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.
Instructors
Gabrielle Benefield is the Sr Director of Agile Development at Yahoo! with over 170 Scrum teams worldwide. Gabrielle has been very successful in organizational change, specializing in enterprise level transformation.
She is a certified Scrum Trainer, Scrum Master and Practitioner, and holds an MA in Digital Media. She is co-author of The Scrum Primer.
More about Gabrielle Benefield...
She is a certified Scrum Trainer, Scrum Master and Practitioner, and holds an MA in Digital Media. She is co-author of The Scrum Primer.
More about Gabrielle Benefield...
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. His venture group is run by Scrum, invests in Agile companies, and trains them in Scrum as the best business practice for software development. He has been CTO and/or VP of Engineering of 9 software companies and is Scrum coach to over 20 portfolio companies for the venture group. Jeff started up using Scrum seven years ago at PatientKeeper and involved the whole company in the Scrum process. He has helped extend the company-wide Scrum model to many companies in the U.S. and Europe.
Jeff helps to strengthen Agile software development implementation in venture funded companies by provide coaching, mentoring, and training to development teams. OpenView investments require full implementation of Scrum and/or XP with strong product ownership and highly motivated teams that can demonstrate continously improving velocity of software production and quality of end user experience. More about Jeff Sutherland...
Jeff is CEO of Scrum, Inc. and Senior Advisor to OpenView Investment Partners. His venture group is run by Scrum, invests in Agile companies, and trains them in Scrum as the best business practice for software development. He has been CTO and/or VP of Engineering of 9 software companies and is Scrum coach to over 20 portfolio companies for the venture group. Jeff started up using Scrum seven years ago at PatientKeeper and involved the whole company in the Scrum process. He has helped extend the company-wide Scrum model to many companies in the U.S. and Europe.
Jeff helps to strengthen Agile software development implementation in venture funded companies by provide coaching, mentoring, and training to development teams. OpenView investments require full implementation of Scrum and/or XP with strong product ownership and highly motivated teams that can demonstrate continously improving velocity of software production and quality of end user experience. More about Jeff Sutherland...
Jens Østergaard is an Agile Developer consultant who helps organizations understand the fundamentals of Scrum, argue that organizations should keep Scrum as pure as possible, until they fully understand the mechanism that drive development forward.
Having more than 20 years of experience as developer, dba, team manager, project manager and ScrumMaster, primarily in financial organizations, he has worked with all aspects of software development. Jens has managed several Scrum projects, and became a fully qualified CSM Trainer, in Copenhagen, 2004. Apart from consulting and training, Jens gives popular presentations about Scrum, at conferences and for organizations.
Jens’ base is in Copenhagen, Denmark, where he is self-employed. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Systems Analysis at Linköping University, Sweden, and one year at graduate school, business department, in Madison, Wisconsin.
You can read more about Jens Østergaard at scrum.dk. More about Jens Ostergaard...
Having more than 20 years of experience as developer, dba, team manager, project manager and ScrumMaster, primarily in financial organizations, he has worked with all aspects of software development. Jens has managed several Scrum projects, and became a fully qualified CSM Trainer, in Copenhagen, 2004. Apart from consulting and training, Jens gives popular presentations about Scrum, at conferences and for organizations.
Jens’ base is in Copenhagen, Denmark, where he is self-employed. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Systems Analysis at Linköping University, Sweden, and one year at graduate school, business department, in Madison, Wisconsin.
You can read more about Jens Østergaard at scrum.dk. More about Jens Ostergaard...
Additional Notes
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
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!!
Great course. I enjoyed the exercises, it helped a lot to understand the concepts. Jens is the guy!
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.
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.
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!
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.
Very cool to meet Jeff and sasa...
Overall a very good course
