Certified ScrumDeveloper Track

Agile Project Management

All courses on the Certified Scrum Developer track are taught by Registered Education Providers. For more information on the curriculum for the CSD credential, visit http://www.scrumalliance.org/pages/certified_scrum_developer.

• This course fulfills the technical elective requirement on the Certified Scrum Developer track.

In this course, you will learn how to:

• Embrace a model of continuous planning over simply following a plan
• Transform your project management style from “command and control” to “empower and inspire” with your team
• Create a cadence for the team and eliminate process distractions for a dramatic boost in efficiency
• Establish credible and achievable estimates using agile estimating techniques
• Communicate more transparently and reduce interruptions to your team
• Rapidly build trust with your customers through frequent and effective collaboration

Immediate Benefits of Participating in this Workshop:

1. Understand Agile principles and practices that will transform team performance and improve customer satisfaction
2. Acquire valuable insights into how you can “empower and inspire” your team
3. Gain insight on how to establish transparency in communication inside the team as well as with customers
4. Learn how to develop teams into high-performance teams; they will deliver amazing results for customers!
5. Through hands-on practice, gain powerful skills using estimating techniques that will allow you to derive estimates quickly and more accurately
6. Uncover the mystery of how the team can be more accurate by being less precise
7. Combine best methods from multiple Agile methodologies to apply to your team
8. Appreciate why knowing and collaborating with your customer will ALWAYS produce better results
9. Build trust with your team and your customer through consistent cadence of “common sense” best practices
10. Establish a plan for incorporating Agile practices into your specific work area
11. Recognize and avoid the pitfalls teams fall into when adopting agile practices
12. Gain powerful insights, techniques and skills to successfully coach a new or existing agile team
13. Learn how to establish and communicate appropriate expectations for your team, including roles, responsibilities and accountability
14. React to and respond to change quickly and effectively seize competitive advantage for your customer
15. Understand and practice a model of continuous planning
16. Gain and maintain trust between your development team and your customer through a highly transparent prioritization practice
17. Convert prioritization of requirements from a point solution to a continuously evolving part of the development process
18. Learn why studies have shown Agile teams are significantly happier with their work – make this a reality for YOUR team

For more information, please visit: http://www.aspe-sdlc.com/courses/4170/

This course is designed for anyone who is considering the use of an Agile methodology for software development, including: