Weekend Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) in the Thames Valley 19-20 March March 19, 2011

When
Saturday 19th - Sunday 20th March

Learn the essentials of working as a ScrumMaster or Scrum team member in this course. While the Scrum Alliance provides a list of core concepts that must be covered in the class, each instructor creates his or her own material, allowing courses to differ based on the strengths, interests, and experiences of the instructor.

About the Course
The ScrumMaster Certification is a 2-day course introducing the concepts and application principles of the Scrum framework.
You will learn the essential concepts, roles and the tools of Scrum, providing you with a roadmap for adopting Agile. Learn how to lead development teams towards agile operations by managing product backlogs, planning releases and sprints, tracking and reporting progress, and holding retrospectives.

Upon completion of the course, you are eligible to take an exam, the successful completion of which gains you the designation of Certified ScrumMasters (CSM), a first step in the journey towards this more adaptive form of projectwork and leadership. Included in the course is membership in the Scrum Alliance, where valuable ScrumMaster material and information is available exclusively to CSMs.

About the Trainer
This course is taught by Simon Bennett a Scrum Alliance Certified Scrum Trainer with over 20 years real-world experience in software and hardware development, the last 12 of which have been focussed on using Agile frameworks and methods including Scrum, XP, Crystal & Kanban.

From 2008 through 2010 Simon was also the Product Owner for the Scrum for Team System TFS process template.
Simon has considerable experience in organisational agile adoption, large scale Scrum and using Scrum in an offshore environment, as well as successfully blending Scrum with other methods including UCD.

His wealth of experience brings a unique depth and flavour to the course, as students will learn from real world case studies rather than only theory and simulations.

With regard to delivery, Simon is also a seasoned trainer with over two decades of experience, and a regular speaker at major international conferences. Recent engagements include:

Scrum Gathering South Africa September 2010
“The Incentive Trap” (5 hour deep dive)
Opening Address

Agile 2010, Orlando August 2010
“The Incentive Trap” (3 hour invited tutorial)

Scrum Gathering Orlando March 2010
“The Incentive Trap”

PDC 2009, Los Angeles
“Scrum in the Enterprise with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010”
http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/FT09

Scrum Gathering Munich 2009
“The Prisoner’s Dilemma: Applying Game Theory to Agile Contracting”
“Best Practice in Agile Product Ownership” – Panel Chair
Conference Selection Committee Member

Agile 2009, Chicago
“The Prisoner’s Dilemma: Applying Game Theory to Agile Contracting”
“Why do (so many) testers (still) hate Agile?”

PDC 2008, Los Angeles
“Agile development on the Microsoft Platform”
Scrum Gathering Stockholm 2008
“Lean vs. Agile: Stop fighting, start delivering”

About the Venue
A hearty lunch is provided both days along with food and beverage to sustain the class throughout the weekend.

There is plenty of free parking. Sunningdale is on the London Waterloo - Reading line and is approximately mid way between the two.

Fully catered accommodation on the grounds is also available and is a popular option, please contact DeVere for details.
http://www.devere.co.uk/our-locations/sunningdale-park.html

Payment
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Official Website: http://scrumalliance.org/courses/20110400-certified-scrummaster