Course Summary
This two day Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) course is led by Co-Creator of Scrum, Jeff Sutherland. It covers the fundamentals of Scrum and Agile methods through to planning and managing your project. The agenda covers the Scrum framework meetings such as the daily scrum, Sprint planning and the retrospective.
It will show you how to effectively track your project using burn-down charts and how to measure velocity for release planning.
Duration
2 days.
Objectives
This hands-on, interactive two-day Scrum Training course will teach you:
- How to be an effective Scrum Master
- Improve teamwork
- Launch products sooner
- Improve engineering practices to deliver high-quality products
Audience
Scrum Training is applicable to all levels and roles including Managers, Designers, Developers, Testers, Executives, Project Managers and IT.
No prior knowledge of Scrum or Agile methods is required although some prior reading is recommended. Scrum Primer is a great guide to get started.
Additional Notes
Following this Scum training course, each participant is enrolled as a Certified ScrumMaster, which includes a one-year membership in the Scrum Alliance, where additional Certified ScrumMaster-only material and information are available.
Participants will receive the course materials in a printed and bound handout. Lunch, snacks and drinks will be served.
About Your Instructors
Jeff Sutherland started the first Scrum at Easel Corporation in 1993 and worked with Scrum Co-Creator Ken Schwaber, to formalize the Scrum development process at OOPSLA’95. In the same year, Sutherland provided Kent Beck background information on the creation of Scrum to help him create eXtreme Programming. XP engineering practices then evolved along with SCRUM and the two leading Agile development processes work well together. Scrum and XP are the most widely used Agile processes worldwide and their creators are authors of the Agile Manifesto.
Jeff is CEO of Scrum, Inc. and Senior Advisor to OpenView Investment Partners.
Jens Østergaard has spent more than 20 years as a developer, DBA, team manager, project manager and ScrumMaster, developing software primarily in financial services organizations. Østergaard was the world’s first certified CSM/Practitioner, and has led a number of highly successful Scrum projects. Østergaard has a Bachelor of Science in Systems Analysis from Linköping University, Sweden.
Gabrielle Benefield has been very successful at organizational change, specializing in enterprise level transformation leading large teams at CollabNet, IBM and currently for Yahoo! She leads the Agile rollout at Yahoo! with over 100 teams using Agile methods worldwide. She is a certified Scrum Trainer, Scrum Master and Practitioner, and holds an MA in Digital Media.
Bass Vodde is an experienced coach in agile methods and especially Scrum. He's also a certified Scrum master trainer. Next to Scrum, he trains and coaches teams in TDD, retrospective and agile planning. Bas is the author of the Scaling Agile and Lean Development: Thinking and Organizational Tools for Large-Scale Scrum and of "Practices for Large-Scale Agile and Lean Development", both together with Craig Larman.
Jim ("Cope") Coplien is the father of Organizational Patterns, is one of the founders of the Software Pattern discipline, a pioneer in practical object-oriented design in the early 1990s and is a widely consulted authority, author, and trainer in the areas of software design and organizational improvements.
Roger Brown is an independent Agile Coach who provides training, consulting and coaching services in Agile software development areas including Scrum project management, enterprise agile adoption. Roger also does training and mentoring in agile engineering practices such as Test-Driven Development, automated acceptance testing and continuous integration. Roger is focused on helping companies and individuals find their own best approaches to the use of agile methods.
*To learn which instructor will be teaching your class, please select the desired class date.
Agile Meetup Group Organized by Marakana
Marakana team organizes and runs the San Francisco Agile Meetup - an interactive group of Android developers. In our monthly meetings, we discuss Agile & Scrum landscape from both technology and business angles. We often have great presentations by industry experts and group discussions. If you are in San Francisco Bay Area, we encourage you to join the group and meet other Agile progressionals.
Outline
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
Requirements Management
- 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
Course Testimonials
Overall a very good course
Jens is an excellent Scrum instructor. His class is thoroughly engaging and filled with insight based on real-world experience. Think your Scrum implementation is good? Jens can make it even better!
An awesome eye-opener. Everyone responsible for software development ROI should take this class and learn why Scrum is the way to make the most out of your development organization -- from both a quality and cost-savings standpoint.
Bas and Jeff were a delight. Bas has a VERY dry wit, but he is very effective in his delivery. Jeff's hands-on knowledge is unsurpassed. What a treat to learn about the essence of scrum from its co-creator.
This class was fantastic. It was the best exposure to what a ScrumMaster is all about and what it isn't. "Team...what do you think?" Thanks Jim!!
Jeff is amazing. He inspired me so much that, I was waiting for Monday to go back to my team and implement the ideas I have learned in the class. This is probably the best learning I took in the recent years. Worth it.
Jeff Sutherland and Bas Vodde bring their experiences and stories from years of Scrum Training & Consulting around the world to this course. As they intersperse these stories with the teaching, the Agile and Scrum topics come alive.
Very cool to meet Jeff and sasa...
