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GT ISLIG and IT&Telecom SIG
Joint Event
– Oct. 15, 2009

Good Scrum: Practicing the Fundamentals and Avoiding Process Hubris

Presenter

Douglas E. Shimp, CST

Host

Panos Economopoulos

Date

Thursday Oct 15, 2009

Time

6:00 PM  – 8:30 PM

Location

Wallberg Building
184-200 College Street
Room 130
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Douglas E. Shimp is a CST (Certified ScrumMaster Trainer) requirements/Use Case expert and Agile Process coach. As a Senior Consultant and Partner with 3Back LLC, he has taken an applied approach to his consulting practice and is regularly involved in helping others by applying agile techniques in the context of client challenges. His work with different industry verticals has given him a broad exposure to common patterns of agile adoption, tuning and application. He is a speaker at annual conferences and delivers training events in Scrum and Agile methods.

Doug has 18 years experience in the technology field. One of his distinctions is his focus on the interaction of technology and corporate cultural issues. He is currently writing a book on "Advanced Topics in Scrum". He keeps a daily micro blog on Applied Scrum Thoughts on Twitter and can be followed as “scrum_coach”.

 

Presentation synopsis

Good Scrum: Practicing the Fundamentals and Avoiding Process Hubris

Doing Scrum well, consistently and still be able to embrace change when needed is all about the fundamentals. As in basketball or soccer, you are never done practicing dribbling as in Scrum you are never done practicing fundamentals. People often try to move beyond scrum fundamentals but, as this seminar will explain that makes little sense. When people do talk this way, it is usually just a misunderstanding of what good scrum looks like and why it really works. This 1 hour seminar will be focused on the elements that make up good scrum. We will explore how those fundamentals can be used to build complex products and excellence in applied practice. Don't fall prey to process hubris.

Good Scrum is about Teams producing Results in an agile way. Scrum Teams achieve results anyway they can by using a simple set of rules to guide effort. We will describe scrum as a simple applied model so that a central understanding of scrum can be built. This talk will conclude with a Quick Summary of Scrum and a simple self assessment.

Scrum teams are renowned for high-quality products, self-organization, eliminating waste, and releasing early & often. It is becoming a method of choice for dealing with complex product development. Scrum is a simple framework that can be understood, implemented and started within a few short days. The Scrum pathway results in a well formed team that can be deployed for tremendous business advantage.

Learning Objectives

- To understand the scrum framework for the Teams, the Backlogs, the Release, the Sprint
- To pull together a view of the fundamentals
- Overview of the simple rules that bind it all together and what makes Scrum hard to master
- Take a simple self scoring summary to see how well you are doing Scrum

 

Agenda

Timetable:

6:00 PM Doors open for registrations and refreshments will be served 
6:50 PM Announcements & Introductions
7:00 PM Presentation starts
8:25 PM Thank you note
8:30 PM Event closes
 

Registration Fees

 

PMI Members - $15.00 (provide number)
Non PMI Members or Guests - $25.00
(Includes 5% GST)

PDU

PDUs: 1.5

Knowledge Area: 10 (All)
Process Area: 06 (All)
Application Area: 09 (Information System)

 

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