Certified ScrumMaster Training

Course Information: April 18-19, 2012 – 9:00am – 5:00pm Crowne Plaza Portland 1441 NE 2nd Avenue, Portland, OR 97232 Regular: $1200 LFL Discount: $900 (Save 25% – use code: LFL300) Register Now Course fee includes a one-year membership in the Scrum Alliance June 21-22, 2012 – 9:00am – 5:00pm Lloyd Center DoubleTree Executive Meeting Center 1000 NE Multnomah Street, Portland, OR 97232 Regular: $1200 LFL Discount: $900 (Save 25% – use code: LFL300) Register Now Course fee includes a one-year membership in the Scrum Alliance Other upcoming dates for this training: August 23-24, 2012 September 26-27, 2012 December 6-7, 2012 This course is brought to you in partnership with SolutionsIQ.

Instructor SolutionsIQ Certified Scrum Trainer A member of our experienced scrum 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 Scrum Master (CSM) Training gives you all the tools and information you need to effectively apply Agile Scrum Project Management principles to your project or program.

Students will learn how to:

• Maintain and use a burndown chart
• Manage Product Backlogs
• Plan Releases and Iterations (Sprints)
• Conduct Sprint Planning, Daily Scrums, Sprint Reviews & Retrospective meetings
• Track and Report progress
• Effectively apply the principles of the Agile Manifesto

All SolutionsIQ Agile training courses are highly interactive. Students will participate in discussions group-based exercises, and simulations.

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

More scrum training and related courses:

• Certified Scrum Product Owner Training
• Writing Effective Agile Use Cases