Course Outline

This 1-day course teaches the principles and practices that make Scrum effective at managing project.

The course itself uses the principles of Scrum, where the learning outcome is driven by the needs of the participants through a combination of expert instruction and self-directed learning. Opportunities to reflect and adapt the direction of the course are offered at regular intervals.

At the end of the training the participants will have the confidence and understanding to begin to socialize Scrum at their own organization and support teams in improving their processes.

The following elements will be covered during the one day course

* Scrum in Practice: the course is designed to illustrate Scrum in action.
* Understanding of the Agile Manifesto and what it means to them.
* Essence of Scrum: values, foundations and a new way of thinking.
* Understanding how Scrum values and foundations are related to the practices.
* Get a sense of what self-organization is (and is not).
* Can draw a digagram of mechanics of Scrum: framework, roles, artifacts & flow.

About your trainer :

Tobias Mayer is an Agile Coach and Trainer from London, UK, currently residing and working in the USA, with frequent trips to Europe. He has a background in software development, graphic design, theatre arts, and team/groupwork facilitation. He also has a keen mind, an anarchic edge and a passion for corporate enlightenment.

Tobias currently work as a change agent, trainer and facilitator, providing coaching and consulting services to teams and organizations making the transition to more agile, trustful and team-centered ways of working. His current core focus is on the Scrum framework, offering both public and private training classes to explore the principles and practices of Scrum. He has developed a fast-moving and energizing style of “immersion training” for teams that provides an extremely high yield of knowledge for participants: knowledge that is not just learned, but embodied.