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

Scrum Bookends - Advanced Session

·   Planning ·   Retrospectives ·   Demo

Why?

When Agile is criticized as impractical because “it only thinks one sprint at a time,”  teams are not putting effective bookends around their sprints.  The “bookends” of Scrum are Sprint Planning and the Sprint Review.  The importance of these meetings are critical to agile success, and yet many teams trivialize them. 

The result:  teams either fail to deliver in the context of strategic goals, or they fall back into top-down, “chain of command” behavior.  

The agile community recognizes these issues and is increasingly focused on techniques and skills around these planning, product demonstration, and team retrospective meetings.  Application of these skills is increasingly being seen as critical for success.

It takes most teams many months of working together to discover and apply these skills.  This course is geared at helping you cut down the learning curve by rapidly acquiring these agile techniques through an intense immersion experience.

By incorporating techniques used successfully in product development efforts with teams as large as 80, and across numerous industry verticals, attendees will be better equipped to connect sprints into a smooth flow of project work and deliver on the promise of agile adaptation.

Dates:

5 Sep 2008
Location:

Pewaukee, WI

Venue:

Country Springs Hotel
2810 Golf Road
Pewaukee, WI 53072

Price:

625

Notes:

Prerequisites

·       Participants should have some familiarity with Agile, either by attending beginner Agile training or through some practical Agile experience.

·       Participants should be prepared to review the problem domain background material prior to attending the session.

Specific Event Details

  • Morning and Afternoon breaks will be served
  • Parking is free and conveniently located right outside 
  • Lunch will be served
  • Special questions please contact Mary
  • This event is onsite at the hotel

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Course Parameters

Length:         1 day

Size:             Class will be strictly limited to a minimum of 5 and a maximum of 21 participants.

Goals

During the session, participants will leverage their personal experience to understand powerful techniques, and sharpen practical skills on the following topics: Leveraging natural rhythms in your team’s environment

  • Connecting sprints together to achieve “long-term” gains
  • Tapping the power of the Scrum framework to navigate extreme complexity
  • Planning
  • Product plans which balance strategic and tactical views
  • Creating plans from “non-agile” sources
  • Building ROI in easy to track steps
  • Using stories to maintain team focus
  • Sprint plans which adapt to emerging situations
  • Balancing the needs of the sprint, the team, the product, and the organization
  • The importance of the Product Demo
  • Pulling critical business involvement to validate the team’s work
  • Driving speed and quality
  • Building trust and enthusiasm with stakeholders
  • Techniques for Retrospectives
  • Helping the team take ownership of its process
  • Engaging teams awareness to foster self-organization
  • Letting Agile drive architecture instead of the other way around
  • Nurturing emergent behaviors to build Well-Formed Teams

Attendees will create work products (agile plans and retrospective reports) and use multiple tools during the session.   

As a take-away, these work products and tools will be available to the students after the session, along with two whitepapers relevant to the topics covered.

Who Should Attend

This course is for people who have some background in agile project work. It is intended to help experienced agile practitioners focus on the difficult challenges of tuning aspects of their agile implementation:

  • Scrum course students (e.g. attendees of “Certified ScrumMaster”) desiring a "deep dive" into techniques for more effective Sprints
  • ScrumMasters who wish to improve their team's sprint planning effectiveness
  • Agile development team members who want to work better as a team
  • Project managers who want to integrate agile plans with their organization's traditional project management needs
  • Product Owners seeking better visibility into the strategic view of their product being developed