This class is taught by a Certified Scrum Trainer but is not a certification course.

Course Description

This special one-day version of Mike Cohn's popular, advanced two-day class picks up where ScrumMaster and other introductory agile courses end. Go beyond the basics and learn tips and techniques necessary to help an organization move from initial success to sustained agility. Drawing and expanding on concepts in Mike Cohn’s Succeeding with Agile book, this course help you continue your agile journey when faced with harsh project realities.

Covered are topics such as establishing and leading self-organizing teams, effective teamwork during the sprint, integrating quality, scaling Scrum to hundreds of developers, applying Scrum on a globally distributed team, being agile while meeting regulatory compliance requirements, enlisting the human resources and facilities groups as allies, and measuring and proving the benefits of Scrum.

Too many agile adoptions falter when teams and organizations encounter obstacles they do not know how to overcome. This course offers the tools you need to guide your team or organization through the rough patches and tough challenges toward an atmosphere of sustained agility.

PMPs: This course counts for 7.5 Professional Development Units.

You Will Learn

• How the same process used to start the transition effort can be used to spread agile or Scrum across the enterprise.
• Everything you need to know to be successful with large and distributed teams.
• How the roles of project managers, functional managers, programmers, testers, data professionals, architects, analysts, and others change with agile.
• How to incorporate technical design, interaction design, and architecture into agile projects.
• How to encourage improvement communities to form and drive the hard work of organizational change.
• How to work with other departments in the organization to reinforce and retain the changes an agile process brings.
• Tips and tricks from the instructor’s fifteen years of using Scrum in a wide variety of environments.

Combine This Class with Other Training

This class will be preceded by a Certified ScrumMaster class and followed by a Certified Scrum Product Owner class in the same location. You can attend these classes separately or together.

What You Get

• High quality training from an industry expert
• Fruit in the morning, sandwiches mid-morning, a lunch buffet, an afternoon snack, and drinks
• A printed and bound copy of the course materials

Onsite

Don’t see a date and location you like? Want to train a team or department without the hassle of travel? This class is available for onsite delivery. Contact Mike Cohn at (720) 890-6110 or by e-mail at mike@mountaingoatsoftware.com.

Brochure

Download a PDF brochure with additional information.

Professional Development Units (PDUs)

PMPs: You can receive 7.5 PDUs for this course. 

• Think Holistically, Work Incrementally
  • Architecture and design
  • Interaction design

• Team Structure
  • Feature vs. component teams
  • Guidelines

• Teamwork
  • The role of specialists
  • Fostering team learning
  • Integrate testing into each sprint
  • The proper way to pay off debt

• Leading Self-Organizing Teams
  • Containers, Differences and Exchanges
  • Seven Levers for Influence

• Scaling
  • Proactively manage dependencies

• Coordinating work among team
  • Scaling sprint planning
  • Communicating across teams

• Distributed Teams
  • Decide how to distribute
  • Create coherence
  • When to get together in person
  • Change how you communicate
  • How to handle meetings

• Coexisting
  • Mixing Scrum and Waterfall
  • Governance and compliance
  • Human resources
  • Facilities
  • The Project Management Office

• Measuring and proving the Benefits
  • How agile are we?
  • A balanced scorecard

This advanced course is suited for anyone who has previously attended an introductory agile or Scrum training course, such as a Certified ScrumMaster or Certified Scrum Product Owner class. It is also appropriate for anyone with prior agile experience who is looking for answers to the hundreds of questions that arise during any agile adoption.