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Certified ScrumMaster seminar （Chengdu）

Instructor: Certified Scrum Trainer^TM Kane Mar.

Dates: 21-22 April 2010.

Location: Chengdu (Crown Plaza Hotel).

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Registration: Form is downloadable here, please fill it and send it by email.

Language: The course is given in English but with the assistance of a Chinese speaking Agile Coach.

Price : 7500 RMB if you register before the 12^th April 2010,

8500 RMB if you register after the 12^th April 2010.

Overview

In this two-day course, you will apply the Scrum framework to build a new product. You will learn what it feels like to be on a Scrum team—experiencing many of the challenges you're likely to face—while being coached by someone involved with the application of Scrum at many organizations. This “learning by doing” style of instruction demands your open mind and active participation.

We will use the experiential activities to discuss advanced topics such as

• how to use Scrum in multiple-team organizations,
• how to measure progress empirically at a macro level,
• release planning to maximize ROI, and
• why such a simple framework disrupts organizations in order to let them be the best they can be.

Who Should Attend?

This course is suitable for anyone working in software development and IT, including: Project managers, team leads, and IT/development managers, architects, developers and other team members.

Pre-requisites

It is expected for participants to have the basic knowledge about Scrum. You may read the official Scrum Guide (in English or Chinese), and Scrum Primer.

The following Scrum books are also highly recommended:

• "Agile Project Management with Scrum", Ken Schwaber. Microsoft Press. 2004
• "Agile Estimating and Planning", Mike Cohn. Prentice Hall. 2005
• "Agile Software Development with Scrum", Ken Schwaber and Mike Beedle. Prentice Hall. 2001

Why this course?

• Kane Mar is an experienced Certified Scrum Trainer™ and Certified Scrum Coach and has already trained more than 650 Certified ScrumMasters.
• Kane Mar will be assisted by a Chinese speaking Certified Scrum Practitionner.
• This course is eligible for 14 PMI PDUs if you are a member of the Project Management Institute.
• Certification as a ScrumMaster (CSM) at the ScrumAlliance.
• 2 years paid membership in the ScrumAlliance.

Contents

Overview of Scrum

• Why Scrum?
• What is Scrum?

Meetings

• The daily Scrum
• Sprint Planning
• Sprint review
• Sprint retrospective

The Product Backlog

• What is the Product Backlog
• Size of the items
• Writing User Stories
• User stories on the product backlog
• INVEST

Estimating and Planning

• Planning Poker
• Dog Points

Tracking progress

• Sprint burndown graph
• Task boards

Definition of "Done"

• Technical debt and architecture in a Scrum environment

The ScrumMaster

• Description
• Responsibilities
• A day in the life of a ScrumMaster

The Product Owner

• Description
• Responsibilities

The Team

• Description
• Roles
• Teams are cross-functional

Sprints

• Potentially shippable
• Sprint length
• Release sprints
• Abnormal terminations
• Velocity

Release planning

• Release Burndown graph
• The Alternative Product Burndown graph

Scalability

• The scrum of scrums
• A large team (model #1)
• A large team (model #2)

Details

The course will start from 9am, and end before 6pm.

Participants who complete the course will be eligible to complete their CSM certification with the Scrum Alliances' multiple choice examination. For the moment, anybody who makes the examination will automatically pass because the exam is still in experimentation phase. It is therefore recommended to do the examination even if it is not mandatory for non-native English speakers (the exam being in English) for knowledge verification.