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== Scaling Lean and Agile Development for Large, Multisite & Offshore Products with Large-Scale Scrum ==
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== Full Title ==
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Practices for Scaling Lean & Agile Development: Successful Large, Multisite & Offshore Product Development with Large-Scale Scrum
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== Overview ==
 
== Overview ==
2 days
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This practical, hands-on, and idea-rich workshop helps you master the skills in applying agile and iterative methods, including Scrum – the most popular agile method worldwide. And it summarizes the key research and concepts. It is suitable for large or small projects, and is aimed at people who need to master the core management practices to succeed with agile methods. This is a high-impact guide to agile and iterative development methods: what they are, how they work, how to implement them – and why you should.
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[http://www.craiglarman.com/wiki/index.php?title=Books_by_Craig_Larman#Practices_for_Scaling_Lean_.26_Agile_Development:_Successful_Large.2C_Multisite_.26_Offshore_Product_Development_with_Large-Scale_Scrum See table of contents.]
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This course reflects our focus on consulting at coaching at relatively large products (e.g., 2000 people on one product) and relatively large enterprise transformations (e.g., 50,000 people) to adopting agile and lean principles, and scaling Scrum to this size. It also reflects our experience with large-scale multisite development in China, India, Brazil, Europe, and the USA, among other countries
 
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This workshop covers the key concepts of agile methods, and the roles, artifacts, and events of Scrum. You will learn estimation and planning. And how to coach a retrospective. The time involves many hands-on exercises and simulation games aimed at helping you master these skills.
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This workshop covers the key concepts and practices that we've learned work for Large-Scale Scrum and agile adoption.
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You will leave with the confidence knowing you can do, based on practice, many of the key practices in agile management. And you will be grounded in the core agile values and principles that guide these practices.  
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== Methods of Education ==
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Discussion, presentation, Q&A, workshop exercises
== Content ==
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* Evidence, history, and case studies
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* Frequently asked questions
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== Audience ==
* Agile and iterative values and practices
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Anyone interested in scaling -- managers, developers, technical leads, product management
* Key practices and values of Scrum (a very popular approach), and other agile methods
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* Scrum: Roles, Events, Artifacts
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* New management skills -- from estimation to scheduling
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== Level==
* Agile requirements and modeling
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Introductory-Intermediate
* Agile architecture and design
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* Myths and misconceptions
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* Continuous product development with iterative methods
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==Prerequisites==
* Fixed-price iterative and agile projects
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* Students must read, before the course: [http://www.scrumprimer.com/ The Scrum Primer]
* Lean Software Development
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* Documentation on agile projects
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* Testing and build practices in agile development
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== Outline ==
* Estimation, release planning and scheduling
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* Large-Scale Thinking Tools and Action Tools
* Tracking progress
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* Continuous product development
* Large project tips
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* Scaling with requirement areas
* Coordinating team-of-team large project development
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* Feature vs component teams
* Agile offshoring and contracts
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* Hierarchical continuous integration
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* Tracking
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* Large-scale estimation, release planning and scheduling
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* Enterprise-level policies and reward systems that support agility
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* Large-scale budgeting
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* Scaling the Product Backlog
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* Multi-level Sprint planning
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* Joint and multisite Sprint reviews
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* Joint and multisite Sprint retrospectives
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* Scaling the requirements workshops
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* Scaling the design workshops
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* Scaling lean design
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* Coordinating team-of-team large project development up to 2,000 people
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* Leading enterprise change initiatives to adopt agile and lean principles
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* Agile documentation in large products
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* Agile offshoring
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* Multisite and agile development
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* Dispersed teams
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* Contracts
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== Maximum Participants ==
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50
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== Environment - Room, Tools, Texts ==
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Read this: [[Course Environment - Workshop Style1]]
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'''Text and Notes'''
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* Students must read, before the course: [http://www.scrumprimer.com/ The Scrum Primer]
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* 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.

Latest revision as of 19:27, 26 January 2013

Full Title

Practices for Scaling Lean & Agile Development: Successful Large, Multisite & Offshore Product Development with Large-Scale Scrum


Overview

1-2 days

See table of contents.

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Practices for scaling lean and agile dev - cover.jpg

This course reflects our focus on consulting at coaching at relatively large products (e.g., 2000 people on one product) and relatively large enterprise transformations (e.g., 50,000 people) to adopting agile and lean principles, and scaling Scrum to this size. It also reflects our experience with large-scale multisite development in China, India, Brazil, Europe, and the USA, among other countries

This workshop covers the key concepts and practices that we've learned work for Large-Scale Scrum and agile adoption.


Methods of Education

Discussion, presentation, Q&A, workshop exercises


Audience

Anyone interested in scaling -- managers, developers, technical leads, product management


Level

Introductory-Intermediate


Prerequisites


Outline

  • Large-Scale Thinking Tools and Action Tools
  • Continuous product development
  • Scaling with requirement areas
  • Feature vs component teams
  • Hierarchical continuous integration
  • Tracking
  • Large-scale estimation, release planning and scheduling
  • Enterprise-level policies and reward systems that support agility
  • Large-scale budgeting
  • Scaling the Product Backlog
  • Multi-level Sprint planning
  • Joint and multisite Sprint reviews
  • Joint and multisite Sprint retrospectives
  • Scaling the requirements workshops
  • Scaling the design workshops
  • Scaling lean design
  • Coordinating team-of-team large project development up to 2,000 people
  • Leading enterprise change initiatives to adopt agile and lean principles
  • Agile documentation in large products
  • Agile offshoring
  • Multisite and agile development
  • Dispersed teams
  • Contracts


Maximum Participants

50


Environment - Room, Tools, Texts

Read this: Course Environment - Workshop Style1


Text and Notes

  • 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.