Hi All!

Is becoming a Certified ScrumMaster still on your list of things to-do? If so, now is the time to register for one of these Agile courses located in Boulder, CO! Register today before it's too late.

Certified ScrumMaster Training

Date: 07/29/08 – 07/30/08   Location: Boulder, CO Trainer: Jean Tabaka Rally Software Development

Date: 08/27/08 – 08/28/08   Location: Boulder, CO Trainer: Tamara Sulaiman Rally Software Development

Date: 09/16/08 – 09/17/08   Location: Boulder, CO Trainer: Jean Tabaka Rally Software Development

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Course Overview

This two-day ScrumMaster certification course provides everything you need to get started with Scrum. One of the largest and fastest-growing Agile project management methodologies, Scrum is a simple software management technique that has 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.

Delivered by Certified ScrumMaster trainers, this course shares time-tested practices for managing product backlogs, planning your releases and iterations (Sprints) and tracking and reporting progress. You'll learn how to plan and run Sprint Planning Meetings, daily Scrum Meetings, Sprint Reviews, Sprint Retrospectives and more!

On completion, participants are registered as Certified ScrumMasters (CSMs), which includes a one-year membership in the Scrum Alliance, (www.scrumalliance.org) where valuable ScrumMaster-material and information are available exclusively to CSMs.

Important Note: Certification and membership to the Scrum Alliance is not available through the "Agile Program Management with Scrum" courses.

Collaboration Explained

Date: 08/20/08 – 08/21/08 Location: Boulder, CO Trainers: Jean Tabaka & Ronica Roth, Rally Software Development
 

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Course Overview

To succeed, an Agile project demands outstanding collaboration among all its stakeholders. But great collaboration doesn't happen by itself; it must be carefully planned and facilitated throughout the entire project lifecycle. That responsibility falls upon the shoulders of the Project Manager or ScrumMaster as a facilitator and servant to the Agile team.

Based on Jean Tabaka's book Collaboration Explained: Facilitation Skills for Software Project Leaders, this two-day course teaches you the facilitation tools and techniques that support a collaborative mode of decision-making for the planning, daily interactions, iteration reviews and retrospections of Agile software development teams. Through extensive hands-on exercises, participants learn how to plan and lead productive meetings that gather and harness the wisdom of the group; guide constructive conflict toward sustainable decisions; capture the data that support the decisions and action; and produce actionable results.

Scaling Software Agility: Best Practices for Large Enterprises

Date: 09/11/08    Location: Boulder, CO     Trainers: Dean Leffingwell
 

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Course Overview

This course is a based on the author's book Scaling Software Agility: Best Practices for Large Enterprises. While Agile practices have been applied and recommended primarily to small teams, in this course Dean Leffingwell describes how Agile methods can be applied effectively to enterprise-class development. The course is in three parts:

• Part I provides an overview of the most common and effective Agile methods
• Part II describes seven best practices of agility that natively scale to the enterprise level
• Part III describes an additional set of seven organizational capabilities that companies can master to achieve the full benefits of enterprise-scale software agility

While the course is based on the book, the material is constantly updated based on the instructors ongoing experiences in helping some of the world's larger software companies transform themselves to become an agile enterprise.

In addition to the delivered content, the small group setting provides an opportunity for informal discussions of some of the real world challenges that attendees face. Since most attendees face significant challenges of agile adoption at scale, the learning environment facilitates experience sharing and practical problem solving in the enterprise context.

Agenda

Part I- Overview of Software Agility

• Introduction to Agile Methods
• Why The Waterfall Model Doesn't Work
• The Essence of XP
• The Essence of SCRUM
• The Essence of RUP
• Lean Software, DSDM and FDD
• The Essence of Agile
• The Challenge of Scaling Agile

Part II - Seven Agile Team Practices that Scale

• The Define/Build/Test Component Team
• Two Level Planning and Tracking
• Mastering the Iteration
• Smaller, More Frequent Releases
• Concurrent Testing
• Continuous Integration
• Regular Reflection and Adaptation

Part III: Creating the Agile Enterprise

• Intentional Architecture
• Lean Requirements at Scale: Vision, Roadmap and Just-In-Time Elaboration
• Systems of Systems and The Agile Release Train
• Managing Highly Distributed Development
• Changing the Organization
• Impact on Customers and Operations
• Measuring Business Performance

A Free copy of the book Scaling Software Agility: Best Practices for Larger Enterprises will be provided to all attendees.

 
Cheers,

Hannah Shain

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