Agile 201: A Practicum for those who want to win with Scrum

On July 21-22, Jeff Sutherland and Joe Little will lead this advanced course in Scrum and Agile. In NYC.

To register, click here.

Location

Course: Lucerne Hotel

West 79th Street, off-Broadway

Hotel:

Hotel Excelsior

45 West 81st Street

New York, NY 10024

212-362-9200 or 800-368-4575

We will have a block of rooms at the Excelsior at a group rate of $225 (?) per night for a standard room.  This block has not been set up yet.  Or try the Lucerne Hotel (more expensive I think). There are of course many hotels in NYC. I will suggest getting a hotel near the Broadway subway line, which will allow you to get to the Lucerne Hotel quickly.

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Course Summary

1. Bring your own experiences, issues and problems as a case study for the group. And bring your success stories.

2. Learn how the highest performing teams implement Scrum.

3. Understand how Lean practices can be used to optimize Scrum performance.

4. At the conclusion of the course, you should be able to write a Certified Scrum Practitioner

application that would be accepted by the Scrum Alliance review team.

Who Should Attend

Those with a meaningful introduction to Scrum and at least some real-world experience with it. Usually will already have a CSM. The basics of Scrum will not be covered (although some basics will probably be repeated). CSPs, CSCs and CSTs should also be able to learn from this course.

Assumptions: We generally will assume that you are using some combination of Scrum, Agile principles and practices, XP and Lean. We will also address situations where some of you are not using some of these.

Participants are expected to identify which areas they are most interested in when registering. Change, discovery and learning are also expected up to and including the dates of the course. The group will also inspect and adapt.

Areas of interest are likely to include:

• Scrum adoption: phases, players and levers
• The goals of Scrum
• Starting a Scrum Team
• Building the Product Backlog and initial Estimating and Planning
• Developing better Product Owners and better Business collaboration
• Review of values and first principles
• First Few Iterations -- best practices in Release Planning, Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Work, Sprint Review, Retrospectives
• Developing better team flow; moving the definition of Done
• Use of Release and Sprint Burndown Charts
• Other metrics related to Scrum Teams
• Release Planning during the life of the effort
• Impediments Management: Identifying, prioritizing and acting on Impediments (again and again)
• When Push comes to Shove
• Better Engineering Practices
• Business Value and the integration of Scrum with the Business side of the firm
• The problem of getting the coder to know what the end-customers really want, and only provide the top value features
• "Ba": Why, what and how?
• More Useful Information Radiators
• The winning spirit of a Scrum Team
• Developing better Teams and better ScrumMasters and better Product Owners
• How much is a ScrumMaster worth? How much is a Product Owner worth?
• Selling Scrum: Why, when, where, and how
• Better applications of the Scrum of Scrums concept
• Where do Managers and Stakeholders fit in?
• Moving from 2x improvement to 10x improvement
• Spreading Scrum throughout the organization
• Scrum center: why it matters and how to return there
• Leadership and "Making It Happen Now"; Patience
• Scaling Scrum
• Scrum and legacy systems
• The problems of Success
• Success stories from imperfect companies
• Scrum and... (Six Sigma, CMMI, XP, RUP, Lean, ITIL, COBIT, SARBOX, Offshoring, Distributed Teams, etc.)
• Addressing risk (in its several flavors) and risk management
• Scrum: Riding your Character and Emotions to victory
• When will I be done learning Scrum?

It is NOT expected that all these topics can be addressed in each class, but many will be.

We will have an adaptive curriculum; each course will be adjusted to the needs of its attendees. The attendees will be expected to activity participate in describing possible solutions to the problems and questions asked. No perfect answers are expected.

Registration and Fees:

The course fee is $1,500.  There is an early registration discount until April 21st, bringing the price to $1,300.  After April 21st, 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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