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

Held Mar 3-4, 2010 in Boulder
Taught by Mike Cohn,
this class runs from 8:30 AM - 4:30 PM .
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Price: $1300
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Guarantee

We are so confident that you will benefit from our training that we offer a 100% money back guarantee. If you aren’t satisfied with the training you received, contact us within thirty days to receive a full refund of the registration fee, no questions asked.

Refund Policy

A full refund will be provided if you cancel or transfer your registration to a different event no later than five business days prior to the start of the class. If you cancel or transfer within five business days you will be charged $150 per class.

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.

Testimonials

“Mike is a passionate and inspirational teacher with a wealth of experience from working with a wide variety of companies. We can’t wait to have him back”.
—Harvey Wheaton, Electronic Arts

“Mike introduced our organization to Scrum. His classes were logical, entertaining and very insightful.”
—Terry Eaton, Ultimate Software

“Mike's training was fantastic. I’ve heard lots of praise since. Mike was direct, authoritative, tactful and hilarious. Even for teams where we have a lot of scrum and xp in usage, Mike’s training energized us all. The next day we talked a lot about how we could improve. I’d highly recommend his training to any team.”
—Stephanie Saad, Microsoft

“Excellent class- I'm excited to get going. Hopefully I can remember it all.”
—Jeff Thomas, Control 4

“I learned many things that will have immediate impact on the way I work.”
—Michael Minnick, Gestalt, LLC

“Mike brings great energy to every class that I have seen him teach. He’s great in front of a large audience or consulting with a few folks. He was incredibly helpful as we rolled out agile at Salesforce. He has great experience and knowledge of a broad set of agile methods that result in very practical advice for software teams. ”
—Chris Fry, Senior Director, salesforce.com