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, how to overcome common problems, 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 hot lunch buffet and two coffee breaks
- 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 effectively structure teams, including how to make proper use of specialists.
- Tips and tricks from the instructor's fifteen years of using Scrum in a wide variety of environments.
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.
About your Instructor - Mike Cohn
Learn Scrum and Agile Processes directly from Mike Cohn, one of the industry's most well-respected Certified Scrum Trainers. Mike Cohn is the author of User Stories Applied for Agile Software Development, Agile Estimating and Planning, and Succeeding with Agile. Mike is a highly popular and in-demand Scrum and agile trainer across the globe. He is also a co-founder and former board member of the Scrum Alliance, a non-profit organization dedicated specifically to Scrum, and a co-founder of the non-profit Agile Alliance, home of the Agile Manifesto.
All Mountain Goat Software's agile estimating and planning training and consultations are conducted by Mike Cohn himself. To get a sense of Mike's style, watch this sample of Mike's presentation at Google, or read feedback from others on What They're Saying About Us.Also, take a look at our client list.
For more information about Mountain Goat Software, Mike Cohn, and why to choose us for your agile estimating and planning training, please visit Why Mountain Goat? or view a complete list of our public agile and Scrum courses.
Stockholm courses are held at the Nordic Sea Hotel which is situated in the middle of Stockholm city. They are next door to the Arlanda Express Train and the Central Station. The venue is located at Vasaplan 4, Stockholm Sweden. Registration for all Stockhom courses is handled through Mountain Goat Software and Mike Cohn's Stockholm partner, Citerus.
What People Are Saying About This Course
“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
Refund Policy
Registered students may cancel without penalty up to March 22. Cancellation after this date requires full payment. A course registration may be transferred to another person after contacting Citerus. If the class is canceled by Citerus, for any reason, a full refund will be issued of the amount paid for the class. No matter the cause of the cancellation, Citerus will not be responsible for students travel expense, loss of time etc.