This course is designed to assist traditional project managers, test professionals, analysts and engineers as they transition into their new roles as agile team members, product owners, ScrumMasters, and facilitators of large scale Scrum at the organizational level. The primary focus of the course is on the ScrumMaster role, but anyone needing an understanding of the basic Scrum framework will find this course valuable.

This 2-day event presents the attendee with an outstanding opportunity to become immersed in learning Agile principles and the Scrum Framework. Your instructor will actively engage you, educate you, and most of all stimulate you to think about new ways of working. Come prepared to learn! Come with an open mind! You will leave with some fundamentally new ideas, a surge of energy and, of course, the basis for your CSM certification along with 14 PDUs to keep up your PMP certification and help prepare for the PMI-ACP.

Your ScrumMaster Certification is your first major step in the journey towards this adaptive and empirical form of work organization. It will familiarize you with all the elements of the Scrum framework. Your next step will be to gain the experience necessary to become a Certified Scrum Professional (CSP). Even though this is an introductory course, some persons already experienced in the Scrum framework decide to attend this class because they seek the industry standard CSM certification.

Your trainer has years of experience helping individuals, teams, and organizations adopt Scrum so they will be able to answer your questions from a rich experience base.

Basic Objectives

To display a working understanding of:

Scrum Theory and background

Empiricism

Scrum Meetings

Sprint Planning. Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective

Scrum Roles

ScrumMaster, Product Owner, Scrum Team

Scrum Artifacts

Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, Progress Monitoring Charts, Product Increment

Advanced Objectives

To display a working understanding of:

the Agile approach to project management

the lean and agile principles that underlie Scrum

how Scrum can help them create products that "delight" their users

how to transition to organizational Scrum

Outline

Overview

Industry data

Scrum basics

Context

History and agile/lean context

Scrum and the business culture

Product owner

Development team

ScrumMaster

Scrum for the enterprise

Tim Korson is a Certified Scrum Professional and has years of hands-on product development experience. In addition, he holds a Ph.D. in Computer Information Systems, has published numerous articles on Scrum, and is a frequent speaker on Scrum at major international conferences. Tim has worked with numerous clients in fields as diverse as aerospace, finance, traffic control, telecommunications, medical devices, and education. He brings this extensive experience in the field to this event. His profile and some of his articles can be found athttp://www.scrumalliance.org/profiles/100343-timothy-d-korson

All CSM courses are taught by Certified Scrum Trainers. Taking a CSM course and the corresponding evaluation designates you as a Certified ScrumMaster, which indicates that you have been introduced to the basic concepts you need to perform as a ScrumMaster or team member on a Scrum team. This course also satisfies two elements of the CSD track: Scrum Introduction and Elective.

Those  interested in PDUs from the PMI can get 14 PDUs for attending this class.

Additional information about the class can also be obtained from www.qualsys.org,  tim@qualsys.org or by phone at 423 432-9836