Agile Project Management using SCRUM (Earn 8 PDU's) July 20, 2011

Objective:
• Impart the right scrum knowledge to the participants, as envisaged by the founders of SCRUM.
• Equip the participants to start SCRUMMing, immediately after the training.
• Certify the successful participants as 'Qualified Scrum Professional' (QSP), by the Project Management Research Institute, based on the test conducted at the end of the course.
• All participants will receive a course completion certificate.
• Ready the participants for the Professional Scrum Master (PSM) by Scrum.org (USD 100 dollars)
Who should attend?
• Senior managers
• Project managers
• Team leads
• Architects
• Computer programmers
• Q.A professionals
• Product owners
• Process engineers
Any one who wants to master SCRUM

If you are very new to SCRUM, in order to get a fair idea about SCRUM framework, download a free copy of SCRUM guide, visit www.scrum.org.

Key takeaways:
• Complete knowledge of SCRUM framework, Value systems
• Clarity on the roles and responsibilities of Product owner, SCRUM master, Team members
• Soft copy of the slides
• Access to arpoh.com web application for One year, unlimited access to arpoh web based application for distributed agile.
• Support from the mentor (online / telephone) while implementing SCRUM.
• 8 contact hours certificate, which can be used for reporting PDUs
Course Contents:
• Scrum Overview
• Scrum values
• The key roles within SCRUM
• The key artifacts within SCRUM
• Time boxes within SCRUM
• Understanding the product backlog
• Understanding release planning
• Release burn down charts
• Value & Risk based planning
• User stories and story points
• Understanding Sprint planning meetings
• Tracking board
• Sprint burn down charts
• Playing poker
• Understanding Sprints
• Understanding daily scrums
• Understanding sprint review meetings
• Understanding sprint retrospectives
• Velocity calculations
Lessons learnt from past implementations

Experiencing SCRUM
A mock project following the SCRUM framework
Test

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