Take your agile development to the next level with Mike Cohn

During this one-day workshop you will learn how to break that cycle by learning and practicing skills that will help create useful plans that lead to reliable decision-making. You will leave with a solid understanding of and experience at agile release planning and iteration planning. We will look at various approaches to estimating including unit-less points and ideal time. The course will describe four techniques for deriving estimates, including how to use the popular Planning Poker® technique. We will look at techniques to create a plan that dramatically improves the project's chances of on-time completion.

Participants Will Learn

• The importance of estimating size and deriving duration
• The differences between story points and ideal time
• The advantages of an abstract measure of size
• Techniques for estimating
• When and how to re-estimate
• How and when to perform release and iteration planning
• Tips for communicating about estimates and plans

Covered are topics such as establishing and leading self-organizing teams, effective teamwork during the sprint, integrating quality, scaling Scrum to hundreds of developers, applying Scrum on a globally distributed team, being agile while meeting regulatory compliance requirements, enlisting the human resources and facilities groups as allies, and measuring and proving the benefits of Scrum.

Also covered is everything you need to know to initiate and guide a successful transition to agile. By iterating toward agility through the proper use of improvement communities, an organization can create the culture of continuous improvement necessary for long-term success with agile.

Participants Will Learn

• How the same process used to start the transition effort can be used to spread agile or Scrum across the enterprise.
• Everything you need to know to be successful with large and distributed teams.
• How the roles of project managers, functional managers, programmers, testers, data professionals, architects, analysts, and other change with agile.
• How to incorporate technical design, interaction desing, and architecture inte agile projects.
• How to encourage improvement communities to form and drive the hard work of organizational change.
• How to work with other departments in the organization to reinforce and retain the changes an agile process brings.
• Tips and tricks from the instructor's fifteen years of using Scrum in a wide variety of environments.