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ScrumMaster Certification in Los Angeles

25-26 Aug 2008, Beverly Hills, CA

Get certified by Jeff Sutherland, Co-Creator of Scrum and Scott Downey from MySpace. This course is filling up quickly and may be sold out soon. Sign up now if you want to attend.

This course will be led by Jeff Sutherland, Co-Creator of Scrum in downtown Beverly Hills near Rodeo Drive at The Tower - Beverly Hills Hotel, Beverwil Drive. Beverly Hills, CA 90025. Jeff has been a consultant to MySpace and Scott Downey, MySpace Scrum Evanglist will assist him with this training.

The course will start promptly at 9am each day and run until 5pm. Please arrive at 8:30 the first day for a continental breakfast. Participants should read Ken Schwaber's book, Agile Project Management with Scrum, or Jeff Sutherland's draft of The Scrum Papers before the class as we will assume you know the basics of Scrum.

Jeff Sutherland started the first Scrum at Easel Corporation in 1993. He worked with Ken Schwaber to emerge Scrum as a formal process at OOPSLA ’95. Together, they extended and enhanced Scrum at many software companies and IT organizations and helped write the Agile Manifesto.

Jeff is the CEO of Scrum, Inc. powered by OpenView Venture Partners and is Agile coach to over 20 portfolio companies and to the OpenView venture group staff which runs all its operations with Scrum. As Senior Advisor to OpenView and CTO of PatientKeeper he focuses on using Scrum to transform companies as well as empower software developers. PatientKeeper quadrupled revenue in 2007 and the OpenView venture capital group is using it to create similar high performance portfolio companies. Jeff will share the secret sauce that helps development teams radically improve productivity and quality while providing a more rewarding and fun working environment for developers.

You can learn from Jeff's experience as a consultant to the world's leading software companies. Their experience can help make your Scrum implementation world class. There has been lot's of learning with Jeff at Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, MySpace, Adobe, GE, Siemens, BellSouth, GSI Commerce, Ulticom, Palm, St. Jude Medical, DigiChart, RosettaStone, Healthwise, Sony/Ericson, Accenture, Trifork, Systematic Software Engineering, Exigen Services, SirsiDynix, Softhouse, Philips Medical, Barclays Global Investors, Constant Contact, Wellogic, Inova Solutions, Medco, Saxo Bank, Xebia, Insight.com, SolutionsIQ, Crisp, Johns Hopkins Applie Physics Laboratory, Motley Fool, Planon, OpenView Venture Partners, Juske Bank, BEC, Camp Scrum, DotWay AB, Ultimate Software, Danube, Rally Development, Version One, and many other companies.

Jeff is an expert on distributed/outsourced Scrum (see Agile 2008) and on implementing Scrum in a CMMI Level 5 company. He has has scaled and distributed Scrum using his last five companies as laboratories. His entire current company at PatientKeeper is run by a MetaScrum, and is one of the most advance implementions of Scrum worldwide. Mary Poppendieck, in her latest book on Lean Software Development, comments: Five years ago a killer application emerged in the health care industry: Give doctors access to patient information on a PDA. Today there is no question which company won the race to dominate this exploding market; PatientKeeper has overwhelmed its competition with its capability to bring new products and features to market just about every week. The sixty or so technical people produce more software than many organizations several times larger, and they do not show any sign that the size of their code base is slowing them down.

A key strategy that has kept PatientKeeper at the front of the pack is an emphasis on unprecedented speed in delivering new features. It will not surprise anyone who understands Lean that PatientKeeper has to maintain superb quality in order to support its rapid delivery. CTO Jeff Sutherland explains it this way:

“Rapid cycle time:

* Increases learning tremendously
* Eliminates buggy software because you die if you don't fix this.
* Fixes the install process because you die if you have to install 45 releases this year and install is not easy.
* Improves the upgrade process because there is a constant flow of upgrades that are mandatory. Makes upgrades easy.
* Forces quick standardization of software via new features rather than customization and one off.
* Forces implementation of sustainable pace. You die a death of attrition without it.
* Allows waiting to build new functionality until there are 4-5 customers who pay for it. This is counterintuitive, and caused by the fact everything is ready within 90 days.”

"I find that the vast majority of organizations are still trying to do too much stuff, and thus find themselves thrashing. The only organization I know of which has really solved this is PatientKeeper." Mary Poppendieck

In this course, participants will learn how to stop thrashing and start executing along with everything necessary for getting started with Scrum. There are very few rules to Scrum so it is important to learn its fundamental principles by experiencing them directly from those who have implemented the best Scrums in the software industry. Participants gain hands-on practice with the release backlog, sprint backlog, the daily Scrum meeting, tracking progress with a burndown chart, and more. Participants experience the Scrum process through a “59-minute Scrum” and the "XP Game” which simulate Scrum projects through non-technical group exercises.

The course will run from 9am-5pm each day.

Following the course, each participant is enrolled as a Certified ScrumMaster, which includes a one-year membership in the Scrum Alliance, where additional Certified ScrumMaster-only material and information are available.

PMPs:
You can receive 16 Professional Development Units (PDUs) for this course.
Course Material:

Participants will receive course materials for review upon registration. Click here for course syllabus.

The CSM course was formulated to train and certify ScrumMasters and is used worldwide for ScrumMaster training. The book, Agile Project Management with Scrum, by Ken Schwaber is required reading for the course and the course is based on the primary Scrum book, Agile Development with Scrum.

Of course, there will be updated material and training exercises in the course which you cannot get from books. The entire syllabus will be made available upon registering for the course so you can look it over and bring it with you to the sessions.

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Agile 2008 Guide - Thursday Morning

Agile 2008 is the premier conference of the Agile world. There are going to be almost 2000 participants and about 400 different sessions to attend. It means plenty of interesting conversations and a lot of activities to choose from. However, it also means that you have to make a choice between many different options. During the main part of the conference you have to choose between 40 to 50 different sessions.

This part of the guide covers Thursday August 7, 10:30 - 12:00 time slot. In the table below you can find links to the full description, author bio and the answer to the all important question "Why would you want to go there?" All the sessions with white background take 90 minutes, all the sessions with orange background take 180 minutes (and therefore continue from the previous time slot), all the sessions with the light blue or light green background take less, than 90 minutes.

If you feel that some summaries are inaccurate, please, comment - I will correct the mistakes.

You can find more information about the conference at http://AgileSoftwareDevelopment.com/Agile2008

Topic	Speakers		Why you would want to go there
Coding Contest	Christoph Steindl Christian Federspiel		Come to this developer contest if you are a developer wishing to have some coding fun while experiementing with the new or competitive approaches.
TDD Clinic: .Net and C#	David Starr		Come to this clinic if you are a developer who knows something about unit testing and would like to leard more about test-driven development in C#.
Automated Testing Clinic: Testing with a Purpose	Kay Johansen Christian Hargraves		Come to this clinic if you know what test-driven development is about, but often you find yourself buried with the large amount of poorly understandable tests.
Continuous Integration Clinic	Maciej Zawadzki		Come to this clinic if you are a spftware developer or build manager everything you’ve heard about the continuous integration is just the name of the practice.
Backing the Truth into a Corner	Keith Braithwaite		Unfortunately I failed to understand what this workshop is exactly about. Something related to understanding why the executable requirements work.
Using TDD with Concurrent Applications	Brett Schuchert David Nunn		Come to this workshop if you are a Java developer who knows how to apply TDD in general, but finds it difficult to test the concurrent code.
Game Design Workshop	Hubert Smits		Come to this workshop if you are a coach who frequently wants to frame the exercises into a game. You will learn how to create them.
Meta-Agile: Using Agile Methods to Deliver Agile Training	Mishkin Berteig		Come to this session if you are a trainer or a teacher (not necessarily teaching Agile methods). You will learn how to apply the Agile methods in training from the person who applies them himself.
KFC Development - Finger Lickin' Good	Karl Scotland Aaron Sanders		Come to this workshop if you’ve heard a little about Lean and are willing to explore it more. You will hear about the Yahoo! expeience.
Operating on the Creative Edge: Applying Improvisation Techniques in Agile	Jim York Tobias Mayer		Come to this workshop if you are a coach who want to learn more about how to help the teams learn how to be creative and and improvise for the better.
Beginner's Mind--The Zen of Agile	David Hussman Jean Tabaka		Come to this workshop if your teams frequently lean into overplanning, overthingking and over engineering.
Vision Pluridisciplinaire: Générer une charte de projet en un jour, en enfermant des gens de point de vue divers dans une salle	Alain Désilets		Come to this tutorial if you speak French and understand the description.
Creating Cultures Where Agile Emerges	Pollyanna Pixton		Come to this tutorial if you plan to frequently work with different teams as a coach.
Mr Agile Goes To Washington: The Impact of Politics on Agile Projects	Angela Martin Rachel Davies		Come to this workshop if you happen to find winds of politics preventing good ideas from flourishing in your organization. You will take part in developing and sharing practices that will help to  handle the political situations that face agile projects today
User Story Mapping: making sense out of your user story backlog	Jeff Patton		Come to this tutorial if you sit on the customer side of the project, work with user stories, but often find the vision blurred ad becoming difficult to communicate as new and stories are added.
How to support a collaborative atmosphere in distributed projects?	Lars Arne Skår Jan-Erik Sandberg		Come to this workshop if you are having issues with the level of collaboration with your distributed projects and would like to collectively figure out what could be done about the difficulties.
The Secrets of High-Performance Agile Implementations	Gil Broza		Come to this tutorial if you are an organizational leader or manager starting the Agile adoption.
Sketchboards and Prototypes: Agile methods for better and faster UX solutions	Dan Harrelson Leah Buley		Come to this tutorial if you come from UI or UE and have troubles with iterating your designs as quickly as developers are able to complete their iterations.
From High-performing to Hyper-performing Agile teams	Facilitator: Gabrielle Benefield Panel: Jeff Sutherland, Rob Mee, Jason Titus		Come to this panel if you are looking for examples of very successful Scrum implementations in the large companies. Panelists include a Yahoo! deirector and a co-author of Scrum.
Measuring Agile in the Enterprise: 5 Success Factors for Large-Scale Agile Adoption	Michael Mah		Yet another report about a successful distributed Scrum implementation. This one is claimed to be measured particularly well.
Good Virus / Bad Virus: How Organization Culture Impacts Agile Adoptions (and Vice Versa)	Michael Spayd		Come to this talk if you want to understand whether Agile fits your organization well.
Open jam: create your own session at the conference			A chance to discuss what interests you most.
JTestMe - improving test feedback and reducing build times with dynamically defined optimised smoke tests		Joshua Graham	Come to this demo if you are a Java developer looking for ways to decrease the amount of tests run on the check-ins.
Evolution of the Tools and Practices to Achieve Organizational Change		Fabrizio Cannizzo Paul Moser	Come to this experience report if you a Java developer who works in a distributed team and is not happy with the current tools.
Adopting agile testing practices when legacy tools and practices rule !		Xavier Warzee	Come to this talk if you are sold on Agile and would like to promote it from the grass root level even if the organization doesn’t want the change.
Domain Specific Testing Languages		Michael Phoenix Rand Huso	Come to this tutorial if you are a developer or tester, don’t know much about domain specific languages and would like your users to participate in the test creation.
A Hundred Days of Continuous Integration		Ade Miller	Come to this experience report if you are looking for ways to convince your distributed team give continuous integration a try.
Team pace - Keeping build times down		Graham Brooks	Sheraton Hall C
Effective and pragmatic Test Driven Development		Andrew Rendell	Sheraton Hall C
Live aid: Participate in a real agile project at the conference			Come there if you want to feel the real agile team working. Note that you might participate fully or drop for 10 minutes if you have a free time slot.
TDD Principles for Database Development		Dennis Lloyds Jr Sebastian Meine	Come to this talk if you apply TDD for code, but don’t yet apply it for databases. You will learn a number of techniques.
Robust Performance of Complex Systems		Michael Nygard Mary Poppendieck	Come to this workshop if you want to share and build upon your experience in creating the robust complex systems.
Why So Little Questioning? Skeptical Humanist Seeks Same for Discrete Afternoon Encounters		Michael Bolton	Come to this session of another type if you feel like analyzing the conference itself and observing where the trends are heading (e.g. whether tools or people are emphasized). Note, that some preparation is expected.
A better culture change approach for busy practitioners		Mike Russell Amy Levine	Come to this tutorial if you feel like your organizational change approaches lack consistency and you would like to improve them. A particular framework will be presented.
Agile Planning in Action		James Shore	Come to this tutorial if you know what agile planning is about, but don’t practice it much yet. You will go through a simulation of building a real product.
Guerilla Agile: Stop Playing Schedule Games		Johanna Rothman	Come to this talk if you feel like you management is playing too much with the arbitrary schedules and you would like to know how to change that.
Oles 8 steps for Agile Mentors		Ole Jepsen	Come to this tutorial if you are an Agile coach or planning to become a coach and would like to learn the best tricks for traditional-to-Agile transitions. Ole will share his method.
The Road from Project Manager to Agile Coach		Lyssa Adkins	Come to this workshop if you are or were a project manager going to become an Agile coach. Together with a group and the presenter you will collectively identify and possibly learn how change yourself into a coach.
Agile and the Enterprise		Daniel Craig	Vendor talk of Command Information. Yet another consultants.
Scaling Scrum to the Enterprise with Lean Software Development		Alan Shalloway	Vendor talk of Net Objectives. They specialize on Lean Software Development and merging it with Agile.
DSDM Atern: An introduction to Europes leading Agile Framework for Agile Programmes and Projects		Barry Fazackerley	Vendor tutorial on DSDM method. Performed by the DSDM Consortium person.
Case Study – Benchmarking Agile Productivity		Zach Nies	Come to this vendor talk if you believe that tools can help you measure your Agile teams productivity. The study is likely to be biased towards Rally.
Source Code Analysis in an Agile World		Gywn Fisher	Vendor talk on source code analysis. Performed by a Klocwork person.

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Great news for those who like AgileSoftwareDevelopment.com and for the site writers. We have been added to the alltop's Programming section. Alltop positions itself as a "digital magazine rack of the Internet" and is backed up by a former Apple evangelist, venture capitalist and one of my favorite bloggers Guy Kawasaki.

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Место проведения: Киев.
Даты: 9-10 октября (даты могут измениться).
Тренер: Mark Pushinksy.
Стоимость: 890-970 USD с человека (в зависимости от даты регистрации и оплаты).
Тренинг проводится на английском языке.
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