Certified ScrumMaster

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All CSM courses are taught by Certified Scrum Trainers. Taking a CSM course, passing the CSM test, and accepting the license agreement designates you as a Certified ScrumMaster, which indicates that you have been introduced to and understand the basic concepts you need to perform as a ScrumMaster or team member on a Scrum team. This course also satisfies two elements of the CSD track: Scrum Introduction and Elective.



ABOUT THE COURSE

Martine Devos is offering a Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) training course in Sofia, Bulgaria on Monday-Tuesday  29th and 30th of January, 2008.  This two-day course will provide a comprehensive in-depth training in Scrum practice, taught by a ScrumAlliance Certified Scrum Trainer who trained ScrumMasters all over the world.  The course will cover all certification topics and focus on the 2nd day on agile estimation, team work including onshore / offshore development using Scrum; release planning, agile requirements and work with product owner.

ABOUT THE CERTIFICATION

All attendees who complete the course will become Certified ScrumMasters (CSMs), and will be listed on the Scrum Alliance website's CSM registry.  As Certified ScrumMasters, they will also receive an individual license, Scrum training materials, and Scrum templates, and they will have access to the Scrum Alliance website's ScrumMaster restricted areas.  Attendees who are Project Management Institute PMP's are eligible for 14 Professional Development Units.

ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR

Martine Devos is organizational development consultant and trainer with comprehensive business background, strong analytical skills and passion for detecting and solving tough problems. She is Certified to train Product Owners as well as ScrumMasters.

As a and assertive leader she brought many projects and product development efforts back on track in both government and services sector.

She has extensive managerial experience in both traditional and agile environments. She mastered successive waves of technology innovation to conceptualize, design and deploy mission critical business-focused ICT solutions in Fortune 500 companies and in the public sector. 

She trains and coaches teams in agile principles and practices of Scrum, Extreme Programming and Lean Software Engineering.  For her first Scrum project she got the title of ICT manager of the year in 1998.

She initiated and successfully implemented organizational and cultural change initiatives at both companywide and team level in multicultural environments.

She is a persuasive communicator, public speaker and published author focused on methods to bridge the semantic gap between business and technology.  She loves to teach and can do in English, French and Dutch.  She can answer questions in German and Spanish.   She has coaching and teaching experience on all continents. 

Dates:

29-30 Jan 2008
Location:

Sofia, Bulgaria

Venue:

Scrum BG
Tri Ushi Str
Sofia, Bulgaria
http://www.scrumbg.com/

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Price:

850 EUR

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Introduction
  • Agile Values
  • Scrum Origins
  • Scrum and Change
  • Empirical Process Control
  • Companies Using Scrum
  • Compliance with CMM
Scrum Process and Roles
  • Scrum Flow
  • Scrum Roles
  • ScrumMaster challenges including Team dynamics, ScrumMaster selection, Performance Appraisals
  • The Role of Project Managers and Functional Managers in Scrum
Requirements Management
  • Software Overproduction
  • Product Backlog
  • User Stories
Release Management
  • Sustainable Pace
  • Planning Overview
  • Estimating
  • Planning
  • Tracking
Working with Sprints
  • Sprint Workflow and Characteristics
  • Sprint Estimating and Planning
  • Daily Scrum
  • Sprint Review
  • Sprint Retrospective
  • Sprint Reporting
Getting Started in Scrum
  • Just do it
  • The Nature and Anatomy of Change
  • Scrum Adoption Stages
  • Bottom-up and Top-down Approaches
  • Piece-Meal Growth
Large and Distributed Scrum Projects
  • Master Product Backlog and the Product Owner team
  • Organic Growth
  • Team Set-Up
  • Multi-team Planning and Coordination
  • Shared Norms and Assets
  • Distributed Scrum Project Tips
The Visual Workplace Development Practices
  • Agile Modelling
  • Vertical Slices
  • XP/Lean Development Practices
  • Program and Project Managers
  • Team management and team members (developers, testers, customer representatives) of teams under high pressure (speed, changing requirements) and uncertainty.
  • Product Owners, Scrum coaches, XP Coaches, Techical Managers
  • Team members of XP and Scrum teams who want to become better team players and leaders