Interested in Agile approaches to management? Do you need to or would like to work within an Agile team? Do you use agile approaches to development? Do you think your company is agile?

Course Description

This course will introduce you to an agile approach to management known as Scrum. The goal is to give you the basic skills needed to work within or manage agile development teams.

Topics we will cover include:

• Scrum – An agile tool for management.
• Scrum Artifacts – Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, Burn down Charts
• Estimation using Scrum Poker
• Scrum Players – Product Owner, Scrum Master, Team, Pigs and Chickens
• Scrum Process – Daily Scrum, Sprint Review Meeting, etc.
• XP, Crystal and Scrum – How it all fits together.

After the course → Course Materials

The Scrum Guide was handed out before class.  During the class, parts of it were distributed to different groups, who presented their portion to the rest of the class.

The lecture slides that Eric presented are now available: MultiUni – IT150 Intro to Scrum and Agile

Eric also created and shared a spreadsheet template that supports the Scrum artifacts Sprint Backlog and Product Backlog.

Logistics

How?

This special course is organized as a lecture in English on a single evening.

When?

Thursday, October 8, 2009  6:30pm – 8:30pm

Where?

East Agile
107/4 Vuon Chuoi, Q.3, TP. HCM

Who’s teaching?

Guest lecturer Eric — studied at San Jose State University, implemented partial scrum at his company, currently teaching IT in Vietnam

How much?

Free

How to register?

» Apply here → Registration is closed

After the course → Survey & data

# spaces available: initially 50, then 24-26, at last minute 40
# people who applied: 48
# people accepted: 31
# people accepted who attended: 22
# people accepted on the premises: 6
# people who attended: 28

How you can help

• Email this web page to your friends, or invite them to the Facebook Event for IT150
• Post the flyer online or as hardcopy.

Sponsors for this course

(Sponsors are not affiliated with MultiUni which is an independent community-run organization)