Professional Scrum Master Course

Presented by Richard Banks

Readify Principal Consultant and Technical Specialist (Agile/ALM)
Professional Scrum Master and Scrum Developer Trainer | Visual Studio ALM MVP

Readify is pleased to be able to deliver this Professional Scrum Master Course. After many years of using Scrum both on projects with our clients, and internally, we have the expertise to bring practical experience to this course.

From Scrum.org

This is a Scrum.org course:

Scrum.org has designed the Professional Scrum Master (PSM) program to have the utmost rigor. The program's courses, assessments, and certifications give participants the knowledge they need to use Scrum effectively, and the credentials they need to communicate this ability in the marketplace.

EVENT DETAILS

Dates: Thursday 3rd - Friday 4th February 2011 

Time: 9am – 5pm each day (registrations open at 8:30am)

Location: Cliftons | Australia Place, Corner St George's Terrace & William Street PERTH

Duration: 2 x full days

Investment: $1595 + GST (includes light refreshments & lunch)

PRESENTER | RICHARD BANKS

Readify Principal Consultant and Technical Specialist (Agile/ALM)
Professional Scrum Master and Scrum Developer Trainer | Visual Studio ALM MVP

Richard Banks has developed software for the last 18 years for a wide range of industries and development platforms and over the years and has filled many roles including developer, team lead, project manager and CIO/CTO.  He is a Certified Scrum Practitioner and Professional Scrum Developer Trainer, runs the Sydney Alt.Net user group and the Talking Shop Down Under podcast, owns and contributes to a few open source projects and has spoken at Tech.Ed and a number of other events and user groups around the country. For some strange reason he gets a real kick out of helping development teams to improve and produce great software. If you want to get in touch he tweets at @rbanks54 and blogs at http://www.richard-banks.org.  He currently works as a Principal Consultant for Readify Readify and is a Microsoft Visual Studio ALM MVP.

THE COURSE

The Professional Scrum Master course is the first significant update of the Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) course that Ken Schwaber first created in 2002. Scrum.org maintains a defined curriculum for the Professional Scrum Master courses and selects only the most qualified instructors to deliver the course. Each instructor brings his or her individual experiences and areas of expertise to bear, but all students learn the same core course content. This improves their ability to pass the Professional Scrum Master assessments and apply Scrum in their workplaces.

COURSE OUTLINE

The Professional Scrum Master course (previously known as the Scrum In Depth course) covers Scrum basics, including the framework, mechanics, and roles of Scrum. But it also teaches how to use Scrum how to optimise value, productivity, and the total cost of ownership of their products. Students learn through instruction and team-based exercises, and they are challenged to think on their feet to better understand what to do when they return to their workplaces.

• Scrum Basics. What is Scrum and how has it evolved?

• Scrum Theory. Why does Scrum work and what are its core principles? How are the Scrum principles different from those of more traditional software development approaches, and what is the impact?

• Scrum Framework and Meetings. How Scrum theory is implemented using time-boxes, roles, rules, and artifacts. How can these be used most effectively and how can they fall apart?

• Scrum and Change. Scrum is different: what does this mean to my project and my organization? How do I best adopt Scrum given the change that is expected?

• Scrum and Total Cost of Ownership. A system isn't just developed, it is also sustained, maintained and enhanced. How is the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of our systems or products measured and optimized?

• Scrum Teams. Scrum Teams are self-organizing and cross-functional; this is different from traditional development groups. How do we start with Scrum teams and how do we ensure their success?

• Scrum Planning. Plan a project and estimate its cost and completion date.

• Predictability, Risk Management, and Reporting. Scrum is empirical. How can predictions be made, risk be controlled, and progress be tracked using Scrum.

• Scaling Scrum. Scrum works great with one team. It also works better than anything else for projects or product releases that involve hundreds or thousands of globally dispersed team members. How is scaling best accomplished using Scrum?

COURSE PREREQUISITES

The Professional Scrum Master Course is primarily targeted at those responsible for the successful use and/or rollout of Scrum in a project or enterprise. Attendees will be able to make the most of the class if they:

• Understand the basics of project management.

• Understand requirements and requirements decomposition.

• Have been on or closely involved with a project that builds or enhances a product.

• Have studied the Scrum Guide.

• Have read one of the Scrum books.

• Want to know more about how Scrum works, how to use it, and how to implement it in an organisation.