Course Environment - Workshop Style1

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Maximum Participants

35


Contact Information

Craig Larman, craig@craiglarman.com. +1 214 914 7593


Course Notes and Text

  • There is a course PDF for the presentations. We may decide to give the students a file copy to view on a laptop or a paper copy, depending on situation.
  • Students are required to read Agile Project Management with Scrum by Ken Schwaber before the course.


Room, Walls, Whiteboards

  • People will be organized into table-teams, averaging 5 or 6 people per team. Thus, we need NumStudents/5 tables; e.g., 6 or 7 tables if 35 students. The tables are ideally in separate islands, circular or square, with a team at each.
  • Don’t make it a crowded room; there are a number of exercises that involve the teams moving around.

There are several wall exercises, involving flip chart paper or PostIt Note layouts; each team needs some unencumbered clear wall space for this.

Projectors and Screens

  • 1 computer projector.
  • 1 white projector screen at the front of the room (for the computer and overhead projector).


Table Layout

  • Tables should not be against the walls; we are using the walls as a main working area in this course.
  • A “U” shape organization of the tables is optimal for education, and thus required. Least optimal is rows of tables facing an instructor; this is not allowed.
  • A "teacher table" near the front in the open space of the “U” shape of tables, for placing the projectors and coach laptop.


Computers, Software and Networking

  • There are a few short exercises on spreadsheets. These are team exercises (average 5 persons per team). Thus, at least one computer is required for each team; two is nicer. Therefore, ask people to bring a laptop if they have one.
  • A power supply will be useful for each table, though in the worst case, students can recharge batteries at powerstrips by walls. Please ensure there are some powerstrips “somewhere”.
  • No network connection is necessary.
  • No network is required.


Other Supplies

  • flip chart paper for student exercises
  • masking tape (to hold up flip chart paper)
  • 7 packages of typical 3-5 inch Post-It notes
  • lots of black whiteboard marker pens
  • 1 package of regular 8.5x11 paper
  • scissors


Picture of Classroom Setup

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