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Martine Devos' Certified ScrumMaster Plus Class (SCRUM-PLUS-01-03)

CODE: SCRUM-PLUS-01-03 DURATION: 3 DAY/S

Join world-leading Scrum expert Martine Devos for her fun and interactive 3-day workshop, Certified ScrumMaster Class Plus with Kanban, where you will learn a variety of practices and techniques to become a successful ScrumMaster!

You will cover the fundamental principles of Scrum to qualify as a Certified ScrumMaster. You will also learn to deal with the obstacles that confront Scrum teams and you will leave much better equipped to put Scrum into practice and succeed.

This three day class focuses on long term planning (release, product) and encourages participants to work on mixed projects. Pros and cons of advanced variants to agile project management including kanban and lean will be discussed and experienced in simulations. You will have ample time to share your own experiences and concerns in extra exercises and Q&A sessions. The workshop enables theory to be put into practise so that you have practical takeaways that can be shared with co-workers following the course.

Please note that this class is fast-paced and will focus on Estimation and Planning (for product, sprint and release) and Kanban (lean method).

Certification: The course leads to ScrumMaster Certification which includes 2 years free membership of the Scrum Alliance where additional ScrumMaster-only material and information are available. In addition, PMI members can claim up to 21 PDUs upon completing this course.

LEARN HOW TO:

Gain hands-on experience with the basic principles of Scrum, including:

Product backlog
Sprint backlog
Daily Scrum meetings
Retrospectives
Sprint planning meeting
Working with the product owner (and user stories)
Burn charts and reports

PROGRAMME

Practice dealing with the obstructions to high productivity on your Scrum team, such as:

Incomplete stories at Sprint end;
Estimation in StoryPoints and Hours (release planning and sprint planning), estimating bugs and maintenance work
Technical debt and legacy problems
"technical" backlog items or user stories
Sprints with lengthy analysis and time-consuming testing;
Learn practical approaches to increasing productivity while increasing Product Owner and management satisfaction.
Learning from Feedback -- and running engaging retrospectives
Explore techniques for applying Scrum to large and distributed teams.
Scrum and corporate governance and quality models

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Martine is a persuasive and highly passionate communicator, public speaker and published author focused on Agile methods
More about Martine Devos

WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING

"Very knowledgeable, energetic + enthusiastic instructor. Gives you confidence to implement ideas when back at work"

Ritchie Vickery

Jan 2009

IS THIS COURSE FOR YOU?

If you're a Project Manager, Team Leader, IT/development manager, Product manager, Business analyst, Architect or Developer interested in applying Scrum, this is the course for you! The course is ideal for anyone wishing to gain a full understanding of both the ScrumMaster & Scrum Product Owner role on a software project and wishing to gain practical skills and certification.

Bring your ScrumMaster or your Product Owner to this course and experience working together in a fun, informative, interactive setting. This is especially useful for Product Managers, Business Analysts, and Project/Program Managers who are not sure where they fit into the Agile and Scrum picture….

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COURSE PREREQUISITES

To benefit from this workshop, you should have some experience of using Scrum and Agile methods on projects. If you do not, we recommend attendance of Rachel Davies' Scrum Primer course.

You will also benefit from reading Agile Project Management with SCRUM (Microsoft Professional) by Ken Schwaber, prior to attending.

You will also benefit from watching this podcast, featuring Ken Schwaber talking about Scrum.

COURSE LABS & EXERCISES

The course combines lectures, Q&A and practical team exercises throughout the 3 days. You will be supplied with examples and tools used by successful teams all over the world.

FOLLOW ON COURSES

David Laribee's Leading Lean/Agile Teams