SucceedingWithAgile PMI

This two-day, advanced course picks up where ScrumMaster and other introductory agile courses end. Go beyond the basics and learn tips and techniques necessary to help an organization move beyond initial success to sustained agility. Drawing and expanding on concepts in Mike's Succeeding with Agile book, this course will show you how to get started and get good with agile or Scrum.

Covered are topics such as establishing and leading self-organizing teams, effective teamwork during the sprint, integrating quality, scaling Scrum to hundreds of developers, applying Scrum on a globally distributed team, being agile while meeting regulatory compliance requirements, enlisting the human resources and facilities groups as allies, and measuring and proving the benefits of Scrum.

Also covered is everything you need to know to initiate and guide a successful transition to agile. By iterating toward agility through the proper use of improvement communities, an organization can create the culture of continuous improvement necessary for long-term success with agile.

PMPs: This course counts for 15 Professional Development Units (PDUs).

What You Get

  • High quality training from an industry expert
  • A continental breakfast buffet, a hot lunch buffet, an afternoon snack, and continuously replenished drinks
  • A 1 GB USB drive containing a PDF of the course materials, relevant articles by Mike Cohn and others, sample chapters from Mike's books, and other information
  • A printed and bound copy of the course materials

What Will You Learn?

  • How the same process used to start the transition effort can be used to spread agile or Scrum across the enterprise.
  • Everything you need to know to be successful with large and distributed teams.
  • How the roles of project managers, functional managers, programmers, testers, data professionals, architects, analysts, and others change with agile.
  • How to incorporate technical design, interaction design, and architecture into agile projects.
  • How to encourage improvement communities to form and drive the hard work of organizational change.
  • How to work with other departments in the organization to reinforce and retain the changes an agile process brings.
  • Tips and tricks from the instructor’s fifteen years of using Scrum in a wide variety of environments.

Brochure

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Location Details

Classes in Boulder are held at the Boulderado Hotel, in the heart of downtown.  The downtown area has an incredible array of dining choice, from ethnic and healthy fare to hip, funky food hotspots, popular brewpubs, and elegant dining for that special occasion. Shopping and dining are an easy walking distance from the hotel.

Who Should Attend?

This advanced course is suited for anyone who has previously attended an introductory agile or Scrum training course, such as a Certified ScrumMaster or Certified Scrum Product Owner class. It is also appropriate for anyone with prior agile experience who is looking for answers to the hundreds of questions that arise during any agile adoption.