Scrum Team Training

Who Should Attend/Prerequisites

Class Size Limit: 25 (Minimum 8)

Course Overview

This course is an excellent way to train up your entire team on Scrum. The course is a fast-paced participative 2-day immersion in Scrum. The course begins by discussing the origins of Scrum, market uptake, and a conceptual view of the methodology. The underlying philosophies of Scrum and Agile are covered in detail including an engaged customer, time-boxing, iterative development, sashimi, collaboration, command & control versus self-organization, trust, transparency, inspect & adapt, and just-in-time planning. The Scrum framework and the Scrum iteration (sprint) are then described using hands-on exercises which allow the attendee to experience how Scrum truly works. Changing requirements and how to manage these using Scrum is presented. All Scrum personnel roles such as Scrum Master, Product Owner, Chickens & Pigs, development team, and customer are described. The artifacts of Scrum are described – product backlog, sprint backlog, burndown chart, and the potentially shippable product increment. Then, the Scrum meetings are described in detail – sprint planning meeting, daily standups, sprint reviews, and sprint reflection. Additional topics are covered such as Scrum scalability, ScrumBut, managing dependencies with Scrum, managing technical debt with Scrum, and the relation of User Stories to Scrum.

The student’s understanding of Scrum is intensified with collaborative participation in many exercises emulating aspects of the entire Scrum framework. The class ends by putting it all together with a full lifecycle project exercise using Scrum.

Note: this course is not a Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) course. Instead, it covers all aspects and roles of Scrum for the entire team. The CSM course focuses solely on the ScrumMaster role, while this course explains all roles and responsibilities for the entire Scrum team.

Upon completion of the course, the attendee will be ready to implement the Scrum agile method in his/her organization with confidence.

Agenda

Day 1

    Origins of Scrum

    Sequential versus holistic development

    Complex adaptive systems

    Scrum market uptake

    Agile Manifesto

    12 Agile Practices

    Philosophical underpinnings

        Engaged customer

        Time-boxing

        Iterative development

        Consistent heartbeat of delivery

        Sashimi

        Collaboration

        Self-organization

        Trust

        Transparency

        Inspect & adapt

        Just-in-time planning

        Emergent design

    Scrum framework

    Sprints

    Team dynamics and constraints

    Scrum roles

        Customer

        Product owner

        ScrumMaster

        Cross-functional development team

        Chickens & pigs

    Scrum artifacts

        Product backlog

        Sprint backlog

        Sprint burndown chart

        Potentially shippable product increment

    Managing requirement changes

    Scrum meetings

        Sprint planning

        Daily standup

        Sprint review

        Sprint reflection

Day 2

    ScrumBut

    Introspective analysis

    User Stories in relation to Scrum

    Scrum scalability

    Managing dependencies with Scrum

    Managing technical debt

    Full project exercise

Cost:

$1195 per attendee.

Early Bird Registration - By 03-26-2010 $995 per attendee