Extended Education

Agile Program Management with Scrum

This two-day advanced course provides the best practices, tools and techniques you need to take your ScrumMaster certification or knowledge of Scrum, Agile and Lean to the next level in your organization. You will learn how Scrum can be applied in more complex program and portfolio environments across multiple, distributed teams that can address different customer types. In addition to covering advanced approaches for scaling Scrum, Agile and lean practices across your organization, this course will provide practical, "real-world" examples of how to accelerate the pace of change in your organization and development practices.

• Introductions, Individual Course Objectives
• Scrum Implementations and Complexities, Case studies
• Lean practices to inspect the Scrum Implementation
• Extending the Scrum Planning Process to address program size initiatives
• Roles in a large initiative
• Tools & Metrics
• Architecture
• Teams & Meetings
• Working with Offshore Teams
• Leading Change

This advanced course is appropriate for software and product management professionals who want to champion and accelerate the shift towards Agile and Lean Development at the program and portfolio level. This course is ideal for seasoned ScrumMasters who are managing a large project (multi team, multi month) or program managers who are managing a portfolio of projects. Attendees should have a minimum of 6 months experience in Agile software development practices; they likely have attended Certified Scrum Master training or possess comparable knowledge obtained through an implementation process of Agile practices.