And it was amazing this time I was already used to the not so good things like infrastructure or air pollution (which has improved in a good way over the last two years) and then on the other side I saw all this beauty!
The nature is stunning and looking to those massive mountains just outside of Bishkek is amazing. Hiking in those mountains was even more rewarding and then you had the people of Kyrgyzstan: Awesome! So friendly, hospitable, open minded and curious people it was a wonderful experience. Every day at least two students took care of us by doing activities to explore nature, culture, people or food. Thank you all for making this possible.
The 5 days agile software development workshop was a lot of fun where we taught the basics of Scrum. With a lot of games and interactive exercises so that the students could experience the agile culture first hand and learn to work and improve as a team and excel with each iteration.
I’m already looking forward to inspire, teach and learn more in this wonderful country called Kyrgyzstan in the next years.
- Our stand at the fair
- Our favorite restaurant with our favorite waiter (he did not speak english and we no russian but sign language and pictures are going a long way 🙂
- Thank you for showing me around
- Company fair
- OK this is an interesting menu 10kg lamb (!!!)
- Test driven development exercise
- Delicous pizza I could have eaten each day
- Part of the 1st student company contact fair in Bischkek
- Michel and Sven on their way to Bishkek
- Yeah with my new Kyrgyz cap
- Our workshop participants
- Winner team of another game, so much fun 🙂
- Alina
- Teamwork
- Cinema
- Food was very delicous
- Ok the space in this car is used well 🙂
- 1 € = 70 Som
- Awesome nature 🙂
- Students playing the Marshmallow game
- Winner of the Marshmallow challange. Awesome iterative approach!
- Michel and Sven enjoying the hike
- Mounts outside of Bishkek
- Winner team of one of the many games we did to teach them real work life challanges
- Preparing the workshop agenda
- street impression in Bishkek
- SCRUM Flow Overview
- Bazar impressions
- Thanks for the great day trip!
- Interesting experience and out of my comfort zone but it was fun 🙂
- Traditional meal
- With Turkish Airline to Bishkek
- mmmhhh how delicious
- Madina our interpreter for the 10 days
- Madina our interpreter for the time in Kyrgyzstan
Hi Sven, nice post!
Yes it was nice and a pleasure working with you…
Hi Sven,
great to read about your experience. Sounds so interesting. Greeting form Berlin Zwetana
Nice post!
Cheers from Chiang Mai 🙂
Micha