Certified Scrum Master Course with Gabrielle Benefield January 31, 2011

Overview:

In the Certified Scrum Master training, participants will learn the fundamental principles of Scrum and gain hands-on practice with the Scrum tools (release backlog, sprint backlog, the daily Scrum meeting, tracking progress with a burndown chart, and more). This interactive two-day course will teach you:

- How to be an effective ScrumMaster
- Improve teamwork
- Launch products sooner
- Improve engineering practices to deliver high-quality products

Upon successful completion of this course, each participant will be enrolled as a Certified ScrumMaster, which includes a one-year Scrum Alliance membership, where additional ScrumMaster-only material and information is available. You can also receive 16 Professional Development Units (PDUs) for this course.

Audience:

The course is applicable to all levels and roles including Managers, Designers, Developers, Testers, Executives, Project Managers and IT.

Prerequisites:

No prior knowledge of Scrum or Agile methods is required although some prior reading is recommended. A good getting started guide can be found at http://www.scrumprimer.com.

Instructor:

Gabrielle Benefield is a Certified Scrum Trainer based in London offering classes in the United Kingdom and Europe. Gabrielle has over 18 years experience building enterprise software and web products at global companies and is a founder of the Scrum Training Institute, with Jeff Sutherland, the co-creator of Scrum, Pete Deemer and Jens Ostergaard.

Gabrielle works with clients from diverse industries including banking, telecommunications, and internet. Gabrielle was Senior Director of Agile Development at Yahoo! leading Yahoo!’s large-scale corporate adoption of Scrum, which encompassed more than 200 teams projects and over 1500 employees in the US, India, Europe, and Asia. She is co-author of The Scrum Primer (http://www.scrumprimer.com), the most widely read introductory guide to Scrum available and became the 12th Certified Scrum Trainer in the world.

Details:

Language: English
Place: Holiday Inn Zürich Messe
Date: 31st January and 1st February 2011
Duration: 2 days. Both days 9:00 to 17:00.
Price: CHF 2295 incl. VAT until 31 Dec. 2010

Link: http://trifork.ch/2011/01/31/certified-scrum-master-training/

Official Website: http://trifork.ch/2011/01/31/certified-scrum-master-training/