Certified ScrumMaster

Martine Devos' ScrumMaster Certification and Estimation Class

All CSM courses are taught by Certified Scrum Trainers. Taking a CSM course, passing the CSM test, and accepting the license agreement designates you as a Certified ScrumMaster, which indicates that you have been introduced to and understand the basic concepts you need to perform as a ScrumMaster or team member on a Scrum team. This course also satisfies two elements of the CSD track: Scrum Introduction and Elective.



Martine Devos' two day ScrumMaster and Estimation class will teach you the fundamental principles of Scrum, qualifying you as a Certified ScrumMaster. Leading a Scrum team is radically different to traditional project management. Rather than plan, instruct, and direct, the leader of a Scrum team (called a ScrumMaster) facilitates, coaches and leads.

In this intensive and highly interactive workshop, you will learn to deal with the obstacles that confront Scrum teams. You will also put theory into practise through a variety of exercises and take-aways to use with co-workers. 

Upon successful completion of the course, you will be enrolled as a Certified ScrumMaster. This includes a two-year Scrum Alliance membership, where additional ScrumMaster-only material and information is available.

More importantly, upon completion of this workshop you'll leave with an understanding of Scrum and how to put it into practise and succeed with it. You will be able to share your experience with your colleagues and help your teams xecute Scrum efficiently and productively. Delegates will also receive a copy of Succeeding with Agile: Software Development Using Scrum during the course.

PMI members can claim up to 14 PDU's upon completion of this course.

IMPORTANT: CHANGES TO CSM CERTIFICATION
Effective 1 October 2009,the criteria for achieving Scrum Master Certification will change. As well as completing a Certified ScrumMaster course, all CSMs will also be required to pass a Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) online certification exam to maintain certification.
 Full details can be found here.


LEARN HOW TO:
  • Apply practical approaches to increasing productivity, while increasing Product Owner and management satisfaction
  • Learn from feedback and run engaging retrospectives
  • Explore techniques for applying Scrum to large and distributed teams
  • Use Scrum and corporate governance and quality models
  • Deal with the obstructions to high productivity on your Scrum team, such as:
    • Incomplete stories at Sprint-end
    • Estimation in Storypoints and Hours (Release Planning and Sprint Planning), estimating bugs and maintenance work
    • Technical debt and legacy problems
    • Obscure "technical" backlog items or user stories
    • Sprints with lengthy analysis and time-consuming testing
Dates:

15-16 Sep 2011
Location:

London, United Kingdom

Venue:

Skills Matter
116-120 Goswell Road
London, United Kingdom EC1V 7DP
http://skillsmatter.com/go/home

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Price:

1095

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Introduction

  • Agile Values, Scrum Benefits and Origins
  • Scrum and Change
  • Companies Using Scrum

Scrum Process and Roles

  • Scrum Flow, Iterative-incremental Software Development and Shippable Product Increments
  • Scrum Roles: ScrumMaster, Product Owner, Team
  • Characteristics of the ScrumMaster
  • A Day in the Life of the ScrumMaster
  • The ScrumMaster Role including Conflict Management, Appraisals and Appointing the ScrumMaster
  • The Role of the Team including Team Dynamics, Team Norms and the Visual Workplace
  • The Role of Project Managers and Functional Managers in Scrum
Requirements
  • Understanding the Customer
  • The Product Vision
  • The Product Backlog
  • Determining the Release Scope
  • Stocking the Product Backlog
  • Prioritization Techniques
  • Refining the Product Backlog
  • User Stories on the Product Backlog

Release Management

  • Sustainable Pace
  • The Project Levers
  • Defining and Communicating Project Success
  • Release Management Strategies
  • Estimation and Planning, Product Backlog Items Using Story Points and Planning Poker
  • Choosing the Sprint Length and Determining Velocity
  • Creating the Release Plan
  • Tracking the Project Progress

Sprint Management

  • Sprint Workflow and Characteristics
  • Formulating Powerful Sprint Goals
  • Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review and Retrospective
  • Sprint Estimation and Planning
  • Daily Scrum
  • Understanding the Sprint Progress
  • Sprint Reporting
Portfolio Management
  • The Planning Onion
  • Why Portfolio Management Matters
  • Levelling the Demand
  • Portfolio Management Steps
  • The Portfolio Bubble Chart
Large and Distributed Scrum Projects
  • Brook’s Law
  • Organic Growth and Conway’s Law
  • Master Product Backlog and the Product Owner Team
  • Team Set-up
  • Multi-team Planning and Coordination
  • Shared Norms and Assets
  • Distributed Scrum Project Tips

Getting Started in Scrum

  • Just Do It
  • The Nature of Change
  • Scrum Adoption Stages
  • Change Practices including the Enterprise Transition Team and the Transition Product Backlog
  • Deming’s PDCA Cycle
  • The Role of Consultants

Practical Games and Exercises

Exercises, case studies, and examples are used to assist participants to develop the knowledge, skills, capabilities and insights needed to make the shift from traditional management practice to the Scrum approach.

Project manager, Team Leader, IT/development manager, Product manager, Business analyst, Architect or developer interested in applying Scrum to maximise value creation, improve customer and employee satisfaction as well as engineering practices and tools.