Training Room "Zurich West"

The spacious and well-equipped training room "Zurich West" is located in Zurich's up and coming region of the same name. Getting there is easy, thanks to direct tram access to the Zurich main train station, easy access from the S-Bahn stations Zurich-Altstetten and Zurich-Hardbrücke, and several parking garages near the start of the Autobahn to Bern and Basel.

Location

  • "Orion Building"
  • Hardturmstrasse 181
  • 8005 Zürich
  • Ground Floor


 Nearest Public Transportation

  • from Zurich HB take
    • Tram 17 to Zurich, Fischerweg, 9 Minutes
  • from Zürich Altstetten or Hardbrücke (Zurich-Schiffbau)
    • Tram 4 to Toni-Areal, 5 Minutes + 7 Minutes on foot

Nearest Parking

  • Parkhaus P West, Förrlibuckstrasse 151, 8005 Zürich, currently CHF 15.00 for 10 hours.
  • Parking lots along Tram 17
    • Hardhof, Under the Europabrücke, currently 50Rp/hour, Bring change. The machine takes 5 Frank pieces.
    • EWZ, Hardhof 1, right next door Parking Hardhof, same rates, different machine
    • Park & Ride Zurich Hardturm, 600m, 7 minutes. Rate information.

Nearby Restaurants

  • Brasserie Bernoulli, Hardturmstrasse 261
  • Salotto Hardturmstrasse 169
  • La Torre (Pizzeria), Hardturmstrasse 126
  • As well as many others in Zürich-West near Escher-Wyss Platz

Nearby Accommodations

  • Hotel Senator, Heinrichstrasse 254, 8005 Zürich, +41-44-448-1818
  • Hotel Ibis, Schiffbaustrasse 11, 8005 Zürich, +41-44-276-2100
  • Hotel 25 Hours, Zurich West, Pfingstweidstrasse 102, 8005 Zurich
  • Novotel Zürich City-West, Schiffbaustrasse 13, 8005 Zürich, +41-44-276-2200

For information & Reservations

This room is also available for your own training or meeting.
  • Contact me online or at +41-44-586-6450

Intense Certified Scrum Master + Scrum for Managers

Learn the biggest secret in management today!
"In the 21st Century, there will be two kinds of company. Those who delight their customers and those who do not. The former will prosper and thrive, the latter will be challenged to survive."

-- Steve Denning, author of The Leaders Guide to Radical Managment
Just over a decade ago, a set of major management breakthroughs occurred. These breakthroughs enabled software development teams to achieve both disciplined execution and continuous innovation, something that was hitherto impossible to accomplish with traditional management methods.

Over the last decade, these management practices, including Agile, Scrum, Kanban, Lean and others, have been field-tested and proven in thousands of organizations around the world. Radical Management℠ distills, builds on and extends these principles, practices and values so that the entire organization can now achieve to apply the magic combination of disciplined execution and continuous innovation.

This course combines Scrum with Radical Management to teach you how to adopt and apply these practices in your organization. As a manager, you will understand your role in a Scrum organization, and as a leader or visionary, you will understand where to take your organization, why your organization must change, and how to lead change from anywhere in the organization.


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Description

This course teaches you Scrum and Radical Management. Scrum is one of the most widely adopted forms of Radical Management today; Radical Management extends Scrum to the entire organization so the organization can thrive in the 21st century.

You will qualify as a Certified Scrum Master. Then you go beyond Scrum to learn essential principles and practices for competing successfully in the 21st century marketplace.

You get an intense, personal training with much opportunity to work with the trainer and in small groups. This course is usually held in German but will be held English if there is no consensus among the participants for German or French.

Audience

Offering a career-changing experience for anyone dissatisfied with the rigidities of traditional management, this leadership course is for:
  • Agile leaders and coaches wanting to convert the entire organization to Agile
  • Business leaders needing to understand Agile management or achieve continuous innovation
  • Public sector leaders seeking the agility to “do more for less”
  • Entrepreneurs wanting to grow their startups without losing agility

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About Peter Stevens, Certified Scrum Trainer, Recognized Radical Management Trainer


Peter Stevens is a founder of RadicalManagement.org and the Stoos Network, a global movement to catalyze a lasting change in management. An entrepreneur and Certified Scrum Trainer, he works with individuals and companies in Europe and around the world to introduce agility, become more effective and profitable, and have more fun at work.

As an experienced Scrum coach, trainer and mentor with a passion for helping organizations transform themselves to thrive in the 21st century, Peter Stevens have been training Scrum Masters, Scrum Developers and Scrum Product Owners in Switzerland and abroad since 2008. His coaching focus is on helping organizations transform.

Prerequisites

No special prerequisites. Familiarity with IT is helpful. All participants are expected to read a 10 page introduction to Radical Management by Steve Denning and a 10 page excerpt of "Do Better Scrum" by Peter Hundermark.

Topics

  • Five Principles of Radical Management
  • The Prime Directive: Delight the Customer!
  • Role of the Manager: from Controller to Enabler
  • Catalyzing change: Leadership Storytelling
  • Scrum Principles and Values
  • Scrum Roles, Meetings, and Instrumentation
  • Significance of “Done”
  • User Centered Design and Acceptance Test Driven Design
  • Hands-on experience doing Scrum and Radical Management
Day 1 - Scrum Values and Principles
  • What makes an ideal project?
  • What is Scrum in 25 words or less?
  • Why is Scrum so different than traditional project management?
  • How and why does Scrum work?
  • What does it feel like to be in a Scrum Project?
  • How do you really do Scrum?
  • Why is focus essential to performance and success?
Day 2 - Scrum Core Practices and other Well Known Practices
  • What are the roles in Scrum and how to they relate to established job functions?
  • What do managers do in a modern organization?
  • How do you specify and estimate work?
  • How do you plan and monitor a release? How do you hit a deadline?
  • How do you improve team performance?
  • How do you handle big, distributed projects? (Scaling)

Day 3 - Scrum For Managers
  • History of Management
  • The Manager in a Scrum Context
  • Disruptive Innovation 
  • Customer Delight - Why is it essential? How do you measure it? How do you achieve it?
  • Role of the manager: What do managers do in a modern organization?
  • Agile Transformations: How do make Finance or HR Agile?
  • Leading change: how to cause change without top down authority?

Practical Details:

Program:

•    Coffee & Registration: 9.00am
•    Begin: 9.30am (prompt!)
•    End: 18.00 (6pm)

This course is held regularly in Zurich. All dates are guaranteed (even if you are the only participant). For prices and dates: continue to Register Now...!

Certification:

Participants qualify for Certification as a ScrumMaster by the Scrum Alliance. An additional test is required (which you can take from home on the web). The test fee is included in your course costs.

Members of the PMI can claim 22 PDUs for successful completion of this course and apply this course towards meeting the requirement of the ACP.

All participants who actively participate in the entire course may receive a confirmation of participation.

Further Training

The MasterClass Workshop on Scrum, Vision and Team Performance enables you to understand and improve the performance of your team or organization, given that you are doing Scrum, Kanban or other Radical Management approach.

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Scrum in Manufacturing and Management (CSM)

with Joe Justice & Peter Stevens

Scrum beyond Software: Applying Scrum to Manufacturing and Management.

Joe Justice with
WIKISPEED 100mpg Prototype
Are you enjoying what Scrum Project Management is doing for your software delivery teams? How about sharing some of that success with your sales, marketing, and public relations staff, and your HR, legal, and finance teams? And your hardware development and manufacturing managers?

Learn all about how your entire company can achieve 10x typical velocities with Peter Stevens, the pioneer of Scrum in Switzerland, and Joe Justice, the founder of Team WIKISPEED. Join us for a special event in Zurich:

May 28 and 29: Certified ScrumMaster Training for Technical Teams and Beyond

Joe and Peter work with manufacturing, financial services, hi-tech, aerospace, consulting companies, mobile app developers, web services, design groups, software delivery and testing groups, and health care and government groups.. Joe Justice's Team WIKISPEED used Scrum to develop a 100 mpg car in just 3 months and now delivers social good initiatives worldwide. Peter Stevens pioneered Scrum in Switzerland and is working with Radical Management and Stoos to catalyze a lasting improvement in Management around the world.

Practical Details:

Program:

  • Coffee & Registration: 9.00am
  • Begin: 9.30am (prompt!)
  • End: 18.00 (6pm)

This date is guaranteed (even if you are the only participant). Continue to Register Now...!

Certification:

Participants qualify for Certification as a ScrumMaster by the Scrum Alliance. An additional test is required (which you can take from home on the web). The test fee is included in your course costs.

Members of the PMI can claim 15 PDUs for successful completion of this course and apply this course towards meeting the requirement of the ACP.

All participants who actively participate in the entire course receive a confirmation of participation.

Further Training

The MasterClass Workshop on Scrum Vision and Team Performance enables you to understand and improve the performance of your team or organization, given that you are using Scrum, Kanban or other Radical Management framework.

Enter Discount code WIKISPEED before March 31 for an additional 10% discount.

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Certified Scrum Product Owner with Peter Stevens

Leading Innovation through Agile Projects

Has your IT department started doing Scrum, and now you are wondering how you as a Product Manager or business Project Leader should work with a Scrum team? Are you selling IT services and wondering how you write a quote - especially a fixed price quote - if your team is doing Scrum?

How do you plan a project if every month you can completely change the deliverables? How do you calculate a price or a schedule? How do you deal with customers when your teams do Scrum and make Scrum "Real-World Compatible?"' So many questions! This course will help you find answers!



If you are a Product Owner, Scrum Master, Program Manager or Sales Consultant who needs to reliably estimate, schedule and price a software development project using agile methods, this course is for you: A two day immersion into creating great products, agile planning and estimating, and managing the agile team.

Topics

  • Product Owner: Duties, Rights and Privileges
  • Creating Products that Excite Your Customers
  • Guiding self organizing teams
  • Personae, User Stories, Story Points and Business Value, Planning Poker
  • Creating & Prioritizing the Product Backlog, Release Planning
  • Sizing the Project, generating time estimates and milestones
  • Monitoring Progress
  • Scaling to large projects
  • Contracting and the Dreaded Fix Priced Bid
  • Advanced Topics: Applying ideas from Kanban and Lean Startup to maximize your success with your Scrum Team.
After completing this course, you will be able (with the help of your Scrum Team) to create, budget, plan and schedule and quote an agile project.

Audience and Prerequisites

This course is ideal for (future) Product Owners, Scrum Masters, Project Leaders, Product Owners, IT Managers and Sales Consultants who want to plan, budget and bid on agile projects and who want to maximize their chances of success with the software they develop.

All participants will be asked to prepare by reading a 10 or 15 page introduction to Scrum. The following books are recommended as preparation:
  • User Stories Applied; Mike Cohn
  • Agile Estimating and Planning; Mike Cohn
  • Scrum. Produkte zuverlässig und schnell entwickeln; Boris Gloger; Hanser 2008

About Peter Stevens, Certified Scrum Trainer

As an experienced Scrum coach, trainer and mentor with a passion for helping organizations transform themselves to thrive in the 21st century, Peter Stevens have been training Scrum Masters, Scrum Developers and Scrum Product Owners in Switzerland and abroad since 2008. His coaching focus is on transforming organizations.

"As Product Owner for the HappinessApp, I am confronted myself with the challenges of being a successful Product Owner. I can share real life experiences to help you do your job better. I teach teams, their leaders, their management and their stakeholders to do Scrum well, to understand Scrum deeply, and to live Scrum values."

Peter is an engaged leader of the Agile community in Switzerland and worldwide. Most recently, he initiated the Stoos Network, an interdisciplinary summit to catalyze a lasting change in business management along Agile principles.

Practical Details:

  • Location: Schulungsraum “zum Talgarten”, Am Wasser 94, 8049 Zürich 
  • Duration: 2 days (starting August 2013, 3 days)
  • Course language - courses available in English and German, see calendar for details.

Program:

•    Coffee & Registration: 9.00am
•    Begin: 9.30am (prompt!)
•    End: 18.00.

This course is held regularly in Zurich. All dates are guaranteed (even if you are the only participant). For prices and dates: continue to Register Now...!

Certification:

Participants qualify for Certification as a Certified Scrum Product Owner by the Scrum Alliance. An additional test may be required. A membership in the Scrum Alliance is included in your course costs.

Members of the PMI can claim 15 PDUs (starting August 2013, 22 PDUS) for successful completion of this course and apply this course towards meeting the requirement of the ACP.

All participants who actively participate in the entire course receive a confirmation of participation.

The MasterClass Workshop on Scrum Performance enables you to understand and improve the performance of your team in your organization, given that you are doing Scrum.

You may book master classes individually or together with a CSM or CSPO class at a discount.

 Further Training

The MasterClass Workshop on Scrum, Vision and Team Performance enables you to understand and improve the performance of your team in your organization, given that you are doing Scrum.

You may book master classes individually or together with a CSM or CSPO class at a discount.


Intensive Certified Scrum Master Training (2 days)

Remember your best project? When everybody was pulling together? When you were building a great product or service and your customers or stakeholders were really happy? Are you living that project now? Imagine what it would be like if every project were one of your best? What would that be like? What would it mean for you, your team, your company and your customers?

This is why people do Scrum!

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Description

Scrum is a simple team-based framework for solving complex problems (like software development). This course teaches you the mindset and the practices to make that vision a reality: That this project can be your best project ever!

You get an intense, personal training with much opportunity to work with the trainer and in small groups. This course is usually held in German but will be held English if there is no consensus among the participants for German or French.

About Peter Stevens, Certified Scrum Trainer


As an experienced Scrum coach, trainer and mentor with a passion for helping organizations transform themselves to thrive in the 21st century, Peter Stevens have been training Scrum Masters, Scrum Developers and Scrum Product Owners in Switzerland and abroad since 2008. His coaching focus is on transforming organizations. "I teach teams, their leaders, their management and their stakeholders to do Scrum well, to understand Scrum deeply, and to live Scrum values."

Peter is an engaged leader of the Agile community in Switzerland and worldwide. Most recently, he initiated the Stoos Gathering, an interdisciplinary summit to catalyze a lasting change in business management along Agile principles.

Audience

This course is intended for anyone involved in a Scrum Project, e.g. Developers, ScrumMasters, Product-Owners, Managers, Testers, Change Agents, Business Analysts, Project and Program Managers.

Register Now...!

Prerequisites

No special prerequisites. Familiarity with IT and/or Software Development Projects is helpful. All participants are expected to read a 10 page excerpt of "Do Better Scrum" by Peter Hundermark.

Topics

  • Scrum Principles and Values
  • Scrum Roles – Product Owner, Scrum Master, Development Team
  • Scrum Meetings, Sprint Planning & Review, Daily Scrum, Retrospective
  • Scrum Artifacts – Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, Product Increment
  • Significance of “Done”
  • User Stories and Acceptance Criteria
  • Release Estimating and Planning
  • Hands-on experience doing Scrum
Day 1 - Scrum Values and Principles
  • What makes an ideal project?
  • What is Scrum in 25 words or less?
  • Why is Scrum so different than traditional project management?
  • How and why does Scrum work?
  • What does it feel like to be in a Scrum Project?
  • How do you really do Scrum?
  • Why is focus essential to performance and success?
Day 2 - Scrum Core Practices and other Well Known Agile Practices
  • What are the roles in Scrum and how to they relate to established job functions?
  • What do managers do in a Scrum organization?
  • How do you specify and estimate work?
  • How do you plan and monitor a release? How do you hit a deadline?
  • How do you improve team performance with Scrum?
  • How do you handle big, distributed projects in Scrum? (Scaling)

Practical Details:

  • Location: Schulungsraum “zum Talgarten”, Am Wasser 94, 8049 Zürich 
  • Duration: 2 days.
  • Course language is English, unless all participants agree to speak German or French.

Program:

•    Coffee & Registration: 9.00am
•    Begin: 9.30am (prompt!)
•    End: 18.00 (6pm)

This course is held monthly in Zurich. All dates are guaranteed (even if you are the only participant). For prices and dates: continue to Register Now...!

Certification:

Participants qualify for Certification as a ScrumMaster by the Scrum Alliance. An additional test is required (which you can take from home on the web). The test fee is included in your course costs.

Members of the PMI can claim 15 PDUs for successful completion of this course and apply this course towards meeting the requirement of the ACP.

All participants who actively participate in the entire course receive a confirmation of participation.

Further Training

The MasterClass Workshop on Scrum Performance enables you to understand and improve the performance of your team in your organization, given that you are doing Scrum.

You may book master classes individually or together with a CSM or CSPO class at a discount.

Register Now...!



MasterClass: Scrum, Vision and Performance

Are you using Scrum, Agile, Lean or Kanban to manage projects and develop products? Are you getting the results you need and expect? Are you able to deliver value to your customers quickly and predictably? Is your business getting the results it needs when it needs them? If not, this workshop is for you!

This workshop is for organizations that are applying Lean and Agile frameworks who want to get the performance, productive and financial results they expect and demand from their investment in agility.

In this workshop, you will pursue two goals:
  1. Achieving Great Execution. Learn to do better Scrum or Kanban to deliver value reliably and predictably so you can delight your customers. Based on what you know and do now, what's good? What's bad? And what is downright ugly? Most importantly, how can you change to execute better?
  2. Creating a clear vision for improving your organization. Create a compelling, clear message that is shared by you and your leadership team that you can take to management, development staff, stakeholders and customer. You can explain where you want to go and why they want to go there too! 

Workshop Outline

This is a workshop, not a course, and not a powerpoint binge! Much of the content will be driven by the participants. Here's the plan (which may change depending on the decisions you take in the workshop): You will examine how you do Scrum in your organization. You will reflect on how Scrum has failed you, and how you have failed to be Agile. You will review topics you want to cover in more depth.


You will examine advanced topics, like Scaling Scrum or Radical Management. You will share experiences with other participants and learn how other organizations have solved your problems. You will identify short term improvement potential for your organization, to start applying on Monday morning. Finally, you will create a vision for taking your team or organization forward, so that your whole organization will benefit from being agile!

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Description

Scrum is a simple team-based framework for solving complex problems (like software development). This does not mean it is easy to do. Every project has its story and it's compromises. Some are healthy, some are not. This course will help you identify issues and develop pragmatic solutions so your team can better achieve that "hyper-productivity" you have been hoping for.

Day 1

  • Great projects — what makes them great?
  • Scrum Refresher — Inspect and Adapt, Timeboxing, Scrum Master, Product Owner, Development Team, Product Backlog, Definition of Done, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, Daily Scrum, Retrospective
  • The Past — How are you really doing Scrum? What works, what doesn't, how do other companies address your challenges?
  • Advanced Topics (1) — e.g Scaling Scrum, Bidding a fixed-price project, Working with an offshore Scrum Team.
  • The Present — How has Scrum failed you? How have you failed Scrum?
  • Questions and Answers

Day 2

  • The Future — Create a Compelling Shared Vision for your organization. How are you doing Scrum three years from now? 
  • Advanced Topics (2) — e.g Leading Change, Delighting the Customer, Disruptive Innovation
  • Remembering the future  — How did your organization achieve the state you envisioned? 
  • Problem Solving  — What is your biggest impediment and how can you solve it? 
  • First Steps  — What will you do differently Monday morning?
  • Questions and Answers

About Peter Stevens, CST


As an experienced Scrum coach, Certified Scrum Trainer and mentor with a passion for helping organizations transform themselves to thrive in the 21st century, Peter Stevens have been training Scrum Masters, Scrum Developers and Scrum Product Owners in Switzerland and abroad since 2008. His coaching focus is on transforming organizations. "I teach teams, their leaders, their management and their stakeholders to do Scrum well, to understand Scrum deeply, and to live Scrum values."

Peter is an engaged leader of the Agile community in Switzerland and worldwide. Most recently, he initiated the Stoos Gathering, an interdisciplinary summit to catalyze a lasting change in business management along Agile principles.

Audience

This Workshop is intended for Scrum Masters, Scrum Product Owners, Scrum Developers and Line Managers in a Scrum context who want their teams to achieve the next level of performance. You may of course register alone, but optimally, at least three people from your project should attend: the Product Owner, the Scrum Master, and one or more Development Team members. If your Line Manager comes too, your ability to implement you proposed changes may be even better!

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Prerequisites

To participate, you should be a Certified Scrum Master or Certified Product Owner or have had equivalent training. Exceptions are possible if you are coming as part of a team. All participants are expected to read a 10 page excerpt of "Do Better Scrum" by Peter Hundermark.

Typical Topics

  • How well is your Scrum Team doing?
  • How do you do Scrum? How is that different from Scrum 'by the book'?
  • Review of Scrum 
  • Problem solving - what can you do to improve your situation.
  • Getting Started: what will do on Monday?
  • If time permits: Approaches to Scaling Scrum.

Practical Details:

  • Location: Schulungsraum “zum Talgarten”, Am Wasser 94, 8049 Zürich 
  • Course language is English, unless all participants agree to speak German or French. Please let us know if you have a preference.

Program:

  • Duration: 2 days
  • Coffee & Registration: 9.00am
  • Begin: 9.30am (prompt!)
  • End: between 17.30 and 18.00

This Workshop is held regularly in Zurich (and can be held as a company course). All dates are guaranteed (even if you are the only participant). For prices and dates: continue to Register Now...!

Certification:

All participants who actively participate the entire workshop receive a confirmation of participation. This workshop qualifies for 15 Scrum Education Units (SEUs) of the Scrum Alliance and PDUs of the Project Management Institute.

Special Offers

See the registration page for information about group discounts if you come as a team.

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Training Room "zum Talgarten"


The House "zum Talgarten" was built in the 1890's and has just been renovated. This idyllic yet central location is just 70m away from the Limmat with its endless parks and trails into and out of the city. The training room is on the ground floor, and the room has a floor to ceiling glass doorway to the street for optimal daylight.

Location 



  • Schulungsraum "zum Talgarten"
  • Am Wasser 94
  • 8049 Zürich
The Limmat is just 70 meters away.

Nearest Public Transportation

Nearest Parking

  • Hardhof, Under the Europabrücke, currently 50Rp/hour, Bring change. The machine takes 5 Frank pieces. 800m 10 minutes
  • EWZ, Hardhof 1, right next door Parking Hardhof, same rates, different machine
  • Park & Ride Zurich Hardturm, 600m, 7 minutes. Rate information.

Nearby Restaurants

  • Turbinenhaus, Am Wasser 55, 8049 Zürich, +41-43-311-5808
  • Brasserie Bernoulli, Hardturmstrasse 261, 8005 Zürich, +41-44-563-8737 
  • As well as many others in Zürich-West near Escher-Wyss Platz

Nearby Accommodations

  • Hotel Senator, Heinrichstrasse 254, 8005 Zürich, +41-44-448-1818
  • Hotel Ibis, Schiffbaustrasse 11, 8005 Zürich, +41-44-276-2100
  • Novotel Zürich City-West, Schiffbaustrasse 13, 8005 Zürich, +41-44-276-2200
  • Route 39 Bed and Breakfast. Winzerstrasse 39,  8049 Zurich, Switzerland +41-44-822-2070 (book well in advance)

For information & Reservations

This room is also available for your own training or meeting.
  • Contact me online or at +41-44-586-6450