Douglas E. Shimp Douglas E. Shimp <h3>Why?</h3> <img src="http://images.3back.com/courses/csm/scrum_emergence.jpg" alt="scrum is about adaption at a team level" width="280" /> Agile project management is as radically different from traditional project management as agile processes are different from traditional methodologies. Rather than plan, instruct and direct, the agile project manager facilitates, coaches and leads. In the agile framework known as Scrum, this person is called a ScrumMaster to denote the difference and remind the person filling this role of their new responsibilities. Accepted course participants learn how to be a <a href="http://3back.com/scrum/certified-scrummaster/" title="What is a ScrumMaster?">ScrumMaster </a>and how to make a development team, a project, or an organization agile. The ScrumMaster is responsible for the proper execution of the Scrum framework, and manages the resulting changes within the organization. Exercises, case studies, simulations and experiences are used throughout the course to bring home the realization of how Scrum can work. We will also show how the roles of ScrumMaster, <a href="http://3back.com/scrum/certified-scrum-product-owner/" title="What is a Product Owner?">Product Owner</a> and Team form a critical tripod for effective agile development. All participants are expected to understand Scrum basics prior to attending this course. <h3>Why 3Back?</h3> It is vital that today’s agile practitioners be able to retain what they have learned and apply it to their jobs. Our training leverages modern adult learning with both robust simulations and discussion. We train so that participants can put the ideas presented to practical use: your results are our validation. <a href="http://3back.com/scrum-development-company/" title="Scrum Training & Consulting Company">Company</a> Kane Mar Ken Schwaber Kane Mar Ken Schwaber <div> Certified ScrumMaster is the first significant update of the Certified ScrumMaster class that Ken Schwaber introduced and shared in 2002. As in the original, the framework, mechanics, and roles of Scrum are covered.. However, students are then taught how to use Scrum to optimize value, productivity, and total cost of ownership of systems and products. They understand how to do so through instruction and team-based exercises. They learn to think on their feet to better understand what to do when they return to their workplaces.  In order to do so, the first-principles of Scrum are covered in depth. Students learn why certain decisions are better than others, and why some support Agility and others return the students to waterfall. Students learn to use productivity metrics of Scrum to monitor the results of their decisions. They are then better equipped to make decisions that optimize the results. </div>   Jeff Sutherland, PhD Jeff Sutherland, PhD This course will taught by Jeff Sutherland who invented the first Scrum at Easel Corporation in 1993 and worked with Scrum Co-Creator Ken Schwaber, to formalize the Scrum development process at OOPSLA’95. In 2001, Jeff and Ken were signatories of the Agile Manifesto. You will hear directly from one of the founders of Agile software development on how to implement best practices in your organization. While this course will be taught in English, Jeff was VP of Engineering and then President of a French company for five years. He spent lots of time in Paris and speaks a little French. His French colleagues at Xebia who are Certified ScrumMasters will make sure all concepts are clarified in French. As CTO of PatientKeeper, Jeff evolved a Scrum implementation that includes senior management. PatientKeeper, performs at 10 times the speed of their outsourcing partner and is the first company to use Scrum to achieve a hyperproductive revenue state, quadrupling their revenue in 2007. This is the fifth company where Jeff has led teams into a hyperproductive state. He is highly qualified to teach you the "secret sauce" that makes great Scrum teams. As part of his worldwide Scrum consulting practice, Jeff is Senior Advisor to OpenView Venture Partners, and is responsible for working with over a dozen venture funded startup companies to optimize their Scrum implementations. He has trained the entire staff of the venture group including the partners. They are the first venture group to run their business using Scrum and they invest only in Agile companies. As a result, Jeff is working directly with both senior management and engineers in portfolio companies to produce better Scrum implementations. Knowledge of where these companies succeed and where they fail can help you avoid their pitfalls and capitalize on their success. Jeff's experiences consulting with leading companies like Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Oracle, Palm, Adobe, Siemens, Phillips and many others will provide valuable input for new Certified ScrumMasters on how to startup and optimize Scrum teams. He has lots of war stories to share with the class after 15 years of doing nothing but Scrum.. Experience with distributed/outsourced Scrum teams (see SirsiDynix project) and has helped implement Scrum in a CMMI Level 5 company (see Agile 2007  Scrum and CMMI paper) and several CMMI Level 3 companies. These and other papers can be found in the latest draft of "The Scrum Papers" at http://jeffsutherland.com/scrum/scrumpapers.pdf. You will learn the latest thinking about how to help your teams from direct experience with some of the best Scrum implementations. Jeff has used his last five companies as laboratories for inspected and adapting to improve Scrum implementations. Mary Poppendieck reports on Jeff's latest Scrum implementation in her book on Lean Software Development: Five years ago a killer application emerged in the health care industry: Give doctors access to patient information on a PDA. Today there is no question which company won the race to dominate this exploding market; PatientKeeper has overwhelmed its competition with its capability to bring new products and features to market just about every week. The sixty or so technical people produce more software than many organizations several times larger, and they do not show any sign that the size of their code base is slowing them down. A key strategy that has kept PatientKeeper at the front of the pack is an emphasis on unprecedented speed in delivering new features. It will not surprise anyone who understands Lean that PatientKeeper has to maintain superb quality in order to support its rapid delivery. CTO Jeff Sutherland explains it this way: “Rapid cycle time: <ul> <li>Increases learning tremendously</li> <li>Eliminates buggy software because you die if you don't fix this.</li> <li>Fixes the install process because you die if you have to install 45 releases this year and install is not easy. </li> <li>Improves the upgrade process because there is a constant flow of upgrades that are mandatory. Makes upgrades easy.</li> <li>Forces quick standardization of software via new features rather than customization and one off.</li> <li>Forces implementation of sustainable pace. You die a death of attrition without it. </li> <li>Allows waiting to build new functionality until there are 4-5 customers who pay for it. This is counterintuitive, and caused by the fact everything is ready within 90 days.”</li> </ul> In this course, participants will learn everything necessary for getting started with Scrum. There are very few rules to Scrum so it is important to learn its fundamental principles by experiencing them. Participants gain hands-on practice with the release backlog, sprint backlog, the daily Scrum meeting, tracking progress with a burndown chart, and more. Participants experience the Scrum process through team exercises which simulate Scrum projects. The course will run from 9am-5pm each day. A continental breakfast and lunch will be provided. Following the course, each participant is enrolled as a Certified ScrumMaster, which includes a one-year membership in the Scrum Alliance, where additional Certified ScrumMaster-only material and information are available. Boris Gloger Boris Gloger THIS CLASS IS IN ENGLISH and has also the Cooking Event as part of the class. You are interested in a Certified ScrumMaster class? This class is going to be taught by the Author of "Scrum - Produkte schnell und zuverlässig entwickeln", one of the most experienced ScrumTrainers and Coaches. Boris Gloger was trained and mentored directly by Ken Schwaber and Norm Kerth. Why a Certified ScrumMaster course? I believe the ScrumMaster is a leader and a change agent on a mission. His duty is to make a Scrum development team successful. Throughout this course you can experience how to professionally take up the role of a Change Agent using Scrum as your swiss knife. My vision for this course is that you learn that working together can create outstanding results. This is why I inlcude tons of hands-excercises with the peek event of cooking scrumish. During this Certified ScrumMaster course we will teach you how to make a development team, a project or an organisation agile and successful. What can you achieve from a Certified ScrumMaster course? <ul> <li>I will teach you how Scrum works and take you through the Scrum flow.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>You willunderstand the different roles involved in Scrum.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>I show you planning techniques that can be used in order to run Scrum teams successfully.</li> </ul> I promise: You will leave the ScrumMaster course with a new mindset and a new approach to work.   Prepare yourself for a two day long roller coaster ride full of creativity and emotion! Stay tuned by showing up on my blog. News, insights and more you will find on www.borisgloger.com Lyssa Adkins Lyssa Adkins   In this two-day course, you will apply the Scrum framework to build a new product. You will learn what it feels like to be on a Scrum team—experiencing many of the challenges you're likely to face—while being coached by someone involved with the application of Scrum at many organizations. This “learning by doing” style of instruction demands your open mind and active participation. We will apply the experiential activities to discussion of advanced topics such as how to use Scrum in multiple-team organizations, how to measure progress empirically at a macro level, release planning to maximize ROI, and why such a simple framework disrupts organizations to be the best they can be. ScrumMaster Certification training includes two days of lectures and interactive exercises designed to effectively teach Scrum principles and practices.  Successful completion of a two-day ScrumMaster Certification course, taught by a Certified Scrum Trainer, is a requisite for taking the Certified ScrumMaster exam.  Upon completion of the course, attendees are eligible to take the exam, the successful completion of which results in the designation of "Certified ScrumMaster" from the Scrum Alliance. Food and refreshments are typically provided.   <h5>About Danube</h5> Founded in Seattle in 2000, Danube Technologies, Inc. is a project success company, specializing in the improvement of management and engineering practices for software development organizations. A leader in Scrum transformation services, the company’s ScrumCORE™ team provides training, mentoring, and professional services to commercial and in-house development teams around the globe. With more than 90,000 licensed users, Danube is also the developer and publisher of the industry-leading Scrum lifecycle management tools ScrumWorks® Basic and ScrumWorks® Pro. ScrumWorks is used to manage the Scrum lifecycle for Global 2000 corporations including Adobe, Amazon.com, DICOM, GE, Hewlett Packard, Intuit, Lexus Nexus, Motorola, Oracle, and Sun Microsystems.   <h5>Public Course Cancellation & Refresh Policy</h5> Full refunds are available up until 10 business days before the scheduled event date. Cancellations made within 10 business days of the event will be credited toward future events. However, no refunds will be issued. Rescheduling course attendance within 3 full business days or less will be subject to a transfer fee. No refunds or credits will be available for participants that fail to attend both days of the course. Substitutions will be accepted at any time prior to commencement of the course. As an added value to course participants, Danube reserves two seats at each of its public courses for individuals who have already successfully completed a course from Danube, but would like to take it a second time at no cost. This allows participants to brush up on their Scrum basics or attend a session led by a different Certified Scrum Trainer. The offer is provided on a first-come, first-served basis and must be used for the same course as the original (i.e., an individual who completed a CSM course may enroll in another CSM course, but not a Product Owner course). In addition, this offer is only available within the first six months following the original course, so please contact Danube as early as possible to reserve your seat. Jimi Fosdick, PMP Jimi Fosdick, PMP   <h5>Certified Product Owner Course</h5> Scrum is a simple, empirically based framework that has wide ranging implications. Key to the success of Scrum is the role of the Product Owner. The Product Owner is responsible for a project’s Return on Investment (ROI), guiding the Scrum team, and representing Customers as well as Business and Development staff. Strong Product Ownership is key to successful Scrum transformations. Learn the essentials of working as a Scrum Alliance Certified Product Owner (CSPO) in this two-day class. Danube’s CSPO equips participants with the knowledge of Scrum principles and practices necessary to succeed in this new paradigm. Participants can expect to learn how to establish and maintain a backlog and write stories with clear acceptance criteria. We will also discuss real-world organizational challenges such as managing distributed teams, managing large or multiple projects, release planning, and metrics. Food and refreshments are typically provided. <h5>About Danube</h5> Founded in Seattle in 2000, Danube Technologies, Inc. is a project success company, specializing in the improvement of management and engineering practices for software development organizations. A leader in Scrum transformation services, the company’s ScrumCORE™ team provides training, mentoring, and professional services to commercial and in-house development teams around the globe. With more than 90,000 licensed users, Danube is also the developer and publisher of the industry-leading Scrum lifecycle management tools ScrumWorks® Basic and ScrumWorks® Pro. ScrumWorks is used to manage the Scrum lifecycle for Global 2000 corporations including Adobe, Amazon.com, DICOM, GE, Hewlett Packard, Intuit, Lexus Nexus, Motorola, Oracle, and Sun Microsystems.   <h5>Public Course Cancellation & Refresh Policy</h5> Full refunds are available up until 10 business days before the scheduled event date. Cancellations made within 10 business days of the event will be credited toward future events. However, no refunds will be issued. Rescheduling course attendance within 3 full business days or less will be subject to a transfer fee. No refunds or credits will be available for participants that fail to attend both days of the course. Substitutions will be accepted at any time prior to commencement of the course. As an added value to course participants, Danube reserves two seats at each of its public courses for individuals who have already successfully completed a course from Danube, but would like to take it a second time at no cost. This allows participants to brush up on their Scrum basics or attend a session led by a different Certified Scrum Trainer. The offer is provided on a first-come, first-served basis and must be used for the same course as the original (i.e., an individual who completed a CSM course may enroll in another CSM course, but not a Product Owner course). In addition, this offer is only available within the first six months following the original course, so please contact Danube as early as possible to reserve your seat. Roman Pichler Roman Pichler <div> Dieses zweitägige Seminar vermittelt Ihnen das notwendige Wissen, um als Product Owner erfolgreich arbeiten zu können. Nach Besuch des Seminars verstehen Sie die Rolle des Product Owner zusammen mit Rechten und Pflichten und der Interaktion mit den anderen Scrum-Rollen. Sie lernen, wie Sie Scrum zur Optimierung von Kundenzufriedenheit und Wertschöpfung einsetzen können. Hierzu zählen das Kreieren einer Produktvision, das Erstellen und Pflegen des Product Backlog, das Entwerfen eines realistischen Release-Plans, Techniken zur Priorisierung von Anforderungen und das progressive Verfeinern von Anforderungen. <h4>Ziel</h4> Die Teilnehmer werden zum Certified Scrum Product Owner ausgebildet. <h4>Voraussetzungen</h4> Die Teilnehmer müssen über Basiswissen im Bereich Produktmanagement verfügen. Zusätzlich müssen die Teilnehmer folgende Bücher gelesen haben: <ul> <li>Roman Pichler. <a href="http://my.safaribooksonline.com/9780321684165" title="Agile Product Management with Scrum">Agile Product Management with Scrum: Creating Products that Customers Love</a>. Addison-Wesley. </li> <li>Ken Schwaber. <a href="/resources/598" title="Scrum Guide">Scrum Guide</a>. Scrum Alliance. 2009. </li> </ul> </div> Robin Dymond Robin Dymond O Gerenciamento de Projetos Ágeis com Scrum precisa de um Scrum Master que possua os conhecimentos e habilidades necessárias para auxiliar no sucesso da equipe. Variantes de Scrum tem sido amplamente adotadas com muito sucesso em projetos no mundo inteiro por empresas como Yahoo, Salesforce, Globo.bom, Nokia, IBM, Ericsson e Hewlett Packard. Neste workshop ensinaremos como implementar Scrum, como ser um Scrum Master e como lidar com seus clientes e a sua organização. Importante - Este treinamento  foi projetado de forma a permitir que os participantes possam discutir em português durante o trabalho em equipe. Gerenciamento de projetos ágeis é tão radicalmente diferente de gerenciamento de projetos tradicionais, como os processos ágeis são diferentes das metodologias tradicionais. Ao invés de planejar, instruir e direcionar, o gerente de projetos ágeis lidera. Esta pessoa é chamada de Scrum Master. O Scrum é utilizado atualmente como fundamento para os mais importantes frameworks de processos de desenvolvimento de software do mercado. Ele é a base da disciplina de gestão de projetos da instãncia open source do RUP, o OpenUP. É também utilizado como base da gestão de projetos do processo da Microsoft, o MSF Agile. Os participantes aceitos aprendem como se tornar um Scrum Master e como fazer uma equipe de desenvolvimento, um projeto ou uma organização ser ágil e ter sucesso. Exercícios, estudos de caso, e exemplos são usados para entender como ser um Scrum Master. <h2>Objetivos</h2> Cada individuo será treinado para ser capaz de assumir as seguintes responsabilidades:   <ul> <li>Remover as barreiras entre o desenvolvimento e o cliente, para que o cliente dirija o desenvolvimento. </li> <li>Ensinar o cliente como maximizar o ROI e alcançar os seus objetivos atraves de Scrum. </li> <li>Melhorar a vida da equipe de desenvolvimento atraves da liberação da criatividade e o fortalecimento. </li> <li>Melhorar a produtividade da equipe de desenvolvimento de todas as formas possíveis </li> <li>Melhorar as práticas de engenharia e suas ferramentas, para que todo incremento de funcionalidades seja potencialmente entregável.</li> </ul> <h2>Metodologia de Treinamento</h2> Usaremos muitos exercícios durante o treinamento. Depois do treinamento não somente você entenderá Scrum, como sentirá a diferença. Este treinamento oferecerá o sentimento do Scrum em si mesmo. O primeiro dia é dedicado ao porquê e à Filosofia do Scrum. Durante o segundo dia cobriremos as ferramentas e o Como do Scrum. Usando estórias, estudos de caso e experiências ensinaremos a metodologia Scrum e como aplicá-la para ser um gerente de projetos ágeis, um Scrum Master.   <h2>Graduação</h2> Na graduação, ao término de um treinamento de sucesso, cada participante recebe uma licença e uma cópia da metodologia Scrum, materiais de treinamento de Scrum e software de gestão de projetos com Scrum. Também, Certified Scrum Masters são autorizados a participar no desenvolvimento "aberto" da metodologia e do software, assegurando o crescimento do corpo de conhecimento a partir de um grupo competente e qualificado de profissionais certificados. Participantes que tenham sido treinados com sucesso tambem serão adicionados na lista de Certified Scrum Master em <a href="/">www.ScrumAlliance.org</a>. Rachel Weston Rachel Weston Learn the essentials of working as a ScrumMaster or Scrum team member in this course. While the Scrum Alliance provides a list of core concepts that must be covered in the class, each instructor creates his or her own material, allowing courses to differ based on the strengths, interests, and experiences of the instructor. This two-day ScrumMaster certification course taught by Scrum Alliance Certified Scrum Trainers provides everything you need to get started with Scrum. One of the largest and fastest-growing Agile project management frameworks, Scrum is a simple software management technique that has a small set of interrelated practices and rules, is not overly prescriptive and is able to produce productivity gains for software development teams almost immediately. This course shares time-tested practices for managing product backlogs, planning your releases and iterations (Sprints) and tracking and reporting progress. You'll learn how to plan and run Sprint Planning Meetings, daily Scrum Meetings, Sprint Reviews, Sprint Retrospectives and more! <div> </div> <div>Currently, an individual is certified when he or she has attended, participated in, and completed a Certified ScrumMaster course. </div>   On completion, participants are registered as Certified ScrumMasters (CSMs), which includes a two-year membership in the Scrum Alliance, (<a href="http://www.scrumalliance.org/">www.scrumalliance.org</a>) where valuable ScrumMaster-material and information are available exclusively to CSMs. Ronica Roth Ronica Roth Learn the essentials of working as a ScrumMaster or Scrum team member in this course. While the Scrum Alliance provides a list of core concepts that must be covered in the class, each instructor creates his or her own material, allowing courses to differ based on the strengths, interests, and experiences of the instructor. This two-day ScrumMaster certification course taught by Scrum Alliance Certified Scrum Trainers provides everything you need to get started with Scrum. One of the largest and fastest-growing Agile project management frameworks, Scrum is a simple software management technique that has a small set of interrelated practices and rules, is not overly prescriptive and is able to produce productivity gains for software development teams almost immediately. This course shares time-tested practices for managing product backlogs, planning your releases and iterations (Sprints) and tracking and reporting progress. You'll learn how to plan and run Sprint Planning Meetings, daily Scrum Meetings, Sprint Reviews, Sprint Retrospectives and more!   Currently, an individual is certified after he or she has attended and completed a Certified ScrumMaster course and passed the ScrumMaster exam from Scrum Alliance.  On completion, participants are registered as Certified ScrumMasters (CSMs), which includes a two-year membership in the Scrum Alliance, (<a href="/">www.scrumalliance.org</a>) where valuable ScrumMaster-material and information are available exclusively to CSMs. For more information, go to <a href="/scrum_certification">http://www.scrumalliance.org/scrum_certification</a>   Dan Rawsthorne, PhD Dan Rawsthorne, PhD   <h5>Certified Product Owner Course</h5> Scrum is a simple, empirically based framework that has wide ranging implications. Key to the success of Scrum is the role of the Product Owner. The Product Owner is responsible for a project’s Return on Investment (ROI), guiding the Scrum team, and representing Customers as well as Business and Development staff. Strong Product Ownership is key to successful Scrum transformations. Learn the essentials of working as a Scrum Alliance Certified Product Owner (CSPO) in this two-day class. Danube’s CSPO equips participants with the knowledge of Scrum principles and practices necessary to succeed in this new paradigm. Participants can expect to learn how to establish and maintain a backlog and write stories with clear acceptance criteria. We will also discuss real-world organizational challenges such as managing distributed teams, managing large or multiple projects, release planning, and metrics. Food and refreshments are typically provided. <h5>About Danube</h5> Founded in Seattle in 2000, Danube Technologies, Inc. is a project success company, specializing in the improvement of management and engineering practices for software development organizations. A leader in Scrum transformation services, the company’s ScrumCORE™ team provides training, mentoring, and professional services to commercial and in-house development teams around the globe. With more than 90,000 licensed users, Danube is also the developer and publisher of the industry-leading Scrum lifecycle management tools ScrumWorks® Basic and ScrumWorks® Pro. ScrumWorks is used to manage the Scrum lifecycle for Global 2000 corporations including Adobe, Amazon.com, DICOM, GE, Hewlett Packard, Intuit, Lexus Nexus, Motorola, Oracle, and Sun Microsystems.   <h5>Public Course Cancellation & Refresh Policy</h5> Full refunds are available up until 10 business days before the scheduled event date. Cancellations made within 10 business days of the event will be credited toward future events. However, no refunds will be issued. Rescheduling course attendance within 3 full business days or less will be subject to a transfer fee. No refunds or credits will be available for participants that fail to attend both days of the course. Substitutions will be accepted at any time prior to commencement of the course. As an added value to course participants, Danube reserves two seats at each of its public courses for individuals who have already successfully completed a course from Danube, but would like to take it a second time at no cost. This allows participants to brush up on their Scrum basics or attend a session led by a different Certified Scrum Trainer. The offer is provided on a first-come, first-served basis and must be used for the same course as the original (i.e., an individual who completed a CSM course may enroll in another CSM course, but not a Product Owner course). In addition, this offer is only available within the first six months following the original course, so please contact Danube as early as possible to reserve your seat. Jeff Patton Jeff Patton <h3>Product ownership is one of the most difficult and critical roles in Scrum </h3> <img src="http://www.agileproductdesign.com/training/images/out_of_order_xsm.jpg" alt="" align="left" />If you’re a typical person in a product ownership role, you’re struggling to find time to understand Scrum and fulfill all your new responsibilities.  You’re still dealing with competing concerns from a variety of people inside and outside your company.  You’ve got a team hungry for details on what’s in the next sprint, and eager for you to spend more time with them – time you don’t have.  While you can see some real advantages to Scrum, there are days you long for your old process.  While you’re passionate about your product, the product owner role is leaving you feeling overwhelmed.   <h3>This 2-day course is directed at helping you perform effectively as a Scrum product owner</h3> <img src="http://www.agileproductdesign.com/training/images/team_clapping_xsm.jpg" alt="" align="left" />You’ll gain understanding of the concepts and the skills to work effectively as a Scrum product owner.  Instead of focusing solely on the Scrum role responsibilities, we’ll practice techniques that make you more effective at fulfilling those responsibilities. You’ll learn how to: <ul> <li>involve the whole team and your stakeholders in identifying the business benefit to focus on,</li> <li>understand customers and users, </li> <li>build a product backlog, and </li> <li>design the user interface. </li> </ul> By leveraging the whole team, you’ll ease your workload, and help everyone else become active involved champions for a successful product – just like you are. <h3> </h3> <h3>Reclaiming lost roles as valuable parts of the product ownership team</h3> <img src="http://www.agileproductdesign.com/training/images/wtf_xsm.jpg" alt="" align="left" />When adopting Scrum or agile processes, many traditional software development roles seem to fall through the cracks.  If you’re a *business analyst*, *user experience designer*, or anyone focused on helping to determine what the right thing to build is, you might have found your role in Scrum uncertain in.  Don’t despair.  This course focuses on a team approach where a primary more strategic product owner is supported by a team of more tactical product owners that help carry the product from abstract vision to concrete detail.  If you’re a BA or UX person, you fill this important tactical role and you’ll learn what you can do to make the product a success.   <h3>Course benefits: </h3> After this course you’ll be better at: <ul> <li>Effectively collaborating with and managing stakeholders</li> <li>Creating alignment with the team and stakeholders around common measurable product goals</li> <li>Forming productive and collaborative customers and end-user relationships </li> <li>Productive meeting and workshop facilitation</li> <li>Planning and carrying out product discovery sessions to build a product backlog, envision and estimate the product, and plan incremental releases </li> <li>Knowing what’s necessary to design and validate usable user interfaces</li> <li>Planning the product construction sprint by sprint </li> <li>Releasing on time by managing risks and maximizing learning while building software </li> </ul>   <h3>Practices you'll learn</h3> You’ll learn about and practice a variety of techniques including: <ul> <li>Discovery process planning</li> <li>Identifying MPGs: measurable product goals</li> <li>Creating customer and organizational profiles</li> <li>Creating lightweight pragmatic user personas</li> <li>User interview basics </li> <li>User Story Mapping to understand users and their use of your product</li> <li>Incremental release planning</li> <li>Design studio for collaborative consider multiple solutions</li> <li>Paper prototyping and testing user interface</li> <li>User story splitting and thinning</li> <li>Tactical release planning and management</li> <li>Release readiness assessment</li> <li>Workshop planning and facilitation </li> </ul>   <h3>This course is different:</h3> <img src="http://www.agileproductdesign.com/training/images/being_different_as_a_fish_xsm.jpg" alt="we're different" align="left" />It’s about the product, not the process. Instead of focusing on filling process obligations, we’ll direct attention to the practices that help you identify and steer the development of successful products. Scrum’s process obligations are relatively simple. Building confidence and clarity around product success simplifies meeting those obligations. It’s about product benefit. Focusing on building required features on time does not ensure product success. We’ll focus on identifying and steering product releases towards the desired benefit for your company, your customers, and your users. It’s about customer experience. Product success is an outcome of a successful customer and user experience. We’ll focus on practices that build and leverage customer and user understanding. We’ll focus on continuous customer and user engagement. It’s about design thinking. Great products don’t come from captured requirements, but from deep understanding of the problems to be solved, and an effective approach to identifying and validating solutions. This is design thinking. It’s about collaboration. The best products come from collaborative teams aligned around a common purpose. Effective collaboration doesn’t happen by accident. We’ll focus on helping you build the skills to facilitate successful whole team collaboration.   <h3>This course is taught by Jeff Patton, a veteran agile and Scrum practitioner </h3> <img src="http://www.agileproductdesign.com/images/jeff_teaching_xsm.jpg" alt="" align="left" />Jeff Patton has designed and built software for the past 15 years on a wide variety of products from on-line aircraft parts ordering to electronic medical records. Jeff has focused on Agile approaches since working on an early Extreme Programming team in 2000. In particular Jeff has specialized in the application of user experience design practice to improve Agile requirements, planning, and ultimately the products delivered. Jeff currently works as an independent consultant, agile process coach, product design process coach, and instructor.  Current articles, essays, and presentations on variety of topics in Agile product development can be found at www.AgileProductDesign.com and in Alistair Cockburn’s Crystal Clear.  Jeff is founder and list moderator of the agile-usability Yahoo discussion group, a columnist with StickyMinds.com and IEEE Software, a Certified Scrum Trainer, and winner of the Agile Alliance’s 2007 Gordon Pask Award for contributions to Agile Development. Website including writing, past presentations, and blog: <a href="http://www.agileproductdesign.com">www.agileproductdesign.com</a>   Martine M. Devos Martine M. Devos Learn to lead agile Software Projects that adapt to change & discovery, improve collaboration, drive innovation and deliver business value. Agile methods are taking the IT and software development worlds by storm. Why? Because they're effective and they better align with the realities of software development projects, i.e. changing requirements, ever more challenging technologies, highly compressed schedules and evolving teams. This workshop teaches you how to adapt and respond to all of these challenges within your software projects. Software Projects Require more than traditional project management techniques This workshop focuses on bringing non-traditional methods to bear within your software projects. With project consistently failing at a +60% level for the past 10 plus years, it's clear that traditional techniques aren't working all that well. We'll explore how to blend traditional and non-traditional PM techniques to enhance your project success and delivery of real business value. We'll examine Agility as it relates to estimating, planning, risk management, change and release management. Improve Your Professional Skills – a key ingredient to Agile success Today's software teams require vastly different leadership and management skills from Project Managers to truly achieve success. You can't simply tell everyone what to do. Instead, you need to be a strong coach, a change agent and very effective at stakeholder management. Each method and discussion point brings home the fact that trying to drive success through planning simply doesn't work. Instead, plans need to be actualised through the organisation and the team. Cutting Edge Ideas This workshop serves as a learning springboard into further areas of Agile Project management. The workshop is based on leading edge tools and techniques from some of the principles leading the Agile revolution. ScrumMaster Certification This course also leads to ScrumMaster Certication. We'll explore concepts from: <ul> <li>Agile Estimation and Planning – Cohn </li> <li>Agile & Iterative Development – Larman </li> <li>Agile Project Management – Highsmith </li> <li>Extreme Programming – Beck </li> <li>Lean Software Development – Poppendieck </li> <li>Retrospectives – Kerth </li> <li>Scrum – Schwaber & Beedle </li> </ul> Simon Roberts Simon Roberts Die Rolle des Product Owner in Scrum unterscheidet sich vom Projektleiter in einer herkömmlichen Projektorganisation. Er definiert die Prioritäten und damit Scope und Fokus des Projekts. Er verantwortet den Produkterfolg gegenüber dem Auftraggeber, nimmt neue Anforderungen anderer Stakeholder auf und steht dem Team für Fragen zur Verfügung.  Weitere Informationen über Scrum erhalten Sie hier: <a href="http://www.controlchaos.com/about">http://www.scrumalliance.org/pages/what_is_scrum</a> <h3>Ziel</h3>     Sie verstehen die Aufgaben des Product Owner und erhalten die Fähigkeit, Scrum in Ihrem Projektumfeld einzusetzen. Der Kurs vertieft die Prinzipien und Praktiken von Scrum. Er zeigt die Voraussetzungen und Änderungen auf, die notwendig sind, damit agiles Vorgehen und Scrum in Ihrem Unternehmen erfolgreich sein können.  Als Kursteilnehmer/in erhalten Sie die Ernennung zum Certified Scrum Product Owner, die eine einjährige Mitgliedschaft bei der Scrum Alliance einschließt. Weitere Informationen über das Zertifizierungsprogramm erhalten Sie hier: <a href="/training/">http://www.scrumalliance.org/training/</a> James N. Smith James N. Smith Even projects that have solid, well-defined project plans encounter some degree of change and waste.  Shifting market conditions, budget cuts, staff restructuring, or any number of influences will disrupt the best plan while contributing to customer dissatisfaction and staff discouragement.  Moreover, projects that begin with changing or unclear requirements make it difficult to even establish project expectations.   Scrum is the agile development framework that allows teams to deliver usable product periodically throughout the life of the project, absorbing change and new requirements as the project proceeds. Beginning with the history of agile development and moving through the disciplines promoted by Scrum, you will gain a comprehensive understanding of the Scrum framework while specifically reviewing the behaviors expected of a ScrumMaster. About a week before coming to class you'll receive via email pre-requisite Scrum overview reading material.  Additionally, as part of the two-day class each participant will receive the following: <ul> <li>a hard copy of the presentation and exercise materials </li> <li>a Scrum Reference card </li> <li>planning poker cards </li> <li>electronic access to all presentation and exercise materials from Winnow Management for one year </li> <li>registration with the Scrum Alliance as  being eligible to take the required on-line Certified ScrumMaster exam (effective October 1, 2009) </li> <li>membership with the Scrum Alliance for two years</li> </ul>  Participants can also claim 14 PDU's with the PMI. Arlen Bankston Arlen Bankston This two-day ScrumMaster certification prep course provides everything you need to get started with Scrum. On completion, participants are eligible to take an exam which allows them to be registered as Certified ScrumMasters (CSMs), which includes a one-year membership in the Scrum Alliance (<a href="/">www.scrumalliance.org</a> <<a href="http://www.scrumalliance.com/">http://www.scrumalliance.com/</a>> ), where valuable ScrumMaster materials and information are available exclusively to CSMs. <div> <div> This course will introduce the essential concepts and tools of Scrum, highlighting differences between agile processes and traditional "waterfall" methodologies and providing a roadmap for adopting Agile. Participants will learn how to lead development teams towards agile operations by managing product backlogs, planning releases and sprints, tracking and reporting progress, and conducting retrospectives. This course is taught by active Agile practitioners with decades of real-world industry experience at companies ranging from small business to the Fortune 100. Exercises, case studies, and examples are interwoven throughout the course to illustrate the principles being taught. </div> </div> <div> <div> </div> <div>Discounts Please contact training at <a href="http://lithespeed.com/">lithespeed.com</a> to request one of these discounts: </div> </div> ·        Hardship discount (50%) – If you’re between jobs. ·        Individual discount (25%) – If you’re paying on your own. ·        PMI or APLN membership discount (15%) – For members of these organizations. ·        Group discount (10% for 3-4, 15% for 5-6, 20% for 7+) – For multiple attendees from one organization. Bonus Offerings Attendees will receive: ·        16 PDUs towards PMI continuing certification requirements ·        Scrum Lifecycle Poster, with helpful tips summarized in an elegant illustration ·        Discount on Sanjiv Augustine's book, Managing Agile Projects ·        Free lunch, snacks and beverages Peter Measey Peter Measey This Course employs practical exercises, Case Studies and discussions to provide everything that a ScrumMaster needs to know to be able to facilitate a successful Scrum Project. Participants who complete the course successfully will be designated Certified ScrumMaster (CSM).This Certification includes membership in the Scrum Alliance, where additional materials and information is available exclusively to CSM’s. With 25 years Information technology experience, Peter has excellent experience working within very many diverse environments within both the Public and Private Sectors. He has specialised in the agile space since 1996 and has managed the implementation of some of the largest Agile transformations in the Public and Private sector both in the UK and internationally, including business (non IT) implementations of agile. Some comments from attendees about Peter’s CSM training :- ‘Thank you Pete, really enjoyed the two days, feel you encouraged great interaction’  ‘Enthusiasm of the trainer made it !’  ‘Very much enjoyed the pragmatic approach and real world application throughout the course’ Robin Dymond Robin Dymond O Gerenciamento de Projetos Ágeis com Scrum precisa de um Scrum Master que possua os conhecimentos e habilidades necessárias para auxiliar no sucesso da equipe. Variantes de Scrum tem sido amplamente adotadas com muito sucesso em projetos no mundo inteiro por empresas como Yahoo, Salesforce, Globo.bom, Nokia, IBM, Ericsson e Hewlett Packard. Neste workshop ensinaremos como implementar Scrum, como ser um Scrum Master e como lidar com seus clientes e a sua organização. Importante - Este treinamento  foi projetado de forma a permitir que os participantes possam discutir em português durante o trabalho em equipe. Gerenciamento de projetos ágeis é tão radicalmente diferente de gerenciamento de projetos tradicionais, como os processos ágeis são diferentes das metodologias tradicionais. Ao invés de planejar, instruir e direcionar, o gerente de projetos ágeis lidera. Esta pessoa é chamada de Scrum Master. O Scrum é utilizado atualmente como fundamento para os mais importantes frameworks de processos de desenvolvimento de software do mercado. Ele é a base da disciplina de gestão de projetos da instãncia open source do RUP, o OpenUP. É também utilizado como base da gestão de projetos do processo da Microsoft, o MSF Agile. Os participantes aceitos aprendem como se tornar um Scrum Master e como fazer uma equipe de desenvolvimento, um projeto ou uma organização ser ágil e ter sucesso. Exercícios, estudos de caso, e exemplos são usados para entender como ser um Scrum Master. <h2>Objetivos</h2> Cada individuo será treinado para ser capaz de assumir as seguintes responsabilidades:   <ul> <li>Remover as barreiras entre o desenvolvimento e o cliente, para que o cliente dirija o desenvolvimento. </li> <li>Ensinar o cliente como maximizar o ROI e alcançar os seus objetivos atraves de Scrum. </li> <li>Melhorar a vida da equipe de desenvolvimento atraves da liberação da criatividade e o fortalecimento. </li> <li>Melhorar a produtividade da equipe de desenvolvimento de todas as formas possíveis </li> <li>Melhorar as práticas de engenharia e suas ferramentas, para que todo incremento de funcionalidades seja potencialmente entregável.</li> </ul> <h2>Metodologia de Treinamento</h2> Usaremos muitos exercícios durante o treinamento. Depois do treinamento não somente você entenderá Scrum, como sentirá a diferença. Este treinamento oferecerá o sentimento do Scrum em si mesmo. O primeiro dia é dedicado ao porquê e à Filosofia do Scrum. Durante o segundo dia cobriremos as ferramentas e o Como do Scrum. Usando estórias, estudos de caso e experiências ensinaremos a metodologia Scrum e como aplicá-la para ser um gerente de projetos ágeis, um Scrum Master.   <h2>Graduação</h2> Na graduação, ao término de um treinamento de sucesso, cada participante recebe uma licença e uma cópia da metodologia Scrum, materiais de treinamento de Scrum e software de gestão de projetos com Scrum. Também, Certified Scrum Masters são autorizados a participar no desenvolvimento "aberto" da metodologia e do software, assegurando o crescimento do corpo de conhecimento a partir de um grupo competente e qualificado de profissionais certificados. Participantes que tenham sido treinados com sucesso tambem serão adicionados na lista de Certified Scrum Master em <a href="/">www.ScrumAlliance.org</a>. Vincent Tencé Vincent Tencé La gestion de projet Agile est aussi radicalement différente de la gestion de projet traditionnelle que les processus Agiles sont différents des méthodologies traditionnelles. Plutôt que de planifier, contrôler et diriger, le gestionnaire de projet Agile facilite et agit comme mentor et leader au sein d'équipes autoorganisées. Scrum, une des approches Agiles les plus utilisées et certainement celle suscitant le plus d'intérêt, est un cadre de gestion de projet qui propose un ensemble restreint de pratiques organisationnelles et de règles simples. Scrum, sans être prescriptif, permet, lorsque pratiqué avec discipline et courage, d'augmenter significativement la productivité des équipes de développement logiciel, et ce, presque instantanément. Alexandre Magno Alexandre Magno <div> Neste treinamento de dois dias você não somente conhecerá os fundamentos do Scrum, mas terá experiências hands-on usando Scrum. Este treinamento coloca a teoria em ação através de várias atividades práticas que simulam em sala de aula o funcionamento do Scrum. Durante o treinamento, os participantes irão entender como um simples - mas eficiente - processo como Scrum pode transformar os resultados de uma empresa. Os participantes deste treinamento irão adquirir experiência com as ferramentas utilizadas no Scrum e em atividades ligadas a Product e Sprint Backlogs, Daily Meetings, Sprint Planning Meeting, Review, Retrospectives e Burndown charts. Irão também aprender como aplicar Scrum em diversos tipos de projetos, do single collocated team ao time distribuído em ambiente off-shore.  Para saber mais sobre o processo de certificação de Scrum, por favor consulte <a href="/scrum_certification">http://www.scrumalliance.org/scrum_certification</a>  <div> </div> </div>   Michael Franken Michael Franken Op 11 en 12 Februari 2010 organiseren we een officiële Certified ScrumMaster training. De training wordt gegeven door Michael Franken. <div> </div>   Alan E. Cyment Alan E. Cyment El objetivo principal del curso Certiﬁed Scrum Master es introducir de manera vivencial los principios fundamentales de la metodología ágil de mayor adopción en la industria. Desde el punto de vista pedagógico, las metodologías ágiles constituyen un desafío mayúsculo, dado que comparten con juegos como el ajedrez la paradoja del aprendizaje práctico: las reglas se explican en minutos, pero el verdadero aprendizaje se realiza únicamente mediante su utilización. Este curso logra, en solamente dos días, entusiasmar y formar al asistente, haciéndolo partícipe de su propio aprendizaje. Joseph Pelrine Joseph Pelrine Self-organisation of human beings is a tricky thing. Agile coaches, especially ScrumMasters, are constantly challenged with how to motivate/persuade/trick their teams into self-organising and doing things, without telling them what to do, but there is very little information or training on this topic. Allowing a team to self-organise along the lines of “oh well, they’re all adults, they’ll figure it out” is just as irresponsible as reverting to the command-and-control school of management. So, how should one go about it? This course presents an approach utilising leading-edge research and techniques from social complexity science and team dynamics to change the dynamics of a team with the aim of optimising their work together. <h4>What you will learn</h4> <ul> <li>You'll receive an understanding of the dynamics involved in social self-organization</li> <li>You'll learn how to change the behaviour and performance of a team from outside</li> <li>You'll discover how to analyze and stimulate social networks to make both co-located and distributed teams work better</li> <li>You'll get a set of cognitive models and tools which you can put into use right away</li> </ul> <h4>See what others are saying about this course</h4> <ul> <li><a href="http://chcrudy.wordpress.com/2009/08/30/joseph-pelrine-self-organizing-teams-and-turning-up-the-heat/">Joseph Pelrine: Self-organizing teams and Turning up the heat</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.ricardomestre.com/2009/11/08/about-the-munich-scrum-gathering-pt-2/">About the Munich Scrum Gathering - pt. 2</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.agilitrix.com/2009/12/coaching-self-organizing-teams/">Coaching Self-Organizing Teams</a></li> </ul> <h4>Discount</h4> Register before Christmas for an early bird discount. Simon Roberts Simon Roberts Als Coach und Moderator unterstützt der ScrumMaster das Projektteam beim selbstorganisierten Arbeiten. Er weckt die Begeisterung für die Arbeit mit Scrum, hilft bei der besten Nutzung der Scrum-Prinzipien und hält dem Team den Rücken frei. Er fördert den Geschäftserfolg, indem er die Zusammenarbeit zwischen dem Product Owner, Kunden, Management und Team optimiert. Dieser Kurs bereitet Sie auf eine Arbeit als ScrumMaster vor. Neben einer Einführung in die Scrum-Prinzipien liegt der Fokus auf dem richtigen Mindset, der einen erfolgreichen Scrum Master ausmacht. <h3>Ziel</h3> Sie verstehen die Aufgaben des ScrumMaster und erhalten die Fähigkeit, Scrum in Ihrem Projektumfeld einzusetzen. Der Kurs vertieft die Prinzipien und Praktiken von Scrum. Er zeigt die Voraussetzungen und Änderungen auf, die notwendig sind, damit agiles Vorgehen und Scrum in Ihrem Unternehmen erfolgreich sein können.  Ab dem 1. Oktober 2009 müssen alle CSMs neben dem Training ein englischsprachiges Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) Online Certification Exam bestehen, um die Zertifizierung zu erhalten.  Die Ziele des Tests sind in den <a href="/resources/968">Exam Objectives</a> beschrieben, die <a href="/resource_download/922">Exam Administration and Retake Policy</a> erläutert die Vorgehensweise. Weitere Informationen finden Sie bei der <a href="/scrum_certification">Scrum Alliance</a>. Weitere Informationen über Scrum erhalten Sie hier: <a href="/pages/what_is_scrum">http://www.scrumalliance.org/pages/what_is_scrum</a> Der Kurs schließt eine einjährige Mitgliedschaft bei der Scrum Alliance ein. Weitere Informationen über das Zertifizierungsprogramm erhalten Sie hier: <a href="/training/">http://www.scrumalliance.org/training/</a> <div> </div>   Martine M. Devos Martine M. Devos Join world-leading Scrum expert Martine Devos for this fun, interactive 3-day workshop where you will learn a variety of practices and techniques to become a successful ScrumMaster and more! We will cover the fundamental principles of Scrum, qualifying you as a Certified ScrumMaster. More importantly, you will get the opportunity to learn to deal with the obstacles that confront Scrum teams and you will leave much better equipped to put Scrum in to practice and succeed with it. This three day class will add extra focus on long term planning (release, product) and supply participants with suggestions to work on mixed projects (more traditional environments) and large organizations. Pros and cons of advanced variants to agile project management including kanban and lean will be discussed and experienced in simulations. The three-day approach allows participants to share their own experience and concerns in extra exercises and Q&A sessions. The workshop will allow practice to be added to theory so that delegates have practical takeaways that can be used with co-workers upon return to work. Please note that this class is fast-paced and will focus on Estimation and Planning (for product, sprint and release) and Kanban (lean method). Certification: The course leads to ScrumMaster Certification which includes 2 years free membership to the Scrum Alliance where additional ScrumMaster-only material and information are available. In addition, PMI members can claim up to 21 PDUs upon completing this course. Based on her more than 15 years experience in the Agile community, Martine will be giving you insights and a depth of approach that is unique for this course. Bryan Stallings Bryan Stallings <h3>Course Overview</h3> SolutionsIQ Certified ScrumMaster Training gives you all the tools and information you need to get started with Scrum and Agile. Delivered by SolutionsIQ’s world-renowned Certified ScrumMaster Trainers, this course shares time-tested practices for managing Product Backlogs, planning your releases and iterations (Sprints), and tracking and reporting progress. You’ll learn how to lead Sprint Planning meetings, Daily Scrum meetings, Sprint Review meetings, Sprint Retrospectives, and much more. On successful course completion, participants are eligible for Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) status with the Scrum Alliance (www.scrumalliance.org). The course fee includes a one-year membership in the Scrum Alliance. <h3>Scrum Increases Team Productivity</h3> The leading and fastest-growing of the Agile methodologies, Scrum is a simple software project management framework that adheres to a small set of interrelated practices and rules, is not overly prescriptive, and is able to produce productivity gains for software development teams almost immediately. This agile, lightweight process effectively manages and controls software development through iterative, incremental practices. Scrum training will boost the capabilities of your Agile development team and positively impact projects for years to come. <h3>The SolutionsIQ Difference</h3> SolutionsIQ has proven expertise in applying Agile methodology to the development of cutting-edge software. Our Agile consulting practice grew organically out of our Agile development capability. Because Agile and Scrum are so much a part of the way SolutionsIQ operates, we have more Certified ScrumMasters and Certified Scrum Trainers than any other Agile consulting and training organization. Our Agile coaches and trainers are unique in the industry in that they continue as Agile practitioners working on client projects. Our consultants help organizations understand how to apply Agile through examples and real-world experiences, and our pragmatic approach allows participants to immediately leverage proven tools and techniques to boost performance. Mike Cohn Mike Cohn <h3>Effective User Stories for Agile Requirements</h3> Projects start with their requirements. How those requirements are documented or expressed has a tremendous influence on the rest of the project. User stories originated in the agile processes but are useful even if you are not planning to use an agile process. The technique of expressing requirements as user stories is one of the most broadly applicable techniques introduced by the agile processes. However, user stories are an effective approach on all time-constrained projects. In this course, we will look at how to identify and write good user stories. We’ll see the six attributes all good stories must exhibit and present thirteen guidelines for writing better stories. We will explore how user role modeling can help when gathering a project’s initial stories. During this hands-on course we will have the opportunity to practice identifying user roles and writing stories on a case study. <h3>You Will Learn</h3> <ul> <li>The six attributes of a good story and how to achieve them</li> <li>A useful template for writing user stories</li> <li>Practical techniques for gathering user stories</li> <li>How much work to do up-front and how much to do just-in-time</li> </ul> <h3>Guarantee</h3> We are so confident that you will benefit from our training that we offer a 100% money back guarantee. If you aren’t satisfied with the training you received, contact us within thirty days to receive a full refund of the registration fee, no questions asked. <h3>Combine This Class With Other Training </h3> This class will be followed by a <a href="/courses/20093337-certified-scrummaster">Certified ScrumMaster</a> class and an <a href="/courses/20093338-agile-estimating-and-planning">Agile Estimating and Planning</a> class in the same location. You can attend these classes separately or together. <h3>What You Get </h3> <ul> <li>High quality training from an industry expert</li> <li>A continental breakfast buffet, a hot lunch buffet, an afternoon snack, and continuously replenished drinks</li> <li>A printed and bound copy of the course materials</li> </ul> <h3>Onsite</h3> Don’t see a date and location you like? Want to train a team or department without the hassle of travel? This course is available for onsite delivery. Contact Mike Cohn at (720) 890-6110 or by e-mail at <a href="mailto:mike@mountaingoatsoftware.com?subject=Onsite%20Effective%20User%20Stories%20for%20Agile%20Requirements%20class">Contact Mike Cohn</a> <h3>Brochure</h3> <a href="http://www.mountaingoatsoftware.com/system/hidden_asset/file/170/user-stories-for-agile-requirements.pdf">Download</a> a PDF brochure with additional information. <h3>Refund Policy</h3> A full refund will be provided if you cancel or transfer your registration to a different event no later than five business days prior to the start of the class. If you cancel or transfer within five business days you will be charged $150 per class. <h3>Professional Development Units (PDUs) </h3> PMPs: You can receive 7.5 PDUs for this course.  <img src="http://beta.mountaingoatsoftware.com/system/hidden_asset/file/173/PMI.jpg" alt="" />   Alan E. Cyment Alan E. Cyment El objetivo principal del curso Certiﬁed Scrum Master es introducir de manera vivencial los principios fundamentales de la metodología ágil de mayor adopción en la industria. Desde el punto de vista pedagógico, las metodologías ágiles constituyen un desafío mayúsculo, dado que comparten con juegos como el ajedrez la paradoja del aprendizaje práctico: las reglas se explican en minutos, pero el verdadero aprendizaje se realiza únicamente mediante su utilización. Este curso logra, en solamente dos días, entusiasmar y formar al asistente, haciéndolo partícipe de su propio aprendizaje. Tobias Fors Tobias Fors The course is held in Swedish and use examples and cases from the Swedish industry. Joe Little Joe Little This course will be led by Joe Little and Catherine Louis.  Joe is an experienced Agile Coach and Scrum Trainer.  He co-teaches regularly with Jeff Sutherland and other great Scrum trainers.  He has a CSM, CSP, CST and an MBA. Catherine is an experienced agile coach and top agile transformation manager for a large global firm.  She as 20+ years in telecom.   Participants Will Learn: <ul> <li>Practical, project-proven practices</li> <li>The essentials of getting a project off on the right foot</li> <li>How to write user stories for the product backlog</li> <li>Why there's more to leading a self-organizing team than buying pizza and getting out of the way</li> <li>How to help both new and experienced teams be more successful</li> <li>How to successfully scale Scrum to large, multi-continent projects with team sizes in the hundreds</li> <li>Tips and tricks from the instructors' years of using Scrum in a wide variety of situations</li> </ul> In this course, we typically mix in XP and Lean ideas.  Having worked recently with Jeff Sutherland, we mix in many of his ideas and stories.  Having a business background and MBA, this course is perhaps somewhat more oriented toward Product Owners and business issues. WORKSHOP:  Following the 2-day CSM course, we will conduct a 2-day workshop to get your team started using Scrum.  This includes Release Planning and either a Sprint Planning Meeting (or a mock SPM).  If you are only interested in the CSM course, please contact us for a reduced rate.   Additional Information: The course will run from 9am-5pm each day. You will need to arrive by 8:30am on the first day. A continental breakfast, breaks and lunch will be provided. Following successful completion of the course and passing of the CSM EXam, a participant will be enrolled as a Certified ScrumMaster.  As the CSM Exam is in beta for the next few months, everyone who takes it will pass. Participants will also receive a one-year membership in the Scrum Alliance, where additional ScrumMaster-only material and information are available. Course Material: Participants will receive course materials (not books) at the course. The CSM course was formulated to train and certify ScrumMasters and is used worldwide for ScrumMaster training. In addition, participants should obtain (at their own expense) Agile Project Management with Scrum, by Ken Schwaber, which is required reading for the course. You may also wish to obtain the primary Scrum book, Agile Software Development with SCRUM by Schwaber and Beedle, on which the course is based. Of course, there will be updated material and training exercises in the course which you cannot get from books. The entire syllabus will be made available upon registering for the course so you can look it over and bring it with you to the sessions.