Jeff Sutherland - Certified ScrumMaster courses

 

On July 14-15, 2008, Jeff Sutherland & Joe Little will lead a Certified ScrumMaster course in Charlotte, NC.  This course has sold out in the past.  

 

We will also conduct a CSM course in NYC on Sept 4-5.

 

To register (and pay) for the July course, please click here.  If you are interested in the NYC course in Sept, please go here.

 

Jeff started the first Scrum at Easel Corporation in 1993 and worked with Ken Schwaber to emerge Scrum as a formal process at OOPSLA'95.  Together, they extended and enhanced Scrum at many software companies and IT organizations and helped write the Agile Manifesto.

 

Location for the Charlotte course in July

The course will be held in Charlotte, NC, in a meeting room here:

Hilton Charlotte Executive Park

5624 Westpark Drive

Charlotte, NC 28217

704-529-5963 (for reservations); or 704-527-8000 for information.

(Click on the hotel name for more details.)

 

We will have a special rate of $139.00 at this hotel for these days for sleeping rooms.  Ask for the "Sutherland CSM Course".  (The block has not quite been set up in the system.  There are a limited number of rooms in the block.)

 

The hotel is just to the east of where Tyvola Road and I-77 intersect. 6 miles from the airport, and easy to get to from I-77. The hotel has a shuttle from the airport.

 

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Contact: Joe Little if you have questions. More details below and a link to register is also below.

 

 

What you will Learn

 

• The history of Scrum

• The values & principles behind Scrum
• About the 4 main meeting:  Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, and Retrospective
• About the main artifacts: Product backlog, Sprint backlog, Burndown charts, Impediments list
• The 4 roles: Product Owner, ScrumMaster, Team member, and Stakeholder
• The kinds of leadership required and where they come from
• What makes Scrum work
• The basics of product backlog creation & refactoring
• The basics of agile estimating and planning with Scrum
• Success stories
• Issues that arise, and how to overcome them
• The winning spirit of Scrum

 

And other topics.

 

This will give you the footing to start practicing Scrum.

The course will include discussion from slides, stories, Q&A, discussions at your table, exercises and games.  It is highly interactive and engaging.

 

 

Additional Information

Jeff currently works as CTO of PatientKeeper. The PatientKeeper Chief Product Owner leads the weekly MetaScrum which resources, starts, stops, and changes all Sprints to deliver dozens of production releases a year to large enterprise healthcare systems. Mary Poppendieck, in her latest book on Lean Software Development comments:

 

Five years ago a killer application emerged in the health care industry: Give doctors access to patient information on a PDA. Today there is no question which company won the race to dominate this exploding market; PatientKeeper has overwhelmed its competition with its capability to bring new products and features to market just about every week. The sixty or so technical people produce more software than many organizations several times larger, and they do not show any sign that the size of their code base is slowing them down.

 

 

A key strategy that has kept PatientKeeper at the front of the pack is an emphasis on unprecedented speed in delivering new features. It will not surprise anyone who understands Lean that PatientKeeper has to maintain superb quality in order to support its rapid delivery. CTO Jeff Sutherland explains it this way:

"Rapid cycle time:

* Increases learning tremendously

* Eliminates buggy software because you die if you don't fix this.

* Fixes the install process because you die if you have to install 45 releases this year and install is not easy.

* Improves the upgrade process because there is a constant flow of upgrades that are mandatory. Makes upgrades easy.

* Forces quick standardization of software via new features rather than customization and one off.

* Forces implementation of sustainable pace.. You die a death of attrition without it.

* Allows waiting to build new functionality until there are 4-5 customers who pay for it.

 

This is counterintuitive, and caused by the fact everything is ready within 90 days."

 

In this course, participants gain hands-on practice with the release backlog, sprint backlog, the daily Scrum meeting, tracking progress with a burndown chart, and more. Participants experience the Scrum process through a "59-minute Scrum" and the "XP Game" which simulate Scrum projects through non-technical group exercises.

 

This course is equally suited for managers, programmers, testers, analysts, product managers, and others who are interested in working on or with a Scrum team. You will leave with solid knowledge of how and why Scrum works. Through practical, hands-on exercises and small-group discussion you will be prepared to plan your first sprint immediately after this class.

 

The course will run from 9am-5pm each day. A continental breakfast and lunch will be provided.

 

Following the course, each participant is enrolled as a Certified ScrumMaster, which includes a one-year membership in the Scrum Alliance, where additional ScrumMaster-only material and information are available.

 

Who Should Attend

 

The first goal of this course is to create strong ScrumMasters.  But others have found the course useful.  These include:

 

• Developers
• Product managers
• Testers
• Other Managers
• Project leaders

 

Indeed, for anyone directly on a Scrum team, and for people that support one or more Scrum teams.

 

After this course, you will be prepared to start your first Scrum project, or to make your next Scrum project much more successful.

 

PMPs: You can receive 16 Professional Development Units (PDUs) for this course.

 

 

Course Material

 

Participants will receive course materials (not books) for review upon registration. The CSM course was formulated to train and certify ScrumMasters and is used worldwide for ScrumMaster training. In addition, participants should obtain (at their own expense) Agile Project Management with Scrum, by Ken Schwaber, which is required reading for the course. You may also wish to obtain the primary Scrum book, Agile Software Development with SCRUM by Schwaber and Beedle, on which the course is based.

 

Of course, there will be updated material and training exercises in the course which you cannot get from books. The entire syllabus will be made available upon registering for the course so you can look it over and bring it with you to the sessions.

 

Registration and Fees

 

The course fee is $1,500.  There is an early registration discount until May 14th, bringing the price to $1,300.  After May 14th, there will be discounts for groups, and special situations.

 

Please visit this page to register. 

 

If you pay via Google checkout, you become registered. If your firm needs an invoice, we can generate those as well. Contact us if you have a group. Please contact Joe Little for details or with questions.

 

Refund policy

 

90% of the course fee will be refunded for cancellations more that 7 days in advance of the course. No refunds will be provided for cancellations within a week of the course.

 

 

 

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