Certified Scrum Master, Porto

21st and 22nd, June 2010

This is an official Scrum Alliance Course.

ABOUT THE COURSE

The Certified ScrumMaster Course is a two-day course which introduces the concepts of Agile project leadership using the Scrum methodology. Successful participants will become Certified ScrumMasters, a first step in the journey towards this more adaptive form of project leadership.

Through this CSM training course, students will learn how to plan and run Sprint Planning Meetings, daily Scrum Meetings, Sprint Reviews, Sprint Retrospectives and more.

The course format consists of multiple lecture topics, group exercises and group discussion. Ample time will be devoted to analysis of the “real-world” industry experiences of the ScrumMaster Course instructor based on case study examples and his experience managing Agile projects and coaching Scrum teams

ABOUT THE CERTIFICATION

Students will become Certified ScrumMasters after attending this course and passing a series of small exercises. Successful participants will be listed as CSM on the Scrum Alliance website and will receive a one year membership to the Scrum Alliance.

Project Management professionals (PMP) will receive 14 Professional Development Units.

ABOUT THE INSTRUCTORS

Mitch Lacey is an agile practitioner and trainer and former Microsoft Employee. Mitch has been managing projects for over twelve years and has numerous plan-driven and agile projects under his belt. He is a Certified Scrum Trainer(CST) and a registered Project Management Professional (PMP).

COST AND REGISTRATION

Certification cost is 1000€ + IVA (20%).

In order to register please send an email to . Payment information will be sent as a reply to your email. The price includes 2 days of training and the Scrum Alliance certification and 1 year membership to whoever passes. Also included, are the coffe-breaks and lunch on both days (vegetarian menu is not included).

DATE AND PLACE

Training will be deliverd at Hotel Ipanema Porto . It will begin at 9:30 and end at 18h30.

CONTACT

If you have any doubt or wish to contact us please send email to or call +351 968705359.

PARTNERS

AGENDA

	Subject	Items
1.	Overview of Scrum	Why Scrum works What Scrum is Origins
2.	Sprints	Potentially shippable Architecture on a Scrum project Sprint length and release sprints Abnormal terminations
3.	The ScrumMaster	Responsibilities and mindset Situational ScrumMastering ScrumMaster as team member
4.	The Product Owner	Description and responsibilities Sharing the vision
5.	Product backlog	User stories on the product backlog Backlog-writing workshops INVEST in your backlog
6.	Meetings	The daily scrum Sprint review Sprint retrospective
7.	Sprint planning	Prioritization and the sprint goal Sprint planning meeting
8.	Release planning	Velocity Estimating the product backlog Release planning meeting
9.	Tracking progress	Burndown charts Task boards
10.	The team	Composition and cross-functionality Organizing
11.	Scalability	The scrum of scrums Focus of initial sprints Shared vs. specific product backlogs Scaling the product owner Getting started

The course will be taught in English. For inquiries please send email to