Class
CSM Certified ScrumMaster
Taught by Jeff Sutherland
June 27-28, 2011 in Zürich, Switzerland
This course is sponsored by the Scrum Foundation and will be taught by Jeff Sutherland, Co-Creator of Scrum. While the Scrum Alliance provides a list of core concepts that must be covered in the class, each instructor creates his or her own material, allowing courses to differ based on the strenghts, interests and experiences of the instructor.
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Venue
Holiday Inn Zürich Messe
Wallisellsenstrasse 48
8050 Zürich
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Description
The course will start promptly at 9am each day and run until 5pm. Please arrive at 8:30 the first day for a continental breakfast.
Overview
In this course, participants will learn how to stop thrashing and start executing along with everything necessary for getting started with Scrum. There are very few rules to Scrum so it is important to learn its fundamental principles by experiencing them directly from those who have implemented the best Scrums in the software industry. Participants gain hands-on practice with the release backlog, sprint backlog, the daily Scrum meeting, tracking progress with a burndown chart and experience the Scrum process through a “59-minute Scrum” and the "XP Game” which simulate Scrum projects through non-technical group exercises.
The CSM course was formulated to train and certify ScrumMasters and is used worldwide for ScrumMaster training. Upon successful completion of the course and online certification exam, 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.
You can receive 16 Professional Development Units (PDUs) for this course.
Course Material
Participants will receive course materials for review at the start of the course. A course syllabus is available at http://jeffsutherland.com/csmsyllabus.pdf.
Participants should read The Scrum Handbook by Jeff Sutherland (downloadable for free at http://jeffsutherland.com/scrumhandbook.pdf) or Ken Schwaber’s book, Agile Project Management with Scrum before the class as we require you know the basic definitions of Scrum. Of course, there will be updated material and training exercises in the course which you cannot get from books.
About the Instructor
Jeff Sutherland is the Chairman of the Scrum Training Institute and CEO of Scrum, Inc. powered by OpenView Venture Partners. Jeff invented Scrum at Easel Corporation in 1993 and worked with Scrum Co-Creator Ken Schwaber to formalize the Scrum development process at OOPSLA’95. In 2001, Jeff and Ken were signatories of the Agile Manifesto. You will hear directly from one of the founders of Agile software development on how to implement best practices in your organization.
Jeff is Agile coach to OpenView portfolio companies and to the OpenView venture group staff, which runs all its operations with Scrum. As Senior Advisor to OpenView he focuses on using Scrum to transform companies as well as empower software developers. His former company PatientKeeper quadrupled revenue in 2007 and the OpenView venture capital group wants to create similar high performance portfolio companies. Jeff will share the secret sauce that helps development teams radically improve productivity and quality while providing a more rewarding and fun working environment for developers.
Jeff is an expert on distributed/outsourced Scrum (see Agile 2008) and on implementing Scrum in a CMMI Level 5 company. He has has scaled and distributed Scrum using his last five companies as laboratories. While CTO at PatientKeeper he introduced the concept of a MetaScrum to drive all product strategy with Scrum and this drove the 400% revenue increase in 2007. It created one of the most advance implementations of Scrum worldwide.