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Certified ScrumMaster Workshop for Busy Teams

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Certified ScrumMaster Workshop for Busy Teams
Effective Agile Development is proud to offer this course as a jump start for teams or individuals in Scrum and Agile software development. This course taught by a very experienced Scrum / Agile coach and trainer will give the attendee the understanding of the basics of Scrum and give them hands on experience in a simulated project. Working with a team of other attendees requirements will be given and the team will develop an actual product using Scrum. Attendees will experience the roles of Scrum Master and Product Owner first hand through this effective and popular exercise. This course is taught either in four evening or two Saturday formats to keep your staff productive.

 

 Course Objectives

 

·         A discussion about the reasons why an organization might choose to adopt Scrum

·         A review of the fundamentals of Scrum

·         A review of the important aspects of Agile Analysis and Planning

·         A focus on the role of Scrum Master in all the meetings, processes and decisions of Scrum

·         Practical, skill and experience building practice in running Scrum

·         Instruction and practice to develop your skills as a Scrum Master  and Product Owner in dealing with people

·         Discussion and practice in dealing with organizational challenges

Session 1

Creative Making

·         Why are knowledge workers different?

·         Agile Teaming

·         What makes a good process?

The Case for Scrum

·         Scrum and Agile History

·         Practices or Principles?

·         Lean Software Development Basics

Scrum Process Basics

·         Basic Scrum Flow and Activities

·         Scrum Roles and Relationships

·         Scrum Meetings, Artifacts and the Product Backlog

·          User Stories

·         Prioritization – Cost vs. Business Value

The Scrum Immersion Game

·         Introduction

·         Team Creation

·         Project Tracking

Session 2

 

Agile Analysis

·         Project Vision

·         Agile Analysis – The Transition from Pie in the Sky to Accuracy in Requirements

·         Realistic Agile Design – Making Sure the Pieces Fit Correctly

·         Determining Priority

·         Release Planning

Story Sizing

·         Relative Story Sizing

·         Team Estimation

·         Team Commitment

Exercise Sprint 1

·         Project Visibility

·         Sprint Planning

·         Sprint Acceptance

Session 3

Exercise Sprint 2

The Role of QA

·         Moving Testing Forward

·         The Role of QA

·         Acceptance Testing Overview

·         Agile Specification

Session 4

Exercise Sprint 3

The Release

·         Release Activities

·         Release Acceptance

Implementing Scrum for Your Team

·         Scrum is Hard

·         The Promises of Scrum

·         The Forces Driving and Restraining Scrum – An Exercise

·         Scaling Scrum

·         Technical Challenges

Course Wrap-Up

·         Agile Principles

·         Agile Practices

·         Final Thoughts and Group Discussion

 

 

 

Rod Claar CST® - Principal Consultant

Rod Claar


Rod Claar is a software development coach and instructor with broad experience in Design Patterns, Test Driven Development, Scrum and Agile methodologies. A specialist in coordinating large teams and large projects to increase return on investment through Agile principles and practices.

 Rod has extensive experience teaching and coaching teams to achieve their goals.

 Rod believes that team building is at the heart of this success.  Teams get more done than do the same individuals working independently.

 Rod teaches that team building and team effectiveness are built on communication.  Communication at all levels of the organization. Communication of goals and rationale.  Communication of success and failure.

Rod coaches that in software development, second only to the team and effective communication is quality.  Quality that is built-in and never sacrificed.  Quality starts with requirements.  Requirements have to be understood through business or customer statements that describe the value to be returned rather than a definition of the proposed solution.  Quality continues as the team executes the agile practices tailored to their situation.  The quality of the process is always pushed higher.

 Rod specializes in Retail Technology, Training, Course Development, Software Development Coaching and Mentoring, Enterprise Databases, Design Patterns, Test Driven Development, Team Foundation Server, Visual Studio Team System and people.

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What Others Said...

  I took a course from Rod some time ago on scrum development. It was without a doubt one of the best courses I have ever taken. It combined a presentation format followed by a fantastic 2 day simulation. The simulation was very well designed and perfect for allowing me to internalize the concepts. Perhaps most importantly it demonstrated to me that the concepts really worked extremely well. Switching to agile development requires that you work in a different way and that you let go of past practices and make the leap across the chasm. This simulation allowed me to do that.


Also, other interactive activities helped us recap and review the concepts learn in a fun and engaging way.

I spent 9 years teaching college and several years doing corporate training. As such I really appreciate the challenges of course/content design and the brilliance of this course design and delivery. Rarely have I come across such a pedagogically well designed course. It was absolutely brilliance.

If you're trying to move to agile development methodologies and particularly if you have skeptics in your organization then I would highly recommend this course from Rod. It will make believers and practitioners out of them! 

- Kelly Calvert Group Program Manager, Team Foundation Server, Microsoft

 

Recent Comments...

Enjoyed the class! Great hands-on experience. Thank You. - CM Albuquerque

Great hands-on application of the process. - TO Albuquerque