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Certified Scrum Product Owner Training
Date:
09/23/08 – 09/24/08
Location: Boulder, CO Trainer: Ronica Roth & Jean Tabaka Rally
Software Development
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Course Overview
Iterative and incremental development requires a steady stream of highest-value Agile requirements which are elaborated just-in-time and thus remain fresh and relevant. Agile software development puts both control and responsibility for success squarely in the hands of the "Product Owner". The challenge becomes how to provide the constant evaluation of value, the constant interaction with the delivery team, and the constant determination off whether requirements are, indeed, done. The best Product Owners harness the Agile feedback loops to constantly improve the value the software organization is delivering. Whether the "product" is for sale in the marketplace, for internal consumption, or custom software built on spec, the Agile product organization must be able to plan for success.
Rally's Certified Scrum Product Owner Training is a two-day, exercise-intensive training designed to help participants.
Attending Product Owners learn:
Agile requirements management-modeling, user stories, acceptance criteria,
just-in-time elaboration, ranking backlog items
Agile planning-visioning, road-mapping, release planning, iteration planning
The Agile product organization-how to organize to support the flow that delivers value iteratively and incrementally, whether you need to support one Agile team, or an entire program or enterprise
Agenda
- Why should a Product Owner adopt Agile?
- What are the Agile Product Owner responsibilities?
- How do Product Owners plan continuously?
- Vision/Charter
- Product Roadmap
- Product Backlog
- Release Planning
- Iteration Planning
- How does a product group organize to fulfill its roles and responsibilities?
- How do Product Owners manage the product backlog effectively?
- User Stories
- Prioritization
- Acceptance Criteria
- How do we inspect and adapt
our role?
Certified ScrumMaster Training
Date:
10/07/08 – 10/08/08 Location: Boulder, CO Trainer:
Tamara Sulaiman 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.
Knowledge Team Leadership
Date:
10/21/08 – 10/22/08 Location: Boulder, CO Trainer: Christopher Avery - Partnerwerks
Inc
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Course Overview
Becoming skilled at doing more with others may be the single most important thing you can do to increase your value. Knowledge Team Leadership fills a unique niche by showing you how to master the "personal agility" for getting work done with others. No other course compares.
By over-whelming demand, Christopher has agreed for the first time to teach this popular intensive in a 2-full-day format (as opposed to 3 days). This is made possible by an evening study session on Day 1 of class.
Every participant who engages fully for the entire two-days will receive a certificate for 20 hours of education. Do not plan to arrive late or fly out early.
Schedule
Day 1: 8:30am to 9pm with adequate breaks. (The evening session is a self-organized group lab that can involve dinner.)
Day 2: 8:30am to 4:30pm. (You should be able to make an 8pm flight out of Denver.)
"If I wanted to significantly improve my team's
performance, I'd call Christopher Avery first. His knowledge of the field,
extensive research, Responsibility Process, and effective teaching style
provide an unparalleled opportunity to create high-performance teams."
- Jim Highsmith, Sr. VP & Director, Agile Software Development, Cutter
Consortium, and award-winning author of three best-selling books on Agile
development.
Agile development is beginning to enjoy the recognition that it deserves as a productive and quality-enhancing approach to project delivery. But many are finding it challenging to adopt the agile mindset and culture that make these methods outperform others....
How well does your team perform?
Is it optimal?
Would you say your team's performance is great?
Would you like it to be great?
As corporate hierarchies flatten and the old command-and-control structures dissolve into self-directing teams, uncovering what makes teams function and what makes them great is critical.
Despite trendy myths to the contrary, teamwork does not depend on expensive off-sites, group-bonding away from work, or a facilitator's magic art. Teamwork is actually based on individual skills, beliefs, and attitudes that individual members learn to bring to the team. Great teams are built around a series of "conversations" that help to define each individual's role, agreements, and commitments to the team.
And Christopher Avery wrote the book on teamwork as an individual skill. And he'll teach you how to have the conversations at work that build great teams.
Knowledge Team Leadership with Christopher Avery Ph.D. is a powerful 2-day course (note: 2 full days and 1 evening on the first day) that equips you with a set of individual skills and behaviors to create highly responsible and productive relationships. Knowledge Team Leadership gives you practical knowledge about the conditions under which we human beings optimize our work together. You will learn how to create a great team by honing your collaborative leadership skills.
"We are the best we've ever been at being collectively
focused and directed without a lot of interpersonal chaos. We'd be out of
business if we hadn't done this."
- Craig Wadham, VP Engineering, DTM Corp
Ultimately, collaborative success depends on your ability to compete for your organization's scarcest resource—the attention of project team members. The difference between effective and ineffective knowledge teams isn't in the level of rtechnical skill, supporting technologies, or facilities. It's in the interpersonal dynamics among the team members.
And anyone can learn how to develop those interpersonal dynamics that lead to high performance and results time after time...
"If you really want to be powerful and influential on a
team - take this course! I really enjoyed this course. The tools and techniques
to use on projects or with teams were great."
- Clare Huspeni, Director, Verizon Wireless
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Hannah Shain
Agile University
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