Scrum Jumpstart

Jumpstart your Scrum Team!

Do you want to get started with Scrum? Does your team need hands on experience before starting a "real" project? Do need to convince a skeptic that Scrum is the way to go?

This the course for you: an introduction to Scrum for developers, project leaders, business analysts and program managers who want get started with Scrum. After completing this course, your head will understand Scrum, your stomach will have digested why Scrum works, and your hands will be able to do Scrum.

A Customer Recommendation:

Anton Schultschick, Head of IT-Support,
Electrical Engineering Department, ETH Zurich
This course consists of 4 Modules of 1/2 day each:

1. What is Scrum? Scrum Retrospectives
2. First Contact with Scrum, Introduction to Agile Estimating and Planning
3. Scrum in Depth, other Frameworks, Engineering Practices and Scrum
4. Sprint Zero and One: Getting Started with Scrum

Your Trainer

Peter Stevens, Certified Scrum Practitioner, born 1959, started his career in 1982 as a Software Engineer at Microsoft. He first got interested in Scrum in 2005 while working for MySQL. Since 2006 he has been using Scrum both throughout Switzerland and abroad, to rescue and guide various projects large and small to a successful conclusion. He is also one of the cofounders of the Lean-Agile-Scrum specialist group of the SwissICT.

Audience

The Scrum Jumpstart is ideal for

• Teams and organizations getting started with Scrum.
• Managers, consultants or project leaders who are considering whether to deploy Scrum in their organizations.
• Teams or organizations who have had difficulties doing Scrum properly.

Their are no prerequisites, but familiarity with Scrum, XP or software development will be helpful.

Certificate

Participants who actively complete all four units receive a certificate of accomplishment from Swiss Scrum Pioneer and Certified Scrum Practitioner Peter Stevens. This course qualifies for 16 PDU's for maintaining PMI credentials.

Registration

• Language: German
• Location: Zurich or Bern, Switzerland — c/o Digicomp Academy
• Time: Coffee and Registration 8:00, Course Times from 8:30 to 16.30 (with 17:00 for overflow)
• Lodging: please contact us if you need help selecting a nearby hotel.
• For prices and dates: continue to Registration

The course language is German, the course materials are in English.

Register for this course online.

You can also jump start your entire team with In-House training in English, German, or French. Please contact us for more information.