This one-day, advanced course picks up where ScrumMaster and other introductory agile courses end. Drawing and expanding on concepts in Mike's Succeeding with Agile book, this course will help you move beyond initial success to sustained agility. Attendees should have a solid understanding of agile concepts and the principles and practices of Scrum prior to tackling this material.
Participants will learn advanced teamwork techniques, including ways to ensure all team members are fully engaged each day of the sprint. They will discover ways to effectively scale Scrum, in one location or on a globally distributed team. The course will explore how to be agile while working alongside or within a waterfall process. Participants will leave with guidelines for measuring the success of their agile projects.
Agile isn't a final destination; it's something you grow towards each day. Learn how to iterate towards a higher level of agility, no matter where you are on your journey.
For PMPs, this course counts for 7.5 professional development units.
What You Get
- High quality training from an industry expert
- Fruit in the morning, sandwiches mid-morning, a lunch buffet, an afternoon snack, and drinks
- A printed and bound copy of the course materials
- How the same process used during transition can help spread agile or Scrum across the enterprise.
- How to effectively conduct each of the standard Scrum meetings even with a geographically distributed team
- How to incorporate technical design, interaction design, and architecture into agile projects
- How improvement communities can drive the hard work of organizational change.
- How to work with other departments to reinforce and retain the changes an agile process brings.
What Will You Learn?
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.
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