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CSD - Accelerating Agile Dev for Scrum Teams (1812)

Taught by: Eshan Chawla
Stand out from the crowd with a certification that proves your knowledge and understanding of the scrum framework. The CSD® course is delivered by world-class trainers who have been extensively evaluated and vetted as leaders in technical practices, scrum, and agility. Successful completion of this course includes a two-year professional membership with Scrum Alliance and a globally recognized certification badge.
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 Start April 6, 2016 CUT
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1801 Rockville Pike, 2nd Floor, Rockville, MD 20852, US

Schedule Details

Wednesday, April 6 | 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM CUT
Thursday, April 7 | 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM CUT
Friday, April 8 | 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM CUT

Scrum and Agile software development is often embraced by organizations not fully adapted for it. In this Scrum-focused Agile training course, you learn how to use Scrum and apply Agile development methodology to drive progress by resolving impediments and creating high-performing, self-managed teams.

You Will Learn How To:

  • Resolve organizational issues that impede your Agile teams' development
  • Build high-performing teams for more valuable software delivery
  • Avoid "story card hell" through effective backlog management
  • Minimize waste using Lean principles
  • Apply Scrum to portfolio management and multiple team projects

Active Learning Workshop:

  • Identifying bad "smells" to better focus a Scrum Master's Team improvement initiatives
  • Simulating a requirements workshop for ATDD
  • Prioritizing the resolution of impediments
  • Mapping external dependencies to facilitate self-managing Teams
  • Forming assessments of your organization's agility

Standard Price: $2,650.00
Returning Learning Tree Customer Price: $2,385.00
GSA/Government New Attendee Price: $2,355.00Returning GSA/Government Customer Price: $2,120.00

Reviewing Agile Development and the Scrum Framework

  • Realizing the strategic role of the Product Owner
  • Treating the Product Backlog order as the critical path
  • Building better processes through Scrum

Growing Agile Teams with Proper Methodology

Developing coaching skills

  • Applying different Agile coaching styles
  • Climbing the Shu-Ha-Ri ladder of attainment
  • Practicing servant-leadership

Achieving continuous improvement

  • Prioritizing business value as the primary concern
  • Emphasizing Scrum's self-management versus the approach of other Agile methodologies

Organizing around value-driven software

  • Reinforcing the strategic role of the Product Owner
  • Ordering the Product Backlog dynamically to determine the project's critical path
  • Sniffing out bad "smells" in Scrum Teams

Delivering High Performance with Agile Team Training

Employing advanced team practices

  • Distilling requirements with Acceptance Test Driven Development (ATDD)
  • Designing products through Test Driven Development (TDD)
  • Integrating functional increments continuously

Scaling Agile development

  • Coordinating the work of multiple teams
  • Applying Continuous Integration (CI) for large projects

Accelerating organizational change

  • Exposing dysfunctions in the software development process
  • Driving change through the Scrum Master role

Managing Backlogs

Prioritizing product requirements

  • Separating concerns with value propositions
  • Organizing Epics and Stories
  • Story-Mapping to visualize backlog

Slicing and dicing Stories

  • Planning releases with Minimal Marketable Features (MMF)
  • Characterizing a well-formed Product Backlog
  • Avoiding "Story Card Hell"

Streamlining Team Progress with Lean Thinking

Maximizing the amount of "work not done"

  • Thinking Lean to eliminate waste
  • Comparing Lean and Kanban to Scrum
  • Identifying opportunities to eliminate rework

Implementing Lean thinking

  • Prioritizing resources with Agile portfolio management
  • Visualizing throughput with Cumulative Flow Diagrams
  • Reallocating resources to eliminate bottlenecks

Improving and Measuring Team Performance

Assessing agility

  • Measuring the delivery of business value
  • Defining team performance
  • Selecting metrics that support self-management

Implementing improvement through Agile development process

  • Creating Improvement Backlogs
  • Tracking the removal of impediments
  • Developing a momentum for success

Planning for External Dependencies

Resourcing projects

  • Integrating contractors into Scrum teams
  • Outsourcing to third parties
  • Running geographically dispersed teams

Relating to external constraints

  • Mapping external dependencies
  • Addressing the slow-moving infrastructure team issue
  • Working with deployment teams

Generalizing Scrum in the Wider Organization

Scaling Scrum

  • Gaining support for Scrum
  • Creating Agility assessments
  • Addressing impediments at the enterprise level

Anyone interested in Agile development, methodology or processes who needs Scrum-focused Agile training. This includes IT managers, project managers, business analysts, software developers, QA specialists and anyone involved in or impacted by the software development process.

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