Certified ScrumMaster (2 Days)
- Date: Thursday 18th & Friday 19th April 2013
- Duration: 9.00am - 5.30pm
- Venue: CORK, Hotel venue to be confirmed
- Fee to Software Skillnet members after grant aid is €810 (this includes the €60 Scrum Alliance Certification)
- There are free places for jobseekers on this programme
OVERVIEW
Leading a Scrum team is radically different to traditional project management. Rather than plan, instruct, and direct, the leader of a Scrum team (called a ScrumMaster) facilitates, coaches, and leads. In this ScrumMaster Certification course, you will learn the essentials of working as a ScrumMaster or Scrum team member. You will learn how to assume the responsibilities of a ScrumMaster and to guide the development team, a project, or an organisation into Agile practice by fostering the adoption of new attitudes, collaborative processes and working to remove institutional barriers.
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 strengths, interests, and experiences of the instructor. Martine's interest, research and experience has focused on planning and estimation techniques and as such this ScrumMaster Certification course covers Agile Estimation and Planning techniques in particular depth.
Upon completion of this ScrumMaster course, you will know how to use Scrum to maximise value creation, improve customer and employee satisfaction as well as engineering practices and tools. Additionally, upon successful completion of the course, each participant is enrolled as a Certified ScrumMaster, which includes a one-year Scrum Alliance membership, where additional ScrumMaster-only material and information is available..
OBJECTIVES AND OUTCOMES
Upon completion of this ScrumMaster course, you will know how to use Scrum to maximise value creation, improve customer and employee satisfaction as well as engineering practices and tools. Additionally, upon successful completion of the course, each participant is enrolled as a Certified ScrumMaster, which includes a one-year Scrum Alliance membership, where additional ScrumMaster-only material and information is available.
- Assume the responsibilities of a ScrumMaster
- Remove the barriers between development and the customer so that the customer/Product Owner directly drives development
- Improve employee and customer satisfaction
- Improve accuracy of estimation and planning
- Improve the engineering practices and tools so each increment of functionality is potentially shippable
COURSE CONTENT
The course blends tutorial, class discussion, question and answer sessions, and demonstrations/simulations.
Introduction
Agile Values and Scrum Origins
Scrum and Change
Empirical Process Control
Companies Using Scrum
Scrum Process and Roles
Scrum Flow, Iterative-incremental Software Development and Shippable Product Increments
The Role of the Product Owner
The Role of the Team including Team Dynamics, Team Norms and the Visual Workplace
The ScrumMaster Role including Conflict Management, Appraisals and Appointing the ScrumMaster
The Role of Project Managers and Functional Managers in Scrum
Requirements Management
Software Overproduction
The Product Backlog
Prioritisation Techniques
Release Management
Sustainable Pace
Estimating and Planning
Tracking
Working with Sprints
Sprint Workflow and Characteristics
Sprint Planning Preparation
Sprint Estimating and Planning
Daily Scrum
Sprint Review and Retrospective
Sprint Reporting
Large and Distributed Scrum Projects
Brook’s Law
Organic Growth and Conway’s Law
Master Product Backlog and the Product Owner Team
Team Set-up
Multi-team Planning and Coordination
Shared Norms and Assets
Distributed Scrum Project Tips
Sample Distributed Project Org
Getting Started in Scrum
Just Do It
The Nature of Change
Scrum Adoption Stages
Change Practices including the Enterprise Transition Team and the Transition Product Backlog
Deming’s PDCA Cycle
The Role of Consultants
For more Information or to reserve your place please contact Julie-Ann at julianne@itcork.ie or 0214868182
