TRAINING: ADVANCED SCRUM MASTER TRAINING

DESCRIPTION
The ScrumMaster role is a challenging one; ScrumMasters are expected to be facilitators, servant-leaders, mentors, advisors and process gurus. It’s a tough job. As an organization progresses with Scrum, dysfunction begins to surface and many impediments are unearthed. This is inevitable. It is common at this time for the organization to want to drop Scrum and return to previous ways of working. It takes a strong ScrumMaster to mentor both his team and the wider organization through such difficult times.

The Advanced ScrumMaster training course offers a tool kit to ScrumMasters for navigating the turbulent waters of organizational change. The course is aimed at software professionals who have already taken the CSM training and are actively practicing Scrum.

This is not a quick-fix solution (those do not exist) but an in-depth exploration of facilitation and problem solving techniques. Through lecture, discussion, role-play and hands-on exercises participants will experience different ways of approaching problems and discover how to draw relevant solutions best suited to their own context.

Drawing from real-world Agile experience and a deep understanding of group dynamics and paradigm shifting within the workplace the facilitators will guide the participants through their own journey of discovery. At the end of the course the participants will have both a clearer vision of how to face their current challenges and an awareness of how to apply their own personal skills, qualities and experiences to their role of ScrumMaster.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND
Certified ScrumMasters, Senior Project Managers, Product Managers, Technical Leads, and others in influential positions who need to take Scrum to the next level in their organizations.

PREREQUISITES
This class assumes knowledge and hands-on experience implementing scrum. Attendees should be Certified ScrumMasters and others with significant Agile experience who are ready to move to the next level.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Learn how to deal with your own personal challenges in implementing scrum effectively on your teams. Learn how to scale agile to the next level. Learn techniques for how to better manage distributed teams. Increase knowledge and skills in user story creation and estimation.

DATES & LOCATIONS
August 25-26, 2008: Texas - To register contact Ivan Jackson CLICK HERE
October 2-3, 2008: Texas - To register contact Ivan Jackson CLICK HERE

For more information on any of our training and coaching offerings, contact Michele Medore Black, Training Manager at mblack@ccpace.com or call 703.251.5395.