ABOUT THE COURSE

Course Description

This hands-on, interactive two-day course will teach you:

• How to be an effective Scrum Master
• Improve teamwork
• Launch products sooner
• Improve engineering practices to deliver high-quality products

Upon successful completion of this course, each participant will be enrolled as a Certified ScrumMaster, which includes a one-year Scrum Alliance membership, where additional ScrumMaster-only material and information is available.

Attendees will be served lunch, morning and afternoon team and receive a bound copy of the training materials.

Audience

Applicable to all levels and roles including Managers, Designers, Developers, Testers, Executives, Project Managers and IT.

Recommended reading

No prior knowledge of Scrum or Agile methods is required although some prior reading is recommended. A good getting started guide can be found at http://www.scrumprimer.com

Class Agenda

Introduction

• Overview of Methodologies
• Exercise; empirical learning
• Agile Manifesto
• Agile Values
• History of Scrum
• Exercise: The offsite customer

Scrum 101

• Scrum Overview
• Roles and responsibilities
• Scrum team
• Product Owner
• ScrumMaster

• One-pager
• Product Backlog creation
• User Stories (requirements)
• Exercise: User Story writing

Scrum In-depth

• The Sprint
• Sprint Planning
• Exercise: Sprint Planning
• Tracking Progress
• Daily Scrum
• Exercise: Running a Daily meeting
• Sprint Review
• Sprint Retrospective

The ScrumMaster role:

• Exercise: Great ScrumMaster scenarios
• Exercise: Scrum simulation

Optional modules:

• Scaling Scrum
• Distributed Scrum

ABOUT THE CERTIFICATION

ABOUT THE INSTRUCTORS

Pete Deemer is a Certified Scrum Trainer offering courses through the Scrum Training Institute.  Pete headed Yahoo!’s large-scale corporate adoption of Scrum, which now encompasses more than 200 projects and over 2000 employees in the US, India, Europe, and Asia.  He is co-author of The Scrum Primer (www.scrumprimer.com).

Pete is an honors graduate of Harvard University, and has spent the last 18 years building software and web products at global companies.  Pete spent a number of years as adjunct faculty at University of California Berkeley, most recently in the Graduate School of Business, where he received the prestigious Club 6 teaching award.

Pete provides training to a number of companies, including HP, Microsoft, Nokia, Infosys, Wipro, IBM.  During his Yahoo! tenure, he served as Vice President of Product Development for Yahoo! in the US, as well as Chief Product Officer of Yahoo!'s 1000-person Research and Development center in Bangalore, India. Pete is based in India and Singapore.

Gabrielle Benefield is a Certified Scrum Trainer offering courses in the United States, Europe, Australia and New Zealand through the Scrum Training Institute.  Gabrielle was Senior Director of Agile Development at Yahoo! leading Yahoo!’s large-scale corporate adoption of Scrum, which now encompasses more than 200 teams projects and over 1500 employees in the US, India, Europe, and Asia.  She is co-author of The Scrum Primer (www.scrumprimer.com).

Gabrielle holds a Masters of Digital Design from the University of Western Sydney, Australia and has over 16 years building enterprise software and web products at global companies.  Gabrielle is a regular conference speaker presenting papers and talks on Enterprise Agile and Agile User Experience and Design.

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