Extended Education

CMMI and Scrum with Kent Johnson

The goal of this one day course is to help ScrumMasters obtain the knowledge to effectively use Scrum with CMMI. This course will run 9:00 am to 5:00 pm the day following the Scrum Training Institute’s standard two day Certified ScrumMaster course and will build on the lessons learned in the first two days.

Scrum and CMMI are often at odds with each other. What does each approach bring to the table? Scrum promotes the idea of focusing on the most important product issues first and supports frequent communication. CMMI brings a structure that promotes consistency and discipline to avoid waste and rework. So, why should we try to combine both approaches? Is this combination a good idea?

Scrum is a systematic, repeatable way of doing things – important for CMMI. A good Scrum implementation supports areas important to a good CMMI implementation, including project management, engineering, organizational change, code review, continuous integration, and automated testing in the build process.

Introducing Scrum into an organization is fraught with impediments. Additional impediments occur when striving for hyperproductive Scrum. We explain how using the CMMI’s enterprise focus has addressed many of these impediments.

In this course, participants will learn how:

• a lightweight CMMI implementation can move Scrum to hyperproductivity
• a well-defined Scum implementation can move an organization through the CMMI levels.

Team exercises will build on the exercises from the first two days of the Certified ScrumMaster course and will cover:

• enterprise implementation of Scrum
• training the team
• using checklists to reach hyperproductivity.

This course is intended for individuals that have attended Scrum Training Institute’s standard two day Certified ScrumMaster course including managers, team members, and process engineers in organizations developing and maintaining software-intensive systems.  Of course, anyone is welcome to attend!