Professional Scrum Developer - 3 Day Training Course

• Massively increase your output of work
• Use TFS 2010 effectively with Scrum
• Become "Scrum certified"
• The 'only' Microsoft approved course

This Professional Scrum Developer (PSD) course is a unique and intensive three day experience for software developers. The course guides teams on how to turn product requirements into potentially shippable increments of software using the Scrum framework, Visual Studio 2010, and modern software engineering practices. Attendees will work in self-organizing, self-managing teams using a common instance of Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2010 to achieve this goal.

Course Objectives

Course attendees will learn to:

• Form effective teams
• Explore and understand legacy “Brownfield” architecture
• Define quality attributes, acceptance criteria, and “done”
• Create automated builds
• How to handle software hotfixes
• Verify existence and elimination of bugs
• Plan releases and sprints
• Estimate product backlog items
• Create and manage a sprint backlog
• Hold an effective sprint review
• Improve your process by using Sprit Retrospectives
• Use emergent architecture to avoid technical debt
• Use Test Driven Development as a design tool
• Setup and leverage continuous integration
• Use Test Impact Analysis to decrease testing times
• Use refactoring practices effectively
• Create and manage test plans and cases
• Create, run, record, and play back manual tests
• Setup a branching strategy and branch code
• Write more maintainable code
• Identify and eliminate people and process dysfunctions
• Inspect and improve your team’s software development process<

Figure: Understand the differences by looking at the comparison table between the 3 and 5 days courses

Audience

This course is suitable for any member of a software development team:

• architect
• programmer
• database developer
• tester
• Product Owners, Scrum Masters, and other stakeholders are welcome too. Keep in mind that everyone who attends will be expected to commit to work and pull their weight on the team.

What will be expected of you?

This is a unique course in that it's technically-focused, team-based, and employs timeboxes. It demands that the members of the teams self-organize and self-manage their own work to collaboratively develop increments of software.
All attendees must commit to:

• Pay attention to all lectures and demonstrations
• Participate in team and group discussions
• Work collaboratively with other team members
• Obey the timebox for each activity
• Commit to work and do your best to deliver

All teams should have these skills:

• A good working understanding of Scrum (from experience or a Professional Scrum Foundations course)
• Familiarity with Visual Studio 2010
• C#, .NET 4.0 & ASP.NET 4.0 experience*
• Software testing experience

* Check with the instructor ahead of time for the exact technologies

Course Schedule

Related Links

• SSW's Rules to Better Scrum with TFS
• Accentient Scrum Developer Training
• Microsoft - Professional Scrum Developer Program
• Scrum.org
• Book a SSW Scrum Master for your project