Class
CSM Certified ScrumMaster
Taught by James O. Coplien
March 23-24, 2009 in Helsinki, Finland
This hands-on, interactive two-day course will teach you:
- How to be an effective Scrum Master
- Improve teamwork
- Launch products sooner
- Improve engineering practices to deliver high-quality products
Class runs 9-5pm
Registration for this class has closed.
Venue
Scandic Marski Hotel, Mannerheimintie 10, Helsinki
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Description
Course Description
Upon successful completion of this course, each participant will be enrolled as a Certified ScrumMaster, which includes a one-year Scrum Alliance membership, where additional ScrumMaster-only material and information is available.
Attendees will be served lunch, morning and afternoon team and receive a bound copy of the training materials.
Audience
Applicable to all levels and roles including Managers, Designers, Developers, Testers, Executives, Project Managers and IT.
Recommended reading
No prior knowledge of Scrum or Agile methods is required although some prior reading is recommended. A good getting started guide can be found at http://www.scrumprimer.com
Class Agenda
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
About the Instructor
Gabrielle Benefield is a Certified Scrum Trainer offering courses in the United States, Europe, Australia and New Zealand through the Scrum Training Institute. Gabrielle was Senior Director of Agile Development at Yahoo! leading Yahoo!’s large-scale corporate adoption of Scrum, which now encompasses more than 200 teams projects and over 1500 employees in the US, India, Europe, and Asia. She is co-author of The Scrum Primer (www.scrumprimer.com).
Gabrielle holds a Masters of Digital Design from the University of Western Sydney, Australia and has over 16 years building enterprise software and web products at global companies. Gabrielle is a regular conference speaker presenting papers and talks on Enterprise Agile and Agile User Experience and Design.
Gabrielle provides training to a number of companies around the world and is currently based in London.
To Register:
Email: gabriellebenefield@yahoo.com
Registration link will be uploaded soon.
Professional Development Units (PDUs)
PMPs: You can receive 14 PDUs for this course.