Participants in this two-day course will learn everything necessary for getting started with Scrum. There are very few rules to Scrum so it is important to learn its fundamental principles by experiencing them. In this course, participants gain hands-on practice with the release backlog, sprint backlog, the daily Scrum meeting, tracking progress with a burn down chart, and more. Participants experience the Scrum process through a "59-minute Scrum", which simulates a Scrum project through a non-technical group exercise. This course is equally suited for project managers, programmers, testers, analysts, product managers, and others who are interested in working on or with a Scrum team. You will leave with solid knowledge of how and why Scrum works. Through practical, hands-on exercises and small-group discussion you will be prepared to plan your first sprint immediately after this class. Following the course, each participant is enrolled as a Certified Scrum Master, which includes a one-year membership in the Scrum Alliance, where additional Scrum Master-only material and information are available.

About Scrum

Scrum is an iterative, incremental process for developing any product or managing any work. It produces a potentially shippable set of functionality at the end of every iteration. Scrum is:

• an agile process to manage and control development work
• a wrapper for existing engineering practices
• a team-based approach to iteratively, incrementally develop systems and products when requirements are rapidly changing
• a process that controls the chaos of conflicting interests and needs
• a way to improve communications and maximize co-operation
• a way to detect and cause the removal of anything that gets in the way of developing and delivering products
• is a way to maximize productivity
• is scalable from single projects to entire organizations. Scrum has controlled and organized development and implementation for multiple interrelated products and projects with over a thousand developers and implementers
• is a way for everyone to feel good about their job, their contributions, and that they have done the very best they possibly could

About the Instructor

Joseph Pelrine is a world-class specialist in Agile software development, Europe's first and senior Certified ScrumMaster Trainer and Practitioner, as well as one of Europe's leading experts on eXtreme Programming. He has had a successful career as software developer, project manager and consultant, and has spoken about it at such diverse places as IBM, OOPSLA and the Chaos Computer Club. His current research is focused on social complexity science and its application to Agile processes.