Kent A. Johnson (kent.johnson@agiledigm.com) is Chief Technical Officer for AgileDigm, Incorporated.  AgileDigm is an international consultancy that was formed in 2001 to support an agile paradigm for process improvement.  AgileDigm is a partner of both the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) and Scrum Training Institute (STI).  These partnerships provide unique support for what is becoming known as Agile CMMI.

Kent’s long-term clients include one of the only Agile Organizations in the world to achieve CMMI Maturity Level 5, the highest level of recognition.  Kent is an SEI-certified SCAMPI High Maturity Lead Appraiser, an SEI-authorized CMMI^® instructor, and a Certified ScrumMaster.

Internationally, Kent has helped clients in over 25 countries to improve their systems and software processes. He has helped clients move from Maturity Level 1 to Level 5 using both the CMM and CMMI.  He has conducted over 50 formal appraisals, including several high maturity SCAMPI Class A appraisals.  He is co-author of Interpreting the CMMI: A Process Improvement Approach, Second Edition, Auerbach (2008) and several other books.

He is past Chairman, International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE) Systems Architecture Working Group.

Prior to joining AgileDigm, he was the Director of Systems Engineering for TeraQuest Metrics, Inc. (later acquired by Borland Software).  While at Borland, he served as the project manager for one of the largest process improvement projects within Europe at NATO in the Netherlands and Belgium and led the Process Improvement Group within Borland’s EMEA (Europe, Middle East, and Africa) Region.

He is a former Senior Member of the Technical Staff and Program Manager of the Process and Methods Program at the Software Productivity Consortium (SPC – now Systems and Software Consortium).  While at the SPC, he co-authored and led the team that created the software and system development method used by over 800 engineers in a dozen companies for the development of the F-22 Advanced Tactical Fighter.  Prior to joining the SPC, Kent was a Senior Engineering Scientist at Emerson Electric, where he successfully managed the development and integration of several complex software-intensive systems.

He has conducted presentations and tutorials at conferences worldwide including US SEPG conferences, European SEPG conferences (Amsterdam and London), Latin America SEPG Conference (Argentina), Software Engineering Systems Analysis and Modeling Conference (Stockholm), INCOSE Conferences (USA), Java and Object Orientation Conference (JAOO-France), and Software Technology Conferences (USA).

The goal of this one day course is to help ScrumMasters obtain the knowledge to effectively use Scrum with CMMI. This course will run 9:00 am to 5:00 pm the day following the Scrum Training Institute’s standard two day Certified ScrumMaster course and will build on the lessons learned in the first two days.

Scrum and CMMI are often at odds with each other. What does each approach bring to the table? Scrum promotes the idea of focusing on the most important product issues first and supports frequent communication. CMMI brings a structure that promotes consistency and discipline to avoid waste and rework. So, why should we try to combine both approaches? Is this combination a good idea?

Scrum is a systematic, repeatable way of doing things – important for CMMI. A good Scrum implementation supports areas important to a good CMMI implementation, including project management, engineering, organizational change, code review, continuous integration, and automated testing in the build process.

Introducing Scrum into an organization is fraught with impediments. Additional impediments occur when striving for hyperproductive Scrum. We explain how using the CMMI’s enterprise focus has addressed many of these impediments.

In this course, participants will learn how:
• a lightweight CMMI implementation can move Scrum to hyperproductivity
• a well-defined Scum implementation can move an organization through the CMMI levels.

Team exercises will build on the exercises from the first two days of the Certified ScrumMaster course and will cover:
• enterprise implementation of Scrum
• training the team
• using checklists to reach hyperproductivity.

Course Materials
Materials include copies of the briefing slides and a copy of the technical report “CMMI or Agile: Why Not Embrace Both!” Students successfully completing this course will receive an official signed certificate.
Intended Audience

This course is intended for individuals that have attended Scrum Training Institute’s standard two day Certified ScrumMaster course including managers, team members, and process engineers in organizations developing and maintaining software-intensive systems.

Teacher: Kent A. Johnsen

Language: English

Location: Trifork A/S, Margrethe Pladsen 4, 8000 Århus C

Duration: 1 day, from 9.00 to 17.00

Price: Dkr. 7000,- ex VAT, Course materials and meals are included.

Register or phone: +45 8732 8782.

Hvis man vil være sikker på at fange publikums opmærksomhed fra starten, er det ofte en god ide at fortælle en lille historie eller komme med en udfordrende bemærkning om emnet. Det har Jim Coplien fanget. Hans underholdende og provokerende stil har gjort ham til en af de mest populære talere og undervisere indenfor softwareudvikling.

”Agile arbejdsmetoder er som teenage sex: De fleste taler kun om det, og dem der rent faktisk gør det gør det ikke særlig godt”. Citat Jim Coplien.

Nu tilbyder Trifork Academy hele 2 kurser, hvor Jim Coplien deler ud af sin store erfaring med agil udvikling.

Scrum Organizational Patterns (organisationsmønstre) er beskrivelser af ofte forekommende relationsstrukturer, der hjælper en professionel organisation med at opnå sine mål. Disse mønstre er fundet ved at analysere flere professionelle organisationer og identificere fælles strukturer i deres sociale netværk. Scrum Organizational Patterns hjælper specifikt en virksomhed til at forbedre implementeringen af Scrum i organisationen.

Lean Architecture for Agile Software Development viser dig, hvordan du kan få det bedste af den agile verden og samtidig bygge på en robust arkitektur. Det har længe været en genstand for diskussion, at de agile udviklingsmetoder modarbejder tanken om en storslået arkitekturplan, før udvikling påbegyndes. I dette kursus kan du lære, hvordan du ud fra domæneanalysen med en Lean metode kan udvikle en softwarearkitektur, som kan udvikle sig lidt efter lidt med stigende brugerkrav.

Jim Coplien er manden, der har opfundet Organizational Patterns, medstifter af software udviklingens patterns, en pioner indenfor objekt orienteret design i starten af 90’erne. Ligenu arbejder Jim Coplien som software arkitekt og agil konsulent hos Gertrud&Cope i Danmark. Han er også partner i Scrum Training Institute, der levere Scrum undervisning til hele verden.

Hvad er udviklerens rolle i en agil organisation? Den problemstilling støder flere og flere på i takt med at agile metoder som SCRUM vinder indpas i de danske virksomheder. Også i Trifork A/S, hvor vores Software Pilots har arbejdet med agil udvikling og Scrum i over 10 år. Den erfaring vil vi nu dele med andre.

”Det jeg selv har haft brug for, er indsigt i den agile arbejdsproces set med en udviklers øjne. Hvordan skal du som udvikler agere i en agil hverdag. Det vil jeg give mit bud på”, siger Thomas Ardal, der afholder kurser både med fokus på Java og .NET.

I en agil udviklingsproces er det ikke kun vigtigt men essentielt, at der ikke går et halvt år mellem integrationen af systemer. Test drevet udvikling og kontinuerlig integration har været en god løsning i en vandsfaldsmodel. I den agile udvikling er det et krav!

Som udvikler hos Trifork A/S har software pilot Thomas Ardal stor erfaring med de tekniske krav til at arbejde agilt.  Han vil fortælle om sin erfaring med at implementere brugen af TDD, hvilke tools man har til rådighed, og hvad er fordelene og ulemperne. Hvad er best practices, og hvad er anti patterns i forhold til continuous integration. Med andre ord et teknisk orienteret kursus, som alle Scrum Mastere i princippet bør deltage på.

”Det bliver praktisk anlagte kurser, hvor deltagerne får mulighed for at prøve de nye metoder af under kyndig vejledning. Målet er at kursisterne går herfra som agile udviklere”, lover Thomas Ardal.

Læs mere på Trifork Agile .NET Developer og Trifork Agile Java Developer . Interesseret i et skræddersyet firmakursus, så kontakt training@trifork.com.

Scrum is a simple but very effective management tool. Agile Project Management with Scrum differentiates itself radically from traditional project management. It is a highly iterative and incremental process where the team and the stakeholders intensively work together. The Scrum Master basically guides the team’s use of Scrum and helps to identify and overcome obstacles or barriers.

Purpose:

The Certified Scrum Master course was formulated to train and certify Scrum Masters. In this course, participants will learn the fundamental principles of Scrum and everything necessary for getting started with it by experiencing them directly from an industry expert. Participants will be trained on how to:

• break down barriers between development and customer improve a development team’s efficiency and productivity.
• enhance development methods, tools and functionality

The course enables participants to gain hands-on practice with the release backlog, sprint backlog, the daily Scrum meeting and tracking progress.

Certification:

By attending the course, participants receive access to the Scrum Alliance website, and can then take the online multiple choice exam to qualify as a Certified Scrum Master. Upon successful completion of the exam participants will be enrolled as a Certified Scrum Master, which includes a one-year membership in the Scrum Alliance and access to exclusive material and information.

Audience:

The Certified Scrum Master course is aimed for those who want to

lead, participate in, or advance Scrum initiatives in an organization.

Participants may be project managers, administrative managers,

developers, who have experience with projects designed

to develop or improve services and/or products.

Teacher: Jeff Sutherland

Language: English

Location: Tecnopark, Zürich

Duration: 2 days. Both days 9:00 to 17:00.

Price: 2700 CHF incl. VAT incl. course materials and meals.

REGISTER

The prerequisite for the course is that the participants should have read one of the Scrum books such as:

Agile Software Development with Scrum, by Ken Schwabe & Mike Beedle.

Agile Software Development with Scrum
by Ken Schwaber og Mike Beedle

Agile Project Management with Scrum
by Ken Schwaber

The Scrum Papers
by Jeff Sutherland & Ken Schwaber. Download.

Scrum is a simple but very effective management tool. Agile Project Management with Scrum differentiates itself radically from traditional project management. It is a highly iterative and incremental process where the team and the stakeholders intensively work together. The Scrum Master basically guides the team’s use of Scrum and helps to identify and overcome obstacles or barriers.

Purpose:

The Certified Scrum Master course was formulated to train and certify Scrum Masters. In this course, participants will learn the fundamental principles of Scrum and everything necessary for getting started with it by experiencing them directly from an industry expert. Participants will be trained on how to:

• break down barriers between development and customer improve a development team’s efficiency and productivity.
• enhance development methods, tools and functionality

The course enables participants to gain hands-on practice with the release backlog, sprint backlog, the daily Scrum meeting and tracking progress.

Certification:

By attending the course, participants receive access to the Scrum Alliance website, and can then take the online multiple choice exam to qualify as a Certified Scrum Master. Upon successful completion of the exam participants will be enrolled as a Certified Scrum Master, which includes a one-year membership in the Scrum Alliance and access to exclusive material and information.

Audience:

The Certified Scrum Master course is aimed for those who want to

lead, participate in, or advance Scrum initiatives in an organization.

Participants may be project managers, administrative managers,

developers, electricians who have experience with projects designed

to develop or improve services and/or products.

Teacher: Jeff Sutherland

Language: English

Location: Seedamm Plaza, Pfäffikon

Duration: 2 days. Both days 9:00 to 17:00.

Price: 2700 CHF incl. VAT incl. course materials and meals.

REGISTER

The prerequisite for the course is that the participants should have read one of the Scrum books such as:

Agile Software Development with Scrum, by Ken Schwabe & Mike Beedle.

Agile Software Development with Scrum
by Ken Schwaber og Mike Beedle

Agile Project Management with Scrum
by Ken Schwaber

The Scrum Papers
by Jeff Sutherland & Ken Schwaber. Download.

Course details

Kursusbeskrivelse

Kursusbeskrivelse

Course details

Kursusbeskrivelse

English version

Scrum er et simpelt, men på samme tid et effektivt agilt ledelsesværktøj.
Agil projektledelse differentierer sig ligeså radikalt fra traditionel projektledelse, som agile processer adskiller sig fra traditionel metodik. Den agile projektleder coacher frem for at planlægge og instruere. Denne person kaldes en Scrum Master.

Aktuelle ScrumMaster kurser

Formål
Formålet med dette kursus er at certificere deltagerne som Scrum Masters. Deltagerne vil blive introduceret til hvordan man coacher og leder et udviklingsteam, et projekt eller en organisation på vejen mod agilitet. Øvelser, case studies og eksempler anvendes til at forstå, hvordan man bliver en succesfuld Scrum Master.

Kursusdeltagerne trænes i:

• at nedbryde barrierer mellem udvikling og kunde
• at lære kunden, hvordan man maksimerer ROI og opnår de fastsatte mål ved   hjælp af Scrum
• at forbedre udviklingsteamets arbejdsforhold
• at forbedre udviklingsteamets produktivitet
• at forbedre udviklingsmetoder, værktøjer og funktionalitet

Certificering:

Efter kurset vil deltagerne modtage en mail fra Scrum Alliance bl.a. med oplysninger om brugernavn/password. Ved registrering hos Scrum Alliance kan deltageren gennemføre en online multible choice test, som skal beståes for at opnå certificeringen (se mere på http://www.scrumalliance.org/scrum_certification). Efter at deltageren har bestået testen, kan man generere sit certifikat og vil efterfølgende blive registreret som Certificeret Scrum Master på  www.scrumalliance.org

Som certificeret Scrum Master er du autoriseret til at deltage i udviklingen af Scrum metodikken. Der er i dag mere end 50.000 certificerede Scrum Masters på verdensplan.

Målgruppe og forudsætninger
Udgangspunktet for at deltage i Scrum certificeringen er forståelse for det basale i projektledelse samt et ønske om at vide mere om, hvordan Scrum fungerer og implementeres i en organisation.
Deltagerne kan være projektledere, administrative ledere, udviklere el. lignende, der har erfaring med projekter, der har til formål at udvikle eller forbedrer services eller produkter.

Varighed: 2 dage, begge dage fra kl. 9.00 – 17.00

Pris: DKR 12.500 ekskl. moms (DKR 13.500 ved 2 undervisere), inkl. kursusmateriale og forplejning

Tilmelding: Aktuelle ScrumMaster kurser

Forudsætningen for at deltage er, at deltageren har læst én af Scrum bøgerne f.eks. Agile Software Development with SCRUM, by Ken Schwaber &  Mike Beedle.

Agile Software Development with Scrum
Af Ken Schwaber og Mike Beedle

Agile Project Management with Scrum
af Ken Schwaber

The Scrum Papers
af Jeff Sutherland & Ken Schwaber. Download her.

Dansk version

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. This person is called a ScrumMaster.

ScrumMaster training calendar

The purpose of this course is to train ScrumMasters. The participants will learn how to make a development team, a project, or an organization agile. Exercises, case studies, and examples are used to bring home the realization of how to be a successful ScrumMaster.

Each individual is trained to be able to assume the following responsibilities:

• Remove the barriers between development and the customer
• Teach the customer how to maximize ROI and meet their objectives through Scrum
• Improve the working conditions for the development team
• Improve the productivity of the development team
• Improve the engineering practices and tools so each increment of functionality is potentially shippable

Each participant will receive a copy of the Scrum training materials.

Certification
From October 1st 2009 participant are required to pass an online exam (multiple choise) to be Certified Scrum Master. You’ll have 90 days after the course to pass the exam. For more information please see Scrum Master Exam at Scrum Alliance.

When passing the exam you will be listed as Certified Scrum Masters at Scrum Alliance. As a Certified Scrum Master you are authorized to participate in ‘open’ development of the Scrum methodology and software and to continue your Scrum education (e.g. Scrum Practitioner).

Target Audience and Preconditions
To participate in the Scrum Certification course it is necessary for the participant to have a basic understanding of project management, together with a desire to learn more about Scrum; how you use it and how it’s implemented in an organization. The participants may be project managers, administrative managers, developers or similar who have experience with projects that develops or improves products or services.

Duration: 2 days, both days from 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Price: DKR 12.500 ex. Vat, including course materials and meals. (2 instructors DKR 13.500)

Register: ScrumMaster training calendar

To attend this course, the participant should at a minimum have read one of the books on Scrum, e.g. “Agile Software Development with SCRUM” by Ken Schwaber and Mike Beedle

Agile Software Development with Scrum
Af Ken Schwaber og Mike Beedle

Agile Project Management with Scrum
af Ken Schwaber

The Scrum Papers
af Jeff Sutherland & Ken Schwaber. Download.

Scrum is a simple but powerful agile management framework. Key to its success is the role of the Product Owner: The Product Owner steers and guides the Scrum project, bridges the gap between end customers, business and development/IT and is responsible for the return on investment (ROI).

Scrum Product Owner calendar

This two-day interactive course equips you with all you need to know about being an effective product owner.

Attending this course will enable you to understand the product owner role in depth and learn the practices necessary to succeed as a product owner. This includes the product owner duties, the role’s authority, and its interaction with the other Scrum roles and stakeholders such as customers, users, sales, marketing, and management. You wlll understand how product planning, product discovery and product definition work in Scrum including taking advantage of early customer feedback and emergent requirements. The course also teaches you how to turn a product vision into a successful product including forecasting the project progress, grooming the product backlog, and effectively collaborating with the ScrumMaster and team in the sprint meetings.

This interactive course teaches practical techniques through instructions and hands-on exercises.

Audience

Product managers, product marketers, business analysts, requirements engineers, project managers and ScrumMasters who would like to deepen their understanding of the Product Owner role and related practices.

Prerequisites

Participants should be familiar with the basics of product management. Participants are required to read the following books prior to class:

• Roman Pichler. Agile Product Management with Scrum: Creating Products that Customers Love. Addison-Wesley. Not published yet. Students can read the online version or print at http://my.safaribooksonline.com/9780321684165
• Ken Schwaber. Scrum Guide. Scrum Alliance. 2009. http://www.scrumalliance.org/resource_download/598

Contents

Introduction

• Agile values and Scrum origins
• Scrum flow
• Empirical management
• Definition of done

Scrum Roles

• Product owner, team and ScrumMaster: authority, responsibility and collaboration
• Product owner team and hierarchies
• Desirable qualities of the product owner
• A day in the life of the product owner
• Common product owner mistakes

Visioning and The Product Vision

• The product vision
• Benefits of the product vision
• The vision in action
• Desirable qualities
• The minimal marketable product
• Simplicity and Ockham’s Razor
• The vision and the product roadmap
• Techniques for creating a powerful vision

The Product Backlog

• Product discovery and requirements in Scrum
• Product backlog characteristics
• Product backlog structure and form
• Grooming the product backlog
• Identifying and describing items: user stories on the product backlog
• Prioritising the product backlog
• Getting the backlog ready for sprint planning
• Progressively decomposing and refining items
• Collaborative grooming workshops
• Non-functional requirements on the product backlog

Release Management

• The project levers and the cone of uncertainty
• Software quality
• Timeboxed releases
• Early and frequent releases
• Quarterly cycles
• Estimating product backlog items with story points and planning poker
• Choosing the right sprint length
• Determining velocity
• Working with the release burndown chart and bar
• Creating the release plan
• Tracking and reporting the project progress

Sprints

• Sprint characteristics
• Formulating powerful sprint goals
• Sprint planning, Daily Scrum, sprint review, and sprint retrospective

Large and Distributed Scrum Projects (optional)

• Brook’s Law
• Organic growth and Conway’s Law
• Team set-up
• Multi-team planning and coordination
• Shared norms and assets
• Dispersed teams
• Distributed Scrum project tips

Transitions (optional)

• Becoming a great product owner
• Developing great product owners
• Making Scrum product ownership stick

Duration: 2 days, both days from 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Price: DKR 12.500 ex. Vat, including course materials and meals

Scrum Product Owner calendar

Teacher: Roman Pichler

Language: English.

Date: February 3.-4. 2010

Location: Trifork A/S, Margrethe Pladsen 4, 8000 Århus C.

Duration: 2 days. Both days from 9:00 – 17:00.

Price: 12.500 ex. Vat, incl. course materials and meals.

Registration: Register eller tlf. 8732 8787

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