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In-house Scrum Training

Private professional Scrum training for your Teams. Consistent feedback from clients has shown that training the entire team drastically increases success rates. Group discounts apply.

Scrum is rapidly becoming a mainstream project approach. There has been a vast increase in the number of Agile projects both oversees and here in New Zealand. Clarus has been at the forefront of Scrum since 2002 when Clarus founder Edwin Dando started applying it to projects he worked on. Since then Clarus has implemented Scrum in many companies throughout New Zealand including some well-known household brands.

We have found that the most effective way to implement is a mixture of training, coaching and leadership.  We start with an in-house Scrum Master course and typically follow this with leading and coaching a client through their first few Sprints (iterations).


Course Overview

In this two-day course, you will apply the Scrum framework on a project to build a new product. You will learn what it feels like to be on a Scrum team—experiencing many of the challenges you’re likely to face—while being coached by someone involved with the application of Scrum at many organizations. This “learning by doing” style of instruction demands your open mind and active participation.

We will apply the experiential activities to discussion of advanced topics such as how to use Scrum in multiple-team organizations, how to measure progress empirically at a macro level, release planning to maximize ROI, and why such a simple framework disrupts organizations to be the best they can be.


Topics Covered

Day One

  • Introduction
  • What is Scrum?
  • The Product Backlog
  • Writing User Stories
  • Agile Estimating
  • Prioritization of the Product Backlog
  • Measuring Progress
  • Retrospectives
  • Building the thing right

Day Two

  • The ScrumMaster
  • The Product Owner
  • Scrum Teams
  • Sprints
  • Release Planning
  • Multi-Team Development
  • Q&A
  • Wrap up activities

Course Material

Participants will receive printed and bounded material on the first day of class. The material will be enhanced with slides and other material.


Prerequisite

We expect you to have some prior knowledge about Scrum. A good start is “the Scrum Guide” on www.scrum.org.

Being a ScrumMaster demands a lot of skill. However, once starting the journey to transform the organization there will be impediment after impediment that will challenge the implementation of Scrum. So to use Scrum there needs to be skilled ScrumMasters to take on this challenge.


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