Scrum Patterns Training

For those who want to guide Scrum adoptions to create awesome organizations that deliver high-value products, Scrum Pattern Course is a 2-day course for putting the Scrum framework into practice for successful products, happy customers and highly-effective organizations.

The Scrum Patterns are developed in the field and curated over 10 years by distinguished authors like Jeff Sutherland, James Coplien, Cesario Ramos and many more, they are an indispensable treasure for any skilled Scrum practitioner.

Learn how to build your Scrum Team; your Product Organization and your Value Stream. This course provides Scrum Patterns for you to use in your daily work to grow your Scrum.

Learning objectives

A Scrum Course is an in-depth course on Scrum adoption, based on the book ‘A Scrum Book – The Spirit of the Game’. It provides essential information to understand how to use the patterns in the book. This highly interactive course ensures you are ready to improve your Scrum adoption or to start a new Scrum implementation. The training covers the fundamental Scrum Patterns principles and thinking tools, stories on Scrum adoptions, exercises, and extensive Q&A to ensure we discuss the topics most of interest to the participants.

By Cesario Ramos & James Coplien

Cesario Ramos is a co-author of ‘A Scrum Book’ and a Certified LeSS Trainer and Professional Scrum Trainer at Scrum.org. Cesario works as a management consultant on small and large scale Agile Transformations. In the past, he was an agile consultant at Xebia, CTO at codecentric NL, a product manager at Atos, a hard-core developer and the lead software architect at PANalytical. Over the years Cesario wrote numerous papers on agile development and is the author of the book ‘EMERGENT – Lean & Agile adoption for an innovative workplace’. He is happy to be an active member of the ScrumPloP® community and is a frequent speaker at conferences around the world.

Jim Coplien is the founder of the Pasteur Organizational Patterns project, which was the foundation for the Borland QuatroPro for Windows study that inspired Jeff Sutherland to include daily stand-up meetings in Scrum. This work was also one of the main foundations underlying the organizational principles of Extreme Programming. In a former life Cope is best known for his design and programming books such as Advanced C++, Multi-Paradigm Design, and the pioneering two books of the PLoPD series of edited works. He is also one of the founders of the pattern discipline, and he is the Product Owner for the Scrum patterns effort at ScrumPLoP. His book Organizational Patterns of Agile Software Development

About the book

The book is written over the last 9 years by a mix of practitioners and academia, ranging from the creator of Scrum and Agile Manifesto authors to professors, practitioners, and certified trainers. The authors are from Australia, Japan, USA, Denmark, United Kingdom, The Netherlands, Finland, and Portugal and include the likes of Jeff Sutherland; James O. Coplien; Lachlan Heasman; Mark den Hollander; Cesário Ramos; Esther Vervloed; Neil Harrison; Kiro Harada; Joseph Yoder; June Kim; Alan O’Callaghan; Mike Beedle; Gertrud Bjørnvig; Dina Friis; Ville Reijonen; Gabrielle Benefield; Jens Østergaard; Veli-Pekka Eloranta; Evan Leonard and Ademar Aguiar. All participants of the course get a copy of the book.

Who should attend a Scrum course

A Scrum Course is for anyone who is involved in small or large scale Scrum adoption. Above-average Scrum knowledge is expected and required. This can be achieved by having experience in Scrum transformations, attending a Certified ScrumMaster course, Professional ScrumMaster course and by thoroughly reading Scrum introduction material such as the Scrum Primer and practising Scrum.

Agenda

In this two day training the following topics are discussed:

• Scrum Patterns Principles & Fundamentals

  Fundamental Pattern Theory Patterns and Systems Thinking How to use Scrum Pattern Languages & Sequences. How to use Scrum Patterns? Using Scrum Patterns to develop a Scrum Team.

• Building your Product Organisation

  More Systems Thinking What is a Scrum Product Organization? Using Scrum Patterns to improve your Organization Building a Scrum Master

• Building Your Value Stream

  A Scrum Value Stream Improving your Value Stream Building a Product Owner Expert Q&A