Incrementor

e-mail:switchboard@incrementor.com Incrementor - P.O. Box 1289 - Grand Central Station - New York, NY 10163 - 646 223 0352

Scrum Workshop

You participated in a Certified Scrum Master training but you have not had the chance to actually “do” Scrum?

You have a good understanding of the concepts of Scrum but you are not sure “how to” kick-start a Scrum sprint and keep the momentum?

You are an experienced project manager, and you like to know which techniques “apply” to agile project management?

This hands-on course will answer the questions above and many more. The workshop-style session will provide you with a toolkit of different agile project management techniques and practices to get your Scrum project off the ground or rejuvenated. Through a variety of learning methods, including role-playing, pair-learning, instructor-led exercises, case-studies and group exercises every participant will leave equipped a large set of best project management practices.

This course will cover:
  • Quick recap of the Scrum framework
  • Introduction to agile project management
  • Roles and responsibilities in a scrum project (product owner, scrum master and the team)
  • Set-up of an agile team infrastructure
  • Globally distributed development with Scrum
  • Estimation techniques
  • Work with use cases and user stories as requirements
  • Planning sprints
  • Backlog prioritization
  • Agile metrics and reporting
  • Executing retrospectives
  • Motivational and leadership instruments
Audience:

This hands-on course is appropriate for Scrum Masters, Product Owners, Project Managers, Team Leads or anyone else interested in project management using Scrum. PMI Project Management professionals can earn 14 PDUs with this course. Schedule
Boston 05/25/08-05/26/08
New York 05/28/08-5/29/08