October 2012 - Agile Training Course for PMI - Central Coast (Certified ScrumMaster (CSM))
Topic: Agile Training Course - Certified ScrumMaster (CSM)
Speaker: Mark Layton
Date: October18-19, 2012
Time: 8:30 AM - 5:30 PM
Location: Hyatt at Westlake Village
Cost: $ 999.00 - PMI-4C Members
$1099.00 - Non-Chapter Members
$ 945.00 - PMI-4C Members - Until October 11
$1045.00 - Non-Chapter Members Until October 11
About the Presentation:
This two-day, 16 hour course will introduce participants to the highly, efficient and responsive techniques of Agile Project Management and provide you with a CERTIFICATION (CSM) as a Certified ScrumMaster.
As mobile and web technologies continue to evolve rapidly, there is added pressure to develop and implement critical projects in weeks instead of months. Agile:
- Adapts to volatile business needs and ongoing refinement of business solutions
- Drives efficient and effective production
- Ensures closer adherence to customers’ real-world needs through streamlined planning
- Supports faster deployment of production-grade solutions so your organization can gain market advantage and business value
- Reduces project risk through rapid iterations of development that inform opportunity assessments
When this course has been completed, attendees will have gained in-depth practical knowledge of Scrum and how to lead projects & teams using Agile principles.
Course Overview
Topics included in this course are:
- Agile foundational concepts
- Defined vs. Empirical process control
- The Agile Manifesto
- The 12 Agile Principles
- Scrum concepts
- Theory and principles
- How the Scrum approach supports Agile principles
- Planning and tracking with Scrum
- Shippable functionality and getting to Done
- Scrum roles and responsibilities
- Product Owner
- ScrumMaster
- Self-organized Team
- Scrum artifacts
- Product backlog
- Release burndown
- Sprint backlog
- Sprint burndown
- Scrum meetings
- Release planning
- Sprint planning
- Daily Scrum
- Sprint review
- Sprint retrospective
- Requirements analysis
- Estimating and prioritizing product backlog items
- Technical debt
- Scaling across multiple teams and multiple geographies
- Tips on, techniques for, and benefits of helping clients and management understand the Scrum system.
- How to transition into use of Scrums, with a review of management and team challenges associated with the transition, along with strategies to respond to those challenges
