Certified ScrumMaster Training

Course Information: September 15 – 16, 2010 – 9:00am – 5:00pm Lloyd Center DoubleTree Executive Meeting Center 1000 NE Multnomah Street, Portland, OR 97232 Early Bird: $960 Regular: $1200 Course fee includes a one-year membership in the Scrum Alliance Register Now This course is brought to you in partnership with SolutionsIQ.

Instructor SolutionsIQ Certified Scrum Trainer A member of our experienced training staff will be the instructor for this course. Our Agile coaches and trainers are unique in the industry in that they continue as Agile practitioners working on client projects. Our consultants help organizations understand how to apply Agile through examples and real-world experiences… Learn More About Instructors >>

Overview

SolutionsIQ Certified ScrumMaster Training gives you all the tools and information you need to get started with Scrum and Agile. Delivered by SolutionsIQ’s world-renowned Certified ScrumMaster Trainers, this course shares time-tested practices for managing Product Backlogs, planning your releases and iterations (Sprints), and tracking and reporting progress. You’ll learn how to lead Sprint Planning meetings, Daily Scrum meetings, Sprint Review meetings, Sprint Retrospectives, and much more.

Prerequisites

This is an introductory course. Participants should come prepared with basic knowledge of the Scrum framework. Proactive students are encouraged to read the Agile Manifesto & Principles (www. agilemanifesto.org and www.agilemanifesto.org/principles.html), and one of the following:

• Agile Software Development with Scrum, by Ken Schwaber and Mike Beedle
• Agile Project Management with Scrum, by Ken Schwaber

Intended Audience

All software team members, including project managers, team leads, development managers, product managers, architects, developers, testers, as well as executives (e.g. CIOs and CTOs.)

Course Outline

Why You Need This Course:
The leading and fastest-growing of the Agile methodologies, Scrum is a simple software project management framework that adheres to a small set of interrelated practices and rules, is not overly prescriptive, and is able to produce productivity gains for software development teams almost immediately.
This agile, lightweight process effectively manages and controls software development through iterative, incremental practices. Scrum training will boost the capabilities of your Agile development team and positively impact projects for years to come.

Agenda:

• Introduction to Agile
• Origins of Scrum
• The Scrum process
• Roles and responsibilities
• Product Backlog
• Estimating Product Backlog items
• Scaling Scrum
• Scrum in detail
• Sprints
• Sprint planning meeting
• Daily standup meeting
• Burndown charts and project reporting
• Sprint review and retrospective
• Getting started with Scrum
• Graduation and closing