Certified ScrumMaster – Markham – January 2012

Courtyard Toronto Markham 65 Minthorn Boulevard, Markham, ON L3T 7N5, Canada

The most popular Agile certification! This two day course gives you the foundations to be an effective ScrumMaster and contributes towards the requirements of the Scrum Alliance’s Certified ScrumMaster program. Learning Objective:
Describe Scrum to others including roles, meetings, artifacts and principles.

Agenda:
Introductions
- Facilitation: Welcome and Introductions
- Lecture: Scrum Certification, Classroom Expectations
- Handout: Notes (Questions, Information, Insights, Action Items)
- Exercise: Generating Questions

Waterfall/Lean/Agile Simulation
- Simulation: show how Agile methods can result in 400% productivity improvement

Scrum Process Overview
- Handout: The Scrum Process
- Lecture: The Scrum Process
- Practice: Explaining Scrum
- Multi-Media: Quality in Scrum
- Exercise: Improving Quality
- Lecture: Scrum Is/Is Not
- Handout: Scrum Rules of Thumb
- Discussion: Scrum Rules of Thumb
- Lecture: Scrum Team vs. Not Scrum Team
- Handout: Scrum Team Room
- Discussion: Scrum Team Room
- Discussion: Scrum Process Q&A

Self-Organizing Teams Exercise
- Exercise: show how Agile methods dramatically change teamwork

The ScrumMaster Role
- Exercise: Qualities of a ScrumMaster
- Handout: The ScrumMaster – Self-Evaluation
- Exercise: The ScrumMaster – Self-Evaluation
- Discussion: Clarifications
- Lecture: Removing Obstacles
- Handout: The Scrum Administrator
- Exercise: Mapping the ScrumMaster Role to Traditional Roles

Scrum Maturity and the Definition of “Done”
- Discussion: Junior vs. Senior Team
- Lecture: Definition of “Done”
- Exercise: “Done” for You
- Lecture: “Done” and Agile Maturity

In-Depth Simulation
Lecture: Introducing the Project
Handout: Product Information and Project Schedule
Exercise: Initial Product Backlog
Handout: User Stories
Lecture: User Stories
Exercise: 407 User Stories
Exercise: Generating User Stories
Exercise: Splitting User Stories
Lecture: The “Bucket System”
Handout: Planning Game Cards
Exercise: Estimating Value
Lecture: The “Planning Game”
Exercise: Estimating Effort
Lecture: Calculating ROI
Exercise: Prioritization
Exercise: Velocity and Release Planning
Facilitation: Preparing for Project Execution
Exercise: Sprint One
Exercise: Sprint One Review
Lecture: Retrospectives and Action Items
Exercise: Retrospective
Facilitation: Four ScrumMasters
Exercise: Sprint Two
Exercise: Sprint Two Review
Facilitation: Project Debrief
Graduation
- What Did You Learn?
- Certification
- Feedback Forms

Attendance cost: $1400.00 CAD

Event organizer: Berteig Consulting Inc.

Register for the Certified ScrumMaster – Markham – January 2012