Agile coaching CT, Agile training CT, Scrum Training CT, Scrum Coaching CT

Chris Sims is a highly experienced Agile coach and trainer. He is in CT on July 14 and we have him for a special meeting. NOTE the date and location, which are different for this meeting.

Chris plans to come and discuss one or more of:

Experiencing Agility

Theory of Constraints

Writing Good Agile Requirements

You do not want to miss this meeting !!

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CERTIFIED SCRUM MASTER course

JULY 6 and 7

In CONNECTICUT with JEFF SUTHERLAND !!!

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If you are considering certified Scrum Master training, look no further! JEFF SUTHERLAND and Agile Connecticut are bringing Jeff's Certified Scrum Master course to Connecticut !!

Upon completion of this class you are authorized to take the online exam and obtain the Certified Scrum Master credential.

Course Dates: Tue/Wed July 6 & 7

Cost: $1300 ($1400 plus $100 off for Agile CT members) if you register by Monday June 14! ($1800 after that so register now !)

NOTE: Previously the cutoff for the $1300 price was listed as June 8. The actual cutoff for the $1300 price is MONDAY, June 14 so act now !!

$100 discount for mentioning Agile-CT !

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REGISTER TODAY ! This promises to be an OUTSTANDING Scrum Master class in CT, from the leading authority on Scrum--

JEFF SUTHERLAND.

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NEXT MEETING !! JULY 6 2010 6:30PM

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JEFF SUTHERLAND: An authoritative Q&A Session with JEFF SUTHERLAND on Scrum

JEFF SUTHERLAND formulated Scrum with Ken Schwaber in the 1990's, using his role as CIO at several companies to experiment with new ways of organizing software teams. The resulting formulation, called Scrum, has transformed the working lives of hundreds of thousands of IT professionals and others who are leveraging the Scrum framework....

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NOTE: We are asking for a free-will $3 bucks to cover the costs of food and beverages.

MEETING VENUE: MICROSOFT FARMINGTON CT. REGISTER HERE for this meeting

DIRECTIONS TO MICROSOFT FARMINGTON.

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Pictures from a recent meeting:

Agile-CT organizer, Dan Mezick.

OK: Who is Agile-CT organizer Dan Mezick ??

Why is does Dan's interview from Agile2009 appear on InfoQ?

What are all these InfoQ articles by Dan?

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Agile-CT is affiliated with the Agile Boston user group. Click here to go the the AGILE BOSTON home page.

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COMMUNITY NOTES: Things to Ponder, and Act upon....from Dan Mezick...

BART Analysis of Your Team Organization: Boundary Authority Role and Task.

Group Relations: an Intro to GR work.

Scrum, BART and Group Relations: a Primer

Community Meritocracy: How to Organize

Canonical Scrum: The simplest and most significant form of Scrum. There is no standard Scrum implementation !

Zombie Teams: Teams have a 'body'...violating this personal space of your team, without team consent, is a very BAD idea!

This Zombie Teams post is linked to from Jeff Sutherland's Scrum log!! Learn more...

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Click here to get full info & register for the NEXT Agile-CT MEETING....

We are Agile CT. We meet for Agile training events, one per month. We are dedicated to spreading Agile methods and thinking through the software development community in greater Hartford. We meet in Farmington CT (Microsoft offices) on the 1st Tuesday, except for August....click here to send us an email about absolutely anything on your mind now.

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The primary best practice in Agile software development is Scrum—a set of methods, roles and rules that can increase software developer productivity by 10 times if you are willing to follow the simple rules. We teach and discuss Scrum and the art and science behind it. We also cover Test Driven Development, XP and other best-practices under the Agile umbrella.

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Agile-CT is affiliated with the Agile Boston user group. Click here to go the the AGILE BOSTON home page.

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Experienced Agile practitioners from throughout the region attend and present at our meetings. We have educational presentations, a focus on Scrum training, and some informal networking time. We also have some very interesting group-level exercises in which we develop expertise and empirical experience in Agile and Scrum.

Anyone can attend a meeting provided you are willing to participate in making the meeting a success. We run exercises and games at the group level that are a lot of fun. Most of these revolve around Scrum tasks like planning, estimating and running Sprints. If you are looking for a very fun way to learn to more and more about Agile and Scrum, this is the place.

This web site contains everything you need to learn more and attend a meeting. Scrum and Agile are gaining a tremendous amount of traction recently. A recent search of DICE.COM indicated over 1000 jobs nationally with the word ‘Scrum’ and over 3000 jobs with the word ‘Agile’. Come to our events to learn how these methods are transforming software development worldwide.

Attending a meeting is simple: send us an email indicating your planned attendance, and show up. We meet at Microsoft office in Farmington CT....see you at the next meeting !

Click here to send an email question to Agile-CT.

Click here to get full info & register for the NEXT MEETING....

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Agile-CT is affiliated with the Agile Boston user group. Click here to go the the AGILE BOSTON home page.

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Agile CT Sponsors:

Microsoft is the world's greatest software company, with New England offices in Farmington CT and Waltham and Cambridge Massachusetts.

New Technology Solutions Inc is Dan Mezick's company. NewTech is a provider of Scrum and agile Training and Coaching to businesses of all sizes in the Northeast and beyond.

VersionOne pioneered the agile management tool market in 2002. The company is a leader in team and enterprise-level project management solutions.

Rally Software provides tools, services and training for Agile teams.

ThoughtWorks provides Mingle, a tool that enables powerful, easy, distributed project collaboration.

The Scrum Training Institute with Scrum's co-creator JEFF SUTHERLAND provides Certified Scrum training in Massachusetts, New England and worldwide.

Scrum.Org with Scrum's co-creator KEN SCHABER sustains Scrum, and provides a variety of Scrum assessment tests, certifications and related Scrum training....

Serious about Scrum? You MUST PASS Scrum's NOKIA TEST....

Any serious Scrum implementation must pass the NOKIA TEST before using advanced techniques such as Scrum-of-Scrums. Are you ready?

This test is the STARTING point for implementing advanced Scrum techniques such as multiple teams working from the same backlog.

According to the NOKIA TEST for Scrum, you are doing Scrum, if:

Iterations. You must be doing iterative development cycle of 6 weeks or less.
Testing.You must be testing as you develop software, and preferably, writing tests IN ADVANCE of development.
Agile Specification via User Stories. You'll want to be using user stories for requirements, keeping them small, independent, and testable.
Product Owner. You have one, preferably with a Release Plan, and one that writes the User Stories.
Product Backlog. You have one, PRIORITIZED by business ROI. Ideally, you an measure ROI based on real revenue, cost per Story Point, or othr metrics.
Estimates. You have estimates, developed by the WHOLE TEAM, ideally by using Planning Poker.
Burndown Chart. You have one! It is updated every day of a Sprint, and you report Stories, not Tasks, since Tasks are not a measure on "done-ness".
Team Disruption. You have only Scrum roles consisting of Product Owner, Team and Scrum master, and NO ONE is disturbing the Team as they work on the current Sprint.

SUMMARY

Scrum is simple to describe and hard to follow. It has the following structure:

Three Roles. The three Scrum roles are Product Owner, ScrumMaster, and Team. That's it!
Three Ceremonies. You have three main meetings in Scrum: the Sprint Planning meeting, the Sprint Review, and the Daily Scrum stand-up.
Three Artifacts. You have three essential documents in Scrum- The Product Backlog, the Sprint backlog, and the Burndown Chart. Remember that the main item is the User Story, estimated in Story Points......
Three Best Practices. Scrum as of 2008 now defines THREE best practices: the use of User Stories, the use of Planning Poker, and the use of the Scrum board.

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