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"So much of Scrum is a way of thinking about the project, the customers, and the team that an interactive class like the 2-day ScrumMaster course - where I learned by example - is the best way to learn it."
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Certified Scrum Product Owner Course You are in charge of building a system, creating a new product release, or any other complex business project. Traditionally, you would hand this undertaking over to a trained project manager to run for you. You would then wait and hope for the best, since over 50% of all projects fail and those that succeed deliver products in which 65% of the functionality is rarely or never used.Scrum provides a way for you to directly and effectively manage the project yourself. Intuitive and lightweight, the Scrum process delivers completed increments of the product at rapid, regular intervals ... usually monthly. Your primary tool for managing the project is called a Product Backlog, a list of features you want in the system or release, prioritized by value, cost, and risk. You use the Product Backlog to cause the most valuable functionality to be built first, and remove risk early in the project. As you watch the product take shape, increment by increment, you can restructure the Product Backlog to incorporate your insights or respond to changes in business conditions. You can also identify and cancel unsuccessful projects early, often within the first several months.The Certified Scrum Product Owner's course teaches you how to manage projects using Scrum. The one day class has a full agenda:
Sign up for this course at the Scrum store at www.controlchaos.com.
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Contact Ken Schwaber at ken.schwaber@verizon.net for consulting resources, training, mentoring, and information.
A new book for those managing large projects and programs, or wishing to adopt Scrum throughout the enterprise. Due out June 13, 2007 from Microsoft Press.
The rules and practices from Scrum - a simple process for managing complex projects - are few, straightforward, and easy to learn. In this illuminating series of case studies, Scrum co-creator and evangelist Ken Schwaber identifies the real-world lessons culled from his years of experience coaching companies in agile project management. [Read more] |
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