The following are events scheduled in the United States that are related
to the Agile Methodology. These events are taken from an RSS feed that comes
from upcoming.org.
Mar 11, 2010: Certified Scrum Product Owner Training at Doubletree Lloyd Center
Agile Product Owner Certification
March 11-12, 2010
9:00am – 5:00pm
Scrum increases the emphasis on assessing and driving business value through close collaboration with the delivery team. The Scrum Product Owner establishes the interaction between the business and the delivery team that is so essential to increasing productivity within an Agile organization. Product Owners who assume this crucial role have the ability to guide the team and the process to gain the full benefit of Agile delivery.
SolutionsIQ Certified Scrum Product Owner Training is interactive and highly experiential. Participants gain practical tools and techniques for engaging with software delivery teams.
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Mar 15, 2010: Certified ScrumMaster - San Mateo, CA at Marriott San Mateo San Francisco Airport
Certified ScrumMaster
2 Days - This course results in a Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) designation from the Scrum Alliance.
Expand beyond classic product/project paradigms and learn why agile/scrum works.
Understand Scrum • Use Agile Metrics and Reports • Apply Adaptive Planning
Who Should Attend and Prerequisites:
This course is suited for people who have experience being on development teams or are faced with complex product/project development efforts. Individuals from all levels of the corporate structure who deal with rapidly changing demands and complex efforts. Managers, Testers, PM, Analysts, Developers, managers, directors, C-level functions
Participants should have be familiar with Agile, either by attending the Introduction to Agile Methods training course, or through practical Agile experience.
Why?
Agile project management is as radically different from traditional project management as agile processes are different from traditional methodologies. Rather than plan, instruct and direct, the agile project manager facilitates, coaches and leads. In the agile framework known as Scrum, this person is called a ScrumMaster to denote the difference and remind the person filling this role of their new responsibilities. Accepted course participants learn how to be a ScrumMaster and how to make a development team, a project, or an organization agile. The ScrumMaster is responsible for the proper execution of the Scrum framework, and manages the resulting changes within the organization. Exercises, case studies, simulations and experiences are used throughout the course to bring home the realization of how Scrum can work. We will also show how the roles of ScrumMaster, Product Owner and Team form a critical tripod for effective agile development. All participants are expected to understand Scrum basics prior to attending this course.
Why 3Back?
It is vital that today’s agile practitioners be able to retain what they have learned and apply it to their jobs. Our training leverages modern adult learning with both robust simulations and discussion. We train so that participants can put the ideas presented to practical use: your results are our validation.
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Agenda
The course is an intensive interactive session designed to leverage your experiences so that you can learn the practice of Scrum in the context of what you know. We will be leveraging the diverse backgrounds of the attendees through facilitated discussion and simulation. The following concepts will be covered:
• Overview of Scrum and Agility
• What Agility is and why it works
• What Scrum is and why it works
• Balancing Structure and Conversation
• Sprints and Natural Rhythms
• Leveraging Natural Rhythms and Time boxing
• Connecting Sprints Together
• Inspect & Adapt
• Establishing a flow of product delivery
• Roles and Responsibilities
• ScrumMaster, Product Owner and The Team
• Sprint Planning and Release Planning
• Product Backlog & Sprint Backlog
• Informed strategic and tactical views
• User Stories, Other Stories and Building Robust Capabilities
• Building ROI in one step at a time
• How to maintain team focus
• Plans which adapt to emerging situations
• Sprint Review (Demo and Retrospective)
• Engaging critical business involvement to validate
• How to encourage ownership and accountability
• Engaging awareness to foster self-organization
• Emerging design to deal with unforeseen demands
• The power of done and incremental development
• Well Formed Teams
• What is a Well-Formed Team*
• Build trust, gain rapport and move faster
• Great teams & Scrum environments
• From fully collocated to fully distributed
• Cross-functional teams and how to build them
• Building and sustaining teams that perform
• Teams as Capital Assets
• Scaling, the Enterprise and Multi-Team Environments
• Tracking Progress to Inform Decision Making
• Estimating and sizing work items
• Burndown charts & Burnup charts
• Schedule performance, cost performance and business value
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Mar 23, 2010: Complete Agile Training at Intertech, Inc
This two day course provides an overview of agile software development principles and practices. There will be discussions about various agile methodologies, such as Scrum, XP and Lean. The focus of this course is on the various elements of the agile process, such as user stories, iteration planning, and retrospectives. The hands-on labs provide an opportunity to put into practice specific techniques around each element of the agile process. The participants will leave with an understanding of agile practices and the ability to apply them immediately.
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Mar 23, 2010: Phoenix Rails User Group - March (NetRecorder) at Gangplank HQ Offices
Chris Young a local agile ruby on rails consultant from Integrum will be talking about Net Recorder. Net Recorder is a gem to test web services.
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Jun 1, 2010: Polar Bears: A Tundra in San Diego at San Diego Zoo
The focal point of the bears' exhibit is, naturally, the pool. From the underwater viewing room you can see how agile and playful these Arctic bruins really are. In fact, they're known to swim right up to the glass to check out all the humans on display.
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