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Applied Agile Training

Brief

Why This Course and Description

This training creates an immersion experience that mixes theory, simulation and real application.

Classic IT organizations faced with growing project complexity often look to Six Sigma or similar for process improvement.  Tools such as DMAIC and SIPOC are powerful when applied to repeatable processes, but software development creates a different product with each project.  Organizations that focus on process will bring slight gains in quality, but dramatically slow product development.  Infrastructure takes longer to plan and deploy at the expense of being obsolete when finally deployed.  

This 3-day highly interactive event will demonstrate Agile methods proven to gain both productivity (4X) and quality (10X).  Theory is taught in the classroom and powerfully reinforced by visits to an actual Agile software development team (in-flight on a real project) and experiences shared by instructors who have done it.  Participants will be able to see 1^st hand working product backlog, observe daily stand-up synchronization meetings, and view a high-performing, collaborative Agile team in action.  The class will work through an unfolding requirements simulation, guided by vision, and grouped into small iterations so that the final outcome emerges from pieces completed just in time.  There will be two highly qualified instructors present to handle the intense interactive discussions that are necessary to learn from these experiences.

Instructors

Douglas E. Shimp is a Partner and Senior Consultant 3Back.com, a CST (Certified ScrumMaster Trainer) and a use case expert.  He has 16 years experience in the technology field. One of his distinctions is his focus on the interaction of technology and corporate cultural issues. He is currently writing a book The ProductOwner. He is certified by Cockburn and Associates to teach "Writing Effective Use Cases" and by the Scrum Alliance to teach "Advanced Development Methods" as a ScrumMaster Trainer.  www.3back.com

Guy Beaver is Director of Software Engineering at Critical Point Group.  Prior to joining Critical Point Group, Beaver served as systems manager for an industry-leading mutual fund organization, where he presided over the delivery of the firm's Web applications for account opening and funds transfers. In this role, he successfully implemented Agile in a mature Six Sigma IT organization. Before that, he served as a software engineer for an application development company that was under contract to the NASA Langley Research Center. He was also a research physicist for the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory. His recent experiences include rapid delivery of enterprise web applications and leading the change to Agile in both large corporations and start-ups. He has over 23 years of software engineering and IT experience in several industries including DoD, NASA and Financial Services. He has published articles in several technical journals.

Why This Course

Together, Guy & Doug have implemented Agile methods in all size organizations, ranging from a $1.3 Trillion Financial Services corporation to start-ups and everything in-between. You will not find another training course quite like this one. We have neither seen nor heard of a better way to teach this material. Please be prepared for an intense, yet satisfying experience.

Prerequisite

Participants should have a background in team based product development and/or project management.

Course Length

3 days

Dates

December 12-14

Location

Classroom Training:

Best Western Independence Hotel 

2501 Sardis Road N
Charlotte, NC 28227
(704) 845-2810

Special Thanks

to Critical Point Group (www.criticalpointgroup.com) for co-hosting this event and allowing participants to observe a highly productive, Agile software development team in action.  The offices of Critical Point are conveniently located close to the training site, and will afford participants to see many of the intangible benefits of Agile that are difficult to convey from training alone.  Critical Point Group is a provider of digital marketing services for banks, credit unions and other financial institutions. 

Cost

$2100 per person ($1750 early-bird)

Hosted by 3back LLC