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.

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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.

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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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Scrum In House Training

Each organization has its own situation, its own challenges, and its own needs. In-house training is the optimal approach to improve the performance of an entire team or organisation.

Unlike public courses, in-house courses can deeply examine the situation in your organization to answer many of the questions raised by Scrum or to get ready for the first Sprint.

Specialized workshops, retreats and briefings can help your organization through critical stages in the Scrum or Agile adoption process.

• Certified Scrum Master Training - the basic foundation for all people involved in a Scrum Project. ( 3 days )
• Certified Scrum Product Owner Training - how to plan and deliver great results while working with a Scrum Team ( 3 days )
• Executive Briefing Workshops -  Helping your Management to understand whether Scrum is right for you.
• Temenos Leadership Retreats ( 2 1/2 days on the weekend ) - Team Building and Creating a Compelling Shared Vision among your Leadership Team
• MasterClass Workshop on Scrum Performance - for Teams and Organizations that have been doing Scrum and want to improve their ability to deliver value to the customers and stakeholders.
• MasterClass Workshop on Radical Management and Delighting the Customer. ( 3 days ) How to make the whole organization Agile.

All courses, workshops and retreats can be held in English, German or French.

Want to transform your organization with Scrum? The first step is easy: contact me and let's talk about it!

Scrum Training in French

The success of the Agile Tour proves it, Scrum and Agile Project Management are becoming a hot topic in France and French speaking Europe. My popular Scrum Jumpstart course is now available in French. I will offer the course for the first time in French in Geneva.

Does 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.

The rest of the details are the same as always: see the Scrum Jumpstart course description for details.

Date: January 14 & 15, 2010
Time: 9.00 to 17.00, maybe 17.30 on Thursday
Location: Digicomp Academy, rue de Monthoux 64, 1201 Genève‎
Prices and registration: http://www.sierra-charlie.com/course

This course is held in French. Course materials are in English.

Agile PM with Scrum (in German) Zürich - September 9 & 10, 2008

Next Scrum Course in German: Agile Project Management with Scrum this September in Zürich:

• Language: German
  
• Location: Zurich — Digicomp Acadamy
• Date: September 9 and 10, 2008
• Time: Coffee and Registration, 8:00, Course runs 9:00 to 17.00
• Detailed description: Agile Project Management with Scrum
• Price €995.– (CHF 1'580.–)
  

How to plan, manage and control the Scrum software development process. A hands on introduction to the concepts needed by and tasks performed by the agile Project Manager (Scrum Master) and Customer or Program Manager (“Product Owner”) and the development team.

This course offers the substance of a Certified Scrum Master training without the expense of certification.

Register for Course Agile PM with Scrum (in German)

Price €995.– (CHF 1'580.–)

For those who want more hands on experience, the next day I will hold Workshop Scrum Sprint Zero with TargetProcess (also in German). Hands on, going though the entire process of planing, estimating, starting and reviewing a sprint. Not just for TargetProcess users.

Price €635.– (CHF 990.–)

Register for Workshop Scrum Sprint Zero with TargetProcess (in German)

You can sign up for both courses for €1'495.– (CHF 2'370–). You save €135.–.

Register for both, get theoretical, practical and hands on experience, and save!

Sprint Zero with TargetProcess (in German) Zürich, September 11, 2008

You have done the Scrum training and read the book. Now it's time to roll up your sleeves and start your first sprint. What now? A hands on workshop, going though the entire process of planing, estimating, starting and reviewing a sprint. Not just for TargetProcess users.

The "getting started with Scrum" workshop will be held directly after the course Agile Project Management with Scrum in Zürich.

• Language: German
  
• Location: Zurich — Digicomp Acadamy
  
• Date: September 11, 2008
• Time: Coffee and Registration, 8:00, Course runs 9:00 to 17.00
• Detailed description: Sprint Zero with TargetProcess

Price €635.– (CHF 990.–)

Register for Workshop Scrum Sprint Zero with TargetProcess (in German)

Want a compete foundation and hands on experience? Combine this course with Agile Project Management with Scrum and save €135.–. Click here for more information.