I am taking a week off from blogging, while I do a fall clean up and travel for one of the Indian festivals thats very close to my heart.
My friend from New York is coming over for a 3 week visit to India and we have lots of catching up to do.
I'll be back in October.
Scrum
Details on Scrum and everything you need to know.
Requirements include:
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Familiarize with scrum basics
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Attend CSM course
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Asses your progress through online evaluation.
Requirements
include:
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Download the application and illustrate hands on experience
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Send the complete application for review and
approval to the Review committee.
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On approval you pay $250 for certification fee
Requirements include:
- Have a solid understanding of the Scrum framework, a deep understanding of the principles and values that are the foundations of Scrum, and a clarity on what belongs to Scrum and what is an extension or complement;
- Have extensive experience of implementing and/or coaching Scrum inside organizations;
- Be active in the wider Scrum community, through actual and virtual interaction with other Scrum and Agile thinkers and practitioners;
- Have training experience beyond just Scrum, be willing to explore new ways of working and be committed to continuous improvement.
experts in Scrum, both in theory and in practice. They
have an in-depth understanding of the practices and principles of Scrum and
have real experience on actual Scrum projects.
- Does your ScrumMaster need a mentor?
- Does your Product Owner need help learning how to work with a product backlog?
- Are you having trouble breaking sprint backlog items into task lists?
- Are your sprints consistently ending with unfinished work?
- Is estimating so hard that your sprint planning lasts beyond its timebox?
- Does your management underestimate the scope of organizational change necessary for Scrum to be successful?
- Are you facing challenges with multi-team Scrum projects?
- Is your organization having difficulty implementing the Scrum framework in conjunction with other methodologies?
- Is the team encountering obstacles with organizational impediments?
- Does your organization need coaching and guidance on scaling Scrum?
And there are more, you can also be a
Certified Product Owner or developer.
More on Kanban.
Trainings in Town
PMI Agile Practitioner Certification Prep Class
Derek Heuther is offering training classes now globally. Registration is open for Balitmore/Washington DC (Oct 17-19) and Phoenix from November 2-4. To register, click here
Cost $1495 per attendee and it covers the 1500 trainings hours required to appear for the certification.
Ruby On Rails- Training
A two day workshop on "BDD with Ruby on Rails" organized by Ostrya Labs on Sept 24/25th at Hyderabad (India).
The details of the workshop are available here. Contact Arun at at arun@ostryalabs.com for more information.
Scrum Certification- Lessons Learnt
“Having coached many software development teams, I tend to value my contribution by what a team does when I’m not with them over what the team does when I’m with them.”
- Dhaval Panchal, Agile Coach and Trainer (source)
Trainings are supposed to be boring.
Unless something wakes you up. Or you are in a class that is surprisingly interesting.
Last week, I happened to be in one.
It was training and interesting-a scrum certification class (CSM) conducted by Solutions IQ.If you are already certified in scrum or have taken courses you know the drill. If you haven’t, you can look over here .
You don’t have to choose either/or between a PMP and a CSM/CSP- you can be both. Scrum training actually offers you PDU’s as well for attending these classes. Cool!
I have heard so much about Agile and Scrum that I genuinely got interested and decided to go for it. You can check for nearby classes based on your location by looking into the website.
That’s how I found mine and it’s been a treat and I’m sold to Scrum. So much so, that I started my own board at work to monitor my work and see if it helps. Oh, I also have one at home for my personal goals stuck behind my study door.
Seattle based Dhaval Panchal has been an awesome trainer for the 2 days of training in Hyderabad, India – informative, knowledgeable, patient, helpful and always approachable. Given a chance I’d train with him again.
My favourite part of the class was the Paper Ball game- it teaches you more about the team dynamics than you would think. A group of random people who met 15 mints ago and has to abide by the rules of the game, severe time constraints and expectation of an end result can take the so called managers in for a spin. Who takes the control, who listens to whom, whose idea should be implemented, why am I being Ignored......the behavorial drama continues.
A class worth attending for sure. Thank you Dhaval.
(Disclosure: I paid for my certification; it wasn't sponsored by any organization).
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Tricks of the Trade
Here's some cool stuff:•If you like to organize your personal goals, professional certifications, hobbies and measure them over time Jenny Blake’s templates are awesome. And you can get them by signing up in her monthly newsletter.
•Do women make better project managers- want to know read this guest post
•Like to learn but not the boring way- say Hello to PMChat
•Industrial Psychology Perspective on Project management is here. Finally.
•Joined your first PM job and need to revamp your image. Your makeup tricks here.
•Need some white noise while you work, try this. No downloads required.
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