Succeeding with Agile with Mike Cohn

May 3-4, 2010, with Mike Cohn at Nordic Sea Hotel, Stockholm

Mike Cohn returns to Sweden and Citerus in May 2010.
This two-day, advanced course picks up where Scrum Masters and other introductory agile courses end.

Mike Cohn and Citerus proudly invites you to attend this brand new workshop by one of the most experienced agile coaches in the world. In Stockholm, May 3-4 you have the opportunity to take part of the second running ever of this workshop.

About the workshop

This two-day, advanced course picks up where Scrum Master and other introductory agile courses end. Go beyond the basics and learn tips and techiniques necessary to help an organization move beyond initial success to sustained agility. Drawing and expanding on concepts in Mike's Succeeding with Agile book, this course will show you how to get started and get good with agile or Scrum.

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.

Target Audience

This advanced course is suited for anyone who has previously attended an introductory agile or Scrum training course, such as Certified Scrum Master or Certified Scrum Product Owner class. It is also appropriate for anyone with prior agile experience who is looking for answers to the hundreds of questions that arise during any agile adoption.

Mike Cohn

Mike Cohn is the author of Succeeding with Agile:Software Development using Scrum, Agile Estimation and Planning (Prentice Hall PTR 2005) and User Stories Applied For Agile Software Development (Addison-Wesley Professional 2004) as well as several programming books. With more than 25 years of experience, Mike has been a technology executive in companies ranging from start-ups to Fortune 40s, is a founding member of the Agile Alliance and ran his first Scrum project in 1995. http://www.mountaingoatsoftware.com länk till annan webbplats

Citerus

Citerus is Sweden´s premier consulting firm in agile software development. We offer a full range of services related to improving how software is created and maintained, including training, coaching, management and expert technology consulting. Please visit http://www.citerus.se länk till annan webbplats

for more information on how we can assist in increasing your software development success rate.