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Certified ScrumMaster®

Taught by: Clinton Keith

Learn how to apply scrum and gain practical agile skills to drive results in any role, whether you want to work as a scrum master or grow your capabilities. CSM® courses are delivered by Scrum Alliance-certified trainers who possess deep scrum knowledge. When you complete the course, you will receive a two-year Scrum Alliance professional membership.

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Jul 27 - 28, 2017 |

9:00 AM UTC |

8 hrs/day

Course details

Location

In-Person

138-142 Holborn, London EC1N 2NQ, GB

Course

Certified ScrumMaster for Video Game Development

This two-day course not only provides the fundamental principles of Scrum, it also gives participants hands-on experience applying Scrum to video game development.

This course puts theory into action through extensive use of exercise and a project simulation. All exercises and discussions are specifically tailored for those working in video game development. During the course, attendees will learn why such a seemingly simple process as Scrum can have such profound effects on a studio. Participants gain practical experience working with Scrum tools and activities such as the product backlog, sprint backlog, daily Scrum meetings, sprint planning meeting, and burndown charts. Participants leave knowing how to apply Scrum to all sizes of projects, from a single collocated team to a large, highly distributed team. Attendees learn how to fulfil the role of ScrumMaster, guiding game teams to higher levels of accountability and performance.

They will leave the course able to:
Facilliate all Scrum roles, artifacts and practices.
Coach both new start and experienced teams be more successful
Avoid the barriers to adopting Scrum in a video game development environment.
Help producers, artists, designers, testers and programmers work together effectively

Participants who successfully complete the course and follow-up test, will become Certified ScrumMasters through the Scrum Alliance and receive a two-year membership in the organization where additional ScrumMaster-only material and information are available.

ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR

Clinton Keith is an independent agile coach and Certified Scrum Trainer who introduced the game industry to Scrum in 2003 and Lean/Kanban in 2006. Clinton has trained and coached over 200 teams at over 100 game development studios and is the author of "Agile Game Development with Scrum”.

Clint's workshops and courses train developers from many disciplines, including artist, designers and engineers to work best together effectively in an agile environment.

Agenda

Overview of Scrum
• Why Scrum works for video game development
• What game development problems are we trying to address?

Sprints
• Planning, executing, reviewing and retrospecting sprints for a cross-discipline group
• How artists, designers, programmers, testers, all work effectively together

The Scrum Master
• The role and responsibilities of the Scrum Master as an agent of change

The product owner
• The role and responsibilities of the Product Owner as the vision holder

The Development Team
• How developers can safely take on more ownership and accountability and become engaged

Product backlog
• How to create effective product backlogs
• What good user stories look like.
• The definition of ready and done

Measuring progress
• Measuring sprint and product development progress more effectively
• Avoiding the problems of measuring the wrong thing

Agile project management
• How to plan and run live and pre-shipping game development projects
• Applying Kanban to production/content creation
• How to apply Scrum to large and distributed teams (including outsourcing)

Integrating agile with your organization
• The tools for integrating agile and overcoming obstacles
• Creating a culture of trust, engagement and passion for “finding the fun” in our games.
• Avoiding the pitfalls other studios have encountered adopting agile

Who should attend

This two-day course not only provides the fundamental principles of Scrum, it also gives participants hands-on experience applying Scrum to video game development.

This course is aimed at anyone interested in starting a Scrum project or wishing to improve their current Scrum implementation within a gaming or app development environment. Naturally intended for those taking on the ScrumMaster role, it is equally useful for any Scrum team member.

Prerequisites:
This course has no pre-requisites although we recommend you read the Scrum Guide prior to attending this course. Scrum is defined completely in the Scrum Guide by Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland, the originators of Scrum.

Reviews

4.86 out of 5.0 stars

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The whole workshop training was amazing, hope we do more!

I thought this instructor did an amazing job. However, I felt like it was on the high end of cost.

Relevant exercises and examples, time managed well and to-the-point focus.

Clear communication, presentation and workshop materials are polished, great instructor. Especially for all things game industry, would 100% recommend taking a course with Clinton.Clinton does an amazing job not only conveying the course information in an interactive and interesting way, but also takes the time to ensure that discussion covers how it relates back to your specific reality. He gets your gears turning on what steps to take next with your own team and is incredible at answering questions and understanding how incredibly varied different teams can be.

The scrum training that Clinton provided was great. We really benefitted from his actual game dev experiences as it made training, best practices and discussions more relatable.

I loved the hands-on learning techniques employed, the presentation was also very engaging

Clinton was the perfect instructor for our teams here at SciPlay. His expertise in Scrum combined with his industry experience made the training relevant to our attendees. I can't recommend him highly enough!

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