Agile Planning Advanced Session - San Jose

Description:
There is a world of difference between studying agile planning and actually doing it. This session is intense, energetic, and highly interactive, focusing primarily on direct experience with minimal traditional presentation. Attendees will collaborate using a Scrum / XP style "planning board" to deliver a fully-developed, usable agile sprint / iteration plan in the context of a realistic software product development domain.

Prior to the session, attendees will receive a detailed background packet on the problem domain used for the session -- just as if they were starting work on an initiative at their own workplace. While the domain will be familiar to all attendees, it does not consist of "toy problems," and participants should be prepared to use the skills they depend on in their professions.

The work product produced by the end of the session will be an actual agile project plan, robust enough to start a sprint / iteration, yet flexible enough to avoid the problems associated with Big Design Up Front. The experience which participants will take away from creating this plan will foster deep skills which they can apply to their unique work situations.

Course Goals:
During the session, participants will be coached in the use of key agile planning concepts to gain practical experience in:

1. Performing agile analysis in a strategic context
2. Adding project value early and eliminating waste by deferring complexity
3. Facilitating a team's ability to work incrementally and in a self-organizing manner
4. Keeping the focus on deliverable product
5. Writing work backlog items with clear value and useful time estimates
6. Techniques to detect and avoid "analysis paralysis"
7. Pre-planning and re-planning

As a take-away, attendees may access their group plans after the session, both "as delivered" and in an electronic format applicable to virtual / non-collocated team work. This tangible product of the session will continue to serve as a personalized example of good agile planning as participants apply this experience back to their jobs.

Who Should Attend:
Advanced sessions are intended to help agile practitioners focus on the difficult challenges of agile implementations: 

• Project Managers/ScrumMasters who want to integrate Agile plans with their organization's traditional project management needs
• Product Managers/Product Owners seeking better visibility into the strategic view of their product being developed
• Scrum course students desiring a "deep dive" into planning
• ScrumMasters who wish to improve their team's sprint planning effectiveness
• Agile development team members who want to work better as a team
  

Instructors:

Doug Shimp and Michele Sliger

Prerequisites:

• Participants should have attended beginner Agile training and gained some practical Agile experience.
• Participants should be prepared to review the problem domain background material prior to attending the session.
  

Course Length:
3 hours

Size:
Class will be strictly limited maximum of 21 participants.

Thursday, January 24, 2008 from 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM (CT)

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