On Jan 6-8, 2010 Joe Little & Catherine
Louis will lead a
Certified ScrumMaster course in
Morrisville, NC (near RDU Airport).
Joe is an experienced Agile coach, with
in-depth practical experience in helping
teams become very productive with Scrum and
Agile. He co-teaches these courses with
Jeff Sutherland, who co-created Scrum.
Joe's blog is Agile & Business,
here .
We have several ways to register; the
simplest is Google Checkout below.
Click below to register for all 3 days. (This is the early bird
rate, which could change at any time.)
Course Location:
The location has changed recently,
but not far.
Courtyard Durham
Research Triangle Park
301 Residence Inn Blvd.
Durham, NC 27713
919-484-7900
(click on the link above for information)
For the workshop day, we will be at:
Rally Development
510 Glenwood Ave.
Suite 309
Raleigh, NC 27603
Click on the link for a Google Map.
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Contact:
Julia Hill if you have questions.
More details and a link to register are
below.
On the third day of this course, we will have
a workshop, applying the ideas to a
specific team.
Summary of the Course
Through a combination of immersive
team-based learning, exercises, and
real-world case studies, you will learn:
- To plan, initiate and lead a
Scrum project
- To establish a shared vision for
the entire team
- To generate an agile release plan
utilizing user stories and story point
estimation
- To lead your Scrum team through
planning, review, and retrospective
sessions
- To create an environment in
which self-managing teams can flourish
- To identify and remove
impediments
- To identify, engage and
involve business stakeholders in your
project
- How to take most existing
teams to the next level
- Practical suggestions
purchased expensively from the school
of hard knocks
ScrumMaster training provides an applied
understanding of the Scrum process and
helps participants begin to develop the
tools, insights, and skills required to
apply Scrum on their projects and across
their organizations.
Additional Information :
The course will run from 9am-5pm
each day. A continental breakfast, breaks
and lunch will be provided.
Following successful completion of the course
and the CSM Exam, each participant can be
enrolled as a Certified ScrumMaster.
This
includes a one-year membership in the Scrum
Alliance, where additional ScrumMaster-only
material and information are available.
Who Should Attend
This course is for all people interested in
Scrum and Agile. It was originally created
to train ScrumMasters, but is now used to
train teams and to train the managers
around teams. It is particularly useful if
a whole team (or team group) takes the
course together. In any case, all team
roles (programmer, tester, analyst, Product
Owner, ScrumMaster, etc) and managers and
other interested parties can attend. For
example, CEOs have attended with benefit.
While it is a beginner level course, this
course includes the practical knowledge to
immediately start doing Scrum with a team.
You will also learn not just the how, but
also the why. This course is immersive and
intensive, including practical, hands-on
exercises and small-group discussions.
PMPs: You can receive 21 Professional
Development Units (PDUs) for this course.
Course Material
Participants will receive a copy of the
slide deck (not books) at the course. The CSM course
was formulated to train and certify ScrumMasters and is used worldwide for
ScrumMaster training. In addition,
participants should obtain (at their own
expense) Agile Project Management with
Scrum, by Ken Schwaber, which is required
reading for the course. You may also wish
to obtain the primary Scrum book, Agile
Software Development with SCRUM by Schwaber
and Beedle, on which the course is based.
Of course, there will be updated material
and training exercises in the course which
you cannot get from books. The entire
syllabus can be available for your review upon
registering for the course so you can look
it over and bring it with you to the
sessions.
Registration and Fees
The early bird rate for all 3 days is $1,600, which may
change at any time. The normal rate
is $1,800. There is a
discount for groups of 3 or more.
You may pay via check, cash, Google
Checkout, PayPal or money transfer.
Once you pay, you become registered. If
your firm needs an invoice, we can generate
those as well. You are not fully registered
until we receive payment. Contact us if you
have a group. Please contact
Julia Hill for
details or with questions.
Refund policy
90% of the course fee will be
refunded for cancellations more that 7 days
in advance of the course. No refunds will
be provided for cancellations within a week
of the course.
