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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" media="screen" href="/~d/styles/atom10full.xsl"?><?xml-stylesheet type="text/css" media="screen" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~d/styles/itemcontent.css"?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:openSearch="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/" xmlns:georss="http://www.georss.org/georss" xmlns:feedburner="http://rssnamespace.org/feedburner/ext/1.0"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1494848218430573187</id><updated>2009-11-10T20:38:57.342+01:00</updated><title type="text">Scrum Breakfast Training</title><subtitle type="html">Scrum Courses in English, German or French</subtitle><link rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://training.scrum-breakfast.com/feeds/posts/default" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://training.scrum-breakfast.com/" /><link rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/" /><author><name>Peter</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04855156445588778076</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author><generator version="7.00" uri="http://www.blogger.com">Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>13</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><link rel="self" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/ScrumBreakfastTraining" type="application/atom+xml" /><atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com" /><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1494848218430573187.post-5529595941063793656</id><published>2009-10-10T09:48:00.007+02:00</published><updated>2009-10-31T16:12:08.405+01:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Courses - scheduled" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="jump start" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="geneva" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="french" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Courses - catalogue" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="scrum" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="français" /><title type="text">Scrum Training in French</title><content type="html">The success of the &lt;a href="http://www.agiletour.org/"&gt;Agile Tour&lt;/a&gt; proves it, Scrum and Agile Project Management are becoming a hot topic in France and French speaking Europe. My popular &lt;a href="http://training.scrum-breakfast.com/2008/09/agile-project-management-with-scrum.html"&gt;Scrum Jumpstart&lt;/a&gt; course is now available in French. I will offer the course for the first time in French in Geneva.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Does you want to get started with Scrum? Does your team need hands on experience before starting a "real" project? Do need to convince a skeptic that Scrum is the way to go?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.sierra-charlie.com/image/PeterStevens.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.sierra-charlie.com/image/PeterStevens.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;This the course for you: an introduction to Scrum for developers, project leaders, business analysts and program managers who want get started with Scrum. After completing this course, your head will understand Scrum, your stomach will have digested why Scrum works, and your hands will be able to do Scrum.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The rest of the details are the same as always: &lt;a href="http://training.scrum-breakfast.com/2008/09/agile-project-management-with-scrum.html"&gt;see the Scrum Jumpstart course description&lt;/a&gt; for details.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Date: January 14 &amp;amp; 15, 2010&lt;br /&gt;Time: 9.00 to 17.00, maybe 17.30 on Thursday&lt;br /&gt;Location: Digicomp Academy, &lt;a href="http://maps.google.ch/maps?f=q&amp;amp;source=s_q&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;geocode=&amp;amp;q=digicomp+academy+geneva&amp;amp;sll=47.397953,8.502222&amp;amp;sspn=0.010879,0.025191&amp;amp;ie=UTF8&amp;amp;hq=digicomp+academy&amp;amp;hnear=Geneva&amp;amp;ll=46.211649,6.145349&amp;amp;spn=0.00278,0.006298&amp;amp;z=18&amp;amp;iwloc=A"&gt;&lt;span dir="ltr" id="adr"&gt;rue de Monthoux 64, 1201 Genève&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;‎&lt;br /&gt;Prices and registration: &lt;a href="http://www.sierra-charlie.com/course"&gt;http://www.sierra-charlie.com/course&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This course is held in French. Course materials are in English.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;form action="http://www.sierra-charlie.com/course" autocomplete="on" method="post"&gt;&lt;input autocomplete="on" type="submit" value="Register" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/form&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1494848218430573187-5529595941063793656?l=training.scrum-breakfast.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ScrumBreakfastTraining/~4/RG1cQmTsTgg" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://training.scrum-breakfast.com/feeds/5529595941063793656/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1494848218430573187&amp;postID=5529595941063793656" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1494848218430573187/posts/default/5529595941063793656" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1494848218430573187/posts/default/5529595941063793656" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ScrumBreakfastTraining/~3/RG1cQmTsTgg/scrum-training-in-french.html" title="Scrum Training in French" /><author><name>Peter</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04855156445588778076</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005" name="OpenSocialUserId" value="07753241731377477509" /></author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://training.scrum-breakfast.com/2009/10/scrum-training-in-french.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1494848218430573187.post-874625946239217148</id><published>2009-04-03T11:32:00.009+02:00</published><updated>2009-10-31T16:13:40.781+01:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="cspo" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Courses - scheduled" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="switzerland" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="product owner" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="zurich" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Courses - catalogue" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="scrum" /><title type="text">CSPO - Certified Scrum Product Owner</title><content type="html">&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Planning and Managing Agile Projects&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Oqkv5zzx0UA/SOzjnpQOdBI/AAAAAAAAAG8/oMvpXGejYdk/s1600-h/User+Stories+after+First+Brainstorming.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Oqkv5zzx0UA/SOzjnpQOdBI/AAAAAAAAAG8/f7pslEnqMP0/s200-R/User+Stories+after+First+Brainstorming.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Have youlooked at Scrum and XP or maybe done an agile project or two, and thought'looks great, but...!'? How do I plan a project if every month we cancompletely change the deliverables? When will it be finished? How do I manage the project? How do I negotiate with the Team? How do I calculate a price or aschedule? How do I deal with a fixed deadline, scrope or price? How do I master this job of "Product Owner."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;form action="http://www.sierra-charlie.com/course" autocomplete="on" method="post"&gt;&lt;input autocomplete="on" type="submit" value="Register" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/form&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you are a Product Owner, Scrum Master, Program Manager, Customer or SalesConsultant who needs to reliably estimate, schedule, price and manage asoftware development project using agile methods, this course is foryou: A two day immersion into creating great products, agile planningand estimating, managing the agile team and leading the project to success.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Topics&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Overview of Scrum&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Product Owner: Duties, Rights and Privileges&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Creating Products that Excite Your Customers&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Guiding self organizing teams&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Building Quality In - From Specification to Acceptance  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Managing Line Management and other Stakeholders&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Requirements: Personae, User Stories, Story Points and Business Value &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Creating &amp;amp; Prioritizing the Product Backlog&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Sizing the Project, generating time estimates and milestones&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Monitoring Progress&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Communication und Reporting&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Scaling to large projects&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Contracting and the Dreaded Fix Priced Bid&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;The Agile Quote&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;The Agile Request for Proposal&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Scrum in the Enterprise: Process Improvement and Portfolios &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Murphy: What can go wrong&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;After completing this course, you will be able (with the help ofyour Scrum Team) to create, budget, plan and schedule and quote anagile project and lead it to a successful conclusion.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Audience and Prerequisites&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This course is idea for ProductOwners, Scrum Masters, Customers, Project Leaders, Product Owners, IT Managers andSales Consultants who want to plan, budget and bid on agile projects.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You should have previous experience with Scrum. The following books are recommended as preparation:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;User Stories Applied; Mike Cohn&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Agile Estimating and Planning; Mike Cohn&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Scrum. Produkte zuverlässig und schnell entwickeln; Boris Gloger; Hanser 2008&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;You can also prepare yourself by taking the &lt;a href="http://training.scrum-breakfast.com/2008/09/agile-project-management-with-scrum.html"&gt;Scrum Jumpstart&lt;/a&gt; course. If in you have any questions, please &lt;a href="http://www.sierra-charlie.com/contact.php?c=8"&gt;contact us&lt;/a&gt; for more information.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Your Trainers&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Peter Beck is an accomplished Scrum Coach, Trainer (Certified ScrumTrainer®, CST) and Moderator with deep experience in software development. He has coached a wide range of development teams, project and product manager as well as corporate leaders in the use and roll out of Scrum in companies of all sizes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Peter Stevens, Certified Scrum Practitioner, born1959, started his career in 1982 as a Software Engineer at Microsoft.He first got interested in Scrum in 2005 while working as ProfessionalServices Manager, EMEA für MySQL. Since 2006 he has been using Scrumfor projects in the German and French parts of Switzerland, to rescueand guide projects to a successful conclusion.He writes regularly about Scrum, project planning and management for &lt;a href="http://agilesoftwaredevelopment.com/blog/peterstev/"&gt;agilesoftwaredevelopment.com&lt;/a&gt;. He is also one of the co-founders of the Lean-Agile-Scrum specialist group of the SwissICT.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Registration&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Language: German&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Location Zurich, Switzerland — Digicomp Academy, &lt;a href="http://map.search.ch/8005-zuerich/limmatstr.50?z=1024"&gt;Limmatstr 50, 8005 Zürich &lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://map.search.ch/zuerich/baslerstr.60?poi=verkehr,gastro,anzeigen"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Time: Coffee and Registration 8:30, Course Times from 9:00 to 17.00 (maybe 17:30 on the first day)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Lodging: please contact us if you need help selecting a &lt;a href="http://map.search.ch/8005-zuerich/limmatstr.50?z=512&amp;amp;poi=hotel"&gt;nearby hotel&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Prices and Dates: &lt;a href="http://sierra-charlie.com/course/"&gt;Registration&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;You can also book &lt;i&gt;Practical Product Owner &lt;/i&gt;as an In-House course in English, German or French. Please &lt;a href="http://www.sierra-charlie.com/contact.php?c=8"&gt;contact us&lt;/a&gt; for more information.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;form action="http://www.sierra-charlie.com/course" autocomplete="on" method="post"&gt;&lt;input autocomplete="on" type="submit" value="Register" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/form&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1494848218430573187-874625946239217148?l=training.scrum-breakfast.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ScrumBreakfastTraining/~4/F0olMJtXdQc" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://training.scrum-breakfast.com/feeds/874625946239217148/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1494848218430573187&amp;postID=874625946239217148" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1494848218430573187/posts/default/874625946239217148" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1494848218430573187/posts/default/874625946239217148" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ScrumBreakfastTraining/~3/F0olMJtXdQc/cspo-certified-scrum-product-owner.html" title="CSPO - Certified Scrum Product Owner" /><author><name>Peter</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04855156445588778076</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005" name="OpenSocialUserId" value="07753241731377477509" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Oqkv5zzx0UA/SOzjnpQOdBI/AAAAAAAAAG8/f7pslEnqMP0/s72-Rc/User+Stories+after+First+Brainstorming.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://training.scrum-breakfast.com/2009/04/cspo-certified-scrum-product-owner.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1494848218430573187.post-6025421388358069370</id><published>2009-03-10T06:40:00.013+01:00</published><updated>2009-10-17T06:55:45.750+02:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="csm" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Courses - catalogue" /><title type="text">Certified ScrumMaster with Ken Schwaber</title><content type="html">&lt;b&gt;Flash&lt;/b&gt;: Ken is Keynote speaker at the &lt;a href="http://www.swissict.ch/vomhypezurpraxis" target="_blank"&gt;Lean-Agile-Scrum Conference&lt;/a&gt; in Zürich and will lead a 'Scrum-But' Workshop on getting the most out of Scrum. Conference Participants receive a 10% &lt;a href="http://www.sierra-charlie.com/course/"&gt;discount on the course fee&lt;/a&gt; until May 21. Places are still available: &lt;a href="http://www.sierra-charlie.com/course/"&gt;Register Now!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Oqkv5zzx0UA/SbX86XZyoVI/AAAAAAAAAI4/MMoCO3sHdXs/s1600-h/Ken_Schwaber.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img size="40%" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Oqkv5zzx0UA/SbX86XZyoVI/AAAAAAAAAI4/MMoCO3sHdXs/s200/Ken_Schwaber.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;b&gt;Scrum&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Scrum is a framework for effectively managing complex projects, programs, and enterprises. Using iterative, incremental techniques, Scrum harnesses self-managing, cross-functional teams to improve productivity and quality, and provide actionable information and techniques for managing risk and return on investment every iteration. This course teaches people in leadership and management roles how to use Scrum to achieve these benefits.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Why?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Agile management is as radically different from traditional management as agile processes are different from traditional methodologies. Rather than plan, instruct and direct, the agile project manager facilitates, coaches and leads. This person is called a ScrumMaster in the Scrum agile process to denote the difference and remind the person filling this role of the new responsibilities. Accepted participants learn how to be a ScrumMaster and how to make a development team, a project, or an organization agile.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The ScrumMaster is the person responsible for the proper execution of Scrum and all change within the engineering and overall organization. Exercises, case studies, and examples used to bring home the realization of how to be a ScrumMaster. All participants are expected to understand Scrum basics prior to attending this course through reading material on the web or perusing the book, “Agile Project Management with Scrum” by Ken Schwaber. This course is "how to" not "what."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Goal&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Each individual is trained to be able to assume the following responsibilities:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Remove the barriers between development and the customer so the customer directly drives development; &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Teach the customer how to maximize ROI and meet their objectives through Scrum; &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Improve the lives of the development team by facilitating creativity and empowerment; &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Improve the productivity of the development team in any way possible; and, &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Improve the engineering practices and tools so each increment of functionality is potentially shippable&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;b&gt;Topics:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fundamentals of agile and Scrum, running Scrum projects, planning and scaling Scrum projects, offshore development using Scrum, bidding on fixed price/date contracts, and ensuing the adequacy of engineering practices. The agenda for the class is:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Introduction&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;What is Scrum and Why does it work?&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Nuances on Using Scrum&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Done&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Planning Releases and Sprints&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;The Sprint&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;More Nuances&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;The ScrumMaster – Fact and Myth&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Teams – Source of Joy and Frustration&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Scaling Scrum to Large Projects and Enterprises&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;b&gt;Course Material&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Approximately one week prior to the course, all materials, methodology and training materials will be made available to confirmed attendees. An individual license to use these materials will be issued to those attendees who successfully complete the certification program.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Pedigree&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Certification program was started in April, 2003. There are already over 22,000 Certified ScrumMasters. As a result of their successful completion of the program, each participant received an individual license and copy of the Scrum methodology, Scrum training materials, and Scrum software. In addition, Certified ScrumMasters are authorized to participate in "open" development of the Scrum methodology and software, ensuring a growing body of knowledge from a qualified, competent group of certified professionals.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Your Trainer&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ken Schwaber is one of the co-developers of the Scrum process and an Agile and Scrum evangelist. He is a signatory to the &lt;a href="http://agilemanifesto.org/"&gt;Agile Manifesto&lt;/a&gt; and founded the &lt;a href="http://agilealliance.org/"&gt;Agile Alliance&lt;/a&gt; and the &lt;a href="http://scrumalliance.org/"&gt;Scrum Alliance&lt;/a&gt;. He has been a software and product developer for most of his long life. Microsoft Press recently released his newest book, "&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/Enterprise-Scrum-Ken-Schwaber/dp/0735623376/ref=sr_1_1/103-3132577-6763844?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;s=books&amp;amp;qid=1181783124&amp;amp;sr=8-1"&gt;The Enterprise and Scrum&lt;/a&gt;".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Using anecdotes and experiences, Ken teaches the class the Scrum methodology and how to use it to be effective as an agile manager - the ScrumMaster.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Registration&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Language: English&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Location Zurich, Switzerland — Digicomp Academy, &lt;a href="http://map.search.ch/8005-zuerich/limmatstr.50?z=1024"&gt;Limmatstr 50, 8005 Zürich &lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://map.search.ch/zuerich/baslerstr.60?poi=verkehr,gastro,anzeigen"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Time: Coffee and Registration 8:00, Course Times from 8:30 to 16.30 (with 17:00 for overflow)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Lodging: please contact us if you need help selecting a &lt;a href="http://map.search.ch/8005-zuerich/limmatstr.50?z=512&amp;amp;poi=hotel"&gt;nearby hotel&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Prices and Dates: June 2 &amp;amp; 3, 2009. See &lt;a href="http://sierra-charlie.com/course/"&gt;Registration&lt;/a&gt; for details.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;10% Discount for participants of the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.swissict.ch/vomhypezurpraxis" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_blank"&gt;Zürich Lean Agile Scrum Conference&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1494848218430573187-6025421388358069370?l=training.scrum-breakfast.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ScrumBreakfastTraining/~4/uvuSX2YEKnI" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://training.scrum-breakfast.com/feeds/6025421388358069370/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1494848218430573187&amp;postID=6025421388358069370" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1494848218430573187/posts/default/6025421388358069370" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1494848218430573187/posts/default/6025421388358069370" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ScrumBreakfastTraining/~3/uvuSX2YEKnI/certified-scrummaster-with-ken-schwaber.html" title="Certified ScrumMaster with Ken Schwaber" /><author><name>Peter</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04855156445588778076</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005" name="OpenSocialUserId" value="07753241731377477509" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Oqkv5zzx0UA/SbX86XZyoVI/AAAAAAAAAI4/MMoCO3sHdXs/s72-c/Ken_Schwaber.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://training.scrum-breakfast.com/2009/03/certified-scrummaster-with-ken-schwaber.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1494848218430573187.post-7930851694037166833</id><published>2008-10-08T18:10:00.021+02:00</published><updated>2009-10-31T16:14:49.862+01:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Courses - scheduled" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="switzerland" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="europe" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="csm" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="zurich" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="schweiz" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Courses - catalogue" /><title type="text">Certified ScrumMaster Training with Andreas Schliep and Peter Stevens</title><content type="html">&lt;h3&gt;For Advanced Scrum Users&lt;/h3&gt;Have you taken a look at Scrum, or perhaps read some of the books? Do you have the impression that you are missing some of the pieces of the puzzle needed to really understand Scrum? Or are you working within a Scrum Team, but have the feeling your not making any progress? Do you want to know how experienced Scrum Masters and Coaches dealt with difficult situations?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;form action="http://www.sierra-charlie.com/course" autocomplete="on" method="post"&gt;&lt;input autocomplete="on" type="submit" value="Register" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/form&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Oqkv5zzx0UA/SOyrRgcQPAI/AAAAAAAAAGw/l3fepTNTAOo/s1600-h/BallPointGame.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Oqkv5zzx0UA/SOyrRgcQPAI/AAAAAAAAAGw/CGyfpkG1zvc/s200-R/BallPointGame.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;The trainers Andreas Schliep and Peter Stevens will accompany you through the highs and lows of the Scrum framework. Experience two exciting and insightful days, which will make everything about Scrum much clearer. With two (sometimes conflicting) perspectives from experienced Scrum Masters, you can deepen your own experience and judgment in applying Scrum.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Agenda &lt;/h3&gt;The content of this course is directed strongly by the needs of the participants. The following is a guideline and the exact contents are tailored to the needs of the students.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;Day 1 &lt;/h4&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Introductions &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Overview: Goals, What is Scrum?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Agile versus traditional: Values, Principles, Thought Patterns&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;     Scrum Ingredients: Roles, Meetings, Artifacts&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;     Scrum History: How did Scrum come to be&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Starting Scrum: From the Vision to the Backlog to the First Sprint Planning&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;h4&gt;Day 2 &lt;/h4&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;     Product Owner: Support by Prioritizing, Planning and Communication&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;     The Team: Organizing self-organization&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;The ScrumMaster: How do I fill the role?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;  Finishing the Sprint and Scrum Reporting: Getting in the Groove&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Typical Scrum Problems: Case Studies and Countermeasures&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;     Live Scrum 59   &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;     Scrum Team Works: Toosl, Scaling, Techniques&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;My task as ScrumMaster: Questions and Answers&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Now what?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Your Trainers&lt;/h3&gt;Andreas Schliep, Certified Scrum Trainer, born 1969, had many years of experience as a software developer, team leader and project manager before he focused on Scrum Coaching and Training in 2006. He brings combined practical experience from the day to day challenges of software projects with the experieneces of various Scrum Implmentations in Europe and South America.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Peter Stevens, Certified Scrum Practitioner, born 1959, started his career in 1982 as a Software Engineer at Microsoft. He first got interested in Scrum in 2005 while working for MySQL. Since 2006 he has been using Scrum both throughout Switzerland and abroad, to rescue and guide various projects large and small to a successful conclusion. He is also one of the cofounders of the &lt;a href="http://www.swissict.ch/lean.html"&gt;Lean-Agile-Scrum&lt;/a&gt; specialist group of the SwissICT.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3&gt;What should I bring? &lt;/h3&gt;Comfortable clothes, something to write with (the course material will be made available at the end of the course as a PDF file), an open attitude, and many questions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Audience and Prerequisites&lt;/h3&gt;This course is ideal for Scrum Masters, Project Leaders, Product Owners or IT Managers who wish to deepen their understanding of Scrum.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You should have previous experience with Scrum. This can be gained by taking the &lt;a href="http://training.scrum-breakfast.com/2008/09/agile-project-management-with-scrum.html"&gt;Scrum Jumpstart&lt;/a&gt; course, studying the &lt;a href="http://www.scrum-breakfast.com/2008/07/books-for-getting-started-with-scrum.html"&gt;standard literature on Scrum&lt;/a&gt;, or working in a Scrum Project. If in doubt, please &lt;a href="http://www.sierra-charlie.com/contact.php?c=8"&gt;contact us&lt;/a&gt; for more information.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Certification &lt;/h3&gt;Participants who successfully complete the course become Certified Scrum Masters and receive a 1 year membership in the Scrum Alliance.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Effective 1 October 2009, all CSMs will be required to complete a Certified ScrumMaster course and pass a Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) online certification exam to maintain certification.&amp;nbsp; Please read more about Scrum certification from the &lt;a href="http://www.scrumalliance.org/pages/certified_scrummaster_csm"&gt;Scrum Alliance&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Registration&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Language: German&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Location Zurich, Switzerland — Digicomp Academy, &lt;a href="http://map.search.ch/8005-zuerich/limmatstr.50?z=1024"&gt;Limmatstr 50, 8005 Zürich &lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://map.search.ch/zuerich/baslerstr.60?poi=verkehr,gastro,anzeigen"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Time: Coffee and Registration 8:30, Course Times from 9:00 to 17:00 (maybe 17:30 on the first day)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Lodging: please contact us if you need help selecting a &lt;a href="http://map.search.ch/8005-zuerich/limmatstr.50?z=512&amp;amp;poi=hotel"&gt;nearby hotel&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Prices and Dates: This course is offered every two months. See &lt;a href="http://sierra-charlie.com/course/"&gt;Registration&lt;/a&gt; for details. &lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.sierra-charlie.com/course/"&gt;Register for this course online.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can also book Certified Scrum Master Training as an In-House training in English or German for your company. Please &lt;a href="http://www.sierra-charlie.com/contact.php?c=8"&gt;contact us&lt;/a&gt; for more information.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;form action="http://www.sierra-charlie.com/course" autocomplete="on" method="post"&gt;&lt;input autocomplete="on" type="submit" value="Register" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/form&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1494848218430573187-7930851694037166833?l=training.scrum-breakfast.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ScrumBreakfastTraining/~4/GUaxWYRWh3U" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://training.scrum-breakfast.com/feeds/7930851694037166833/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1494848218430573187&amp;postID=7930851694037166833" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1494848218430573187/posts/default/7930851694037166833" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1494848218430573187/posts/default/7930851694037166833" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ScrumBreakfastTraining/~3/GUaxWYRWh3U/certified-scrummaster-training-with.html" title="Certified ScrumMaster Training with Andreas Schliep and Peter Stevens" /><author><name>Peter</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04855156445588778076</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005" name="OpenSocialUserId" value="07753241731377477509" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Oqkv5zzx0UA/SOyrRgcQPAI/AAAAAAAAAGw/CGyfpkG1zvc/s72-Rc/BallPointGame.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://training.scrum-breakfast.com/2008/10/certified-scrummaster-training-with.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1494848218430573187.post-822153784346764480</id><published>2008-10-08T18:05:00.011+02:00</published><updated>2009-10-31T16:16:11.516+01:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Courses - scheduled" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="switzerland" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="product owner" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="agile" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="zurich" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="schweiz" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="planning" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Courses - catalogue" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="peap" /><title type="text">Practical Product Owner</title><content type="html">&lt;b&gt;Planning and Managing Agile Projects&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Oqkv5zzx0UA/SOzjnpQOdBI/AAAAAAAAAG8/oMvpXGejYdk/s1600-h/User+Stories+after+First+Brainstorming.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Oqkv5zzx0UA/SOzjnpQOdBI/AAAAAAAAAG8/f7pslEnqMP0/s200-R/User+Stories+after+First+Brainstorming.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;You've looked at Scrum and XP and maybe done a project or two, and you think 'Scrum is good, but how do I plan a project if every month we can completely change the deliverables? How do I calculate a price or a schedule? How do I make Scrum "CFO Compatible?"'&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;form action="http://www.sierra-charlie.com/course" autocomplete="on" method="post"&gt;&lt;input autocomplete="on" type="submit" value="Register" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/form&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you are a Product Owner, Scrum Master, Program Manager or Sales Consultant who needs to reliably estimate, schedule and price a software development project using agile methods, this course is for you: A two day immersion into creating great products, agile planning and estimating, and managing the agile team.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Topics&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Product Owner: Duties, Rights and Privileges&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Creating Products that Excite Your Customers&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Guiding self organizing teams&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Personae, User Stories, Story Points and Business Value &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Creating &amp;amp; Prioritizing the Product Backlog&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Sizing the Project, generating time estimates and milestones&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Monitoring Progress&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;The Role of Line Management in a Scrum Organization&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Scaling to large projects&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Contracting and the Dreaded Fix Priced Bid&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;The Agile Quote&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;The Agile Request for Proposal&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;After completing this course, you will be able (with the help of your Scrum Team) to create, budget, plan and schedule and quote an agile project.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Audience and Prerequisites&lt;/h3&gt;This course is idea for Product Owners, Scrum Masters, Project Leaders, Product Owners, IT Managers and Sales Consultants who want to plan, budget and bid on agile projects.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You should have previous experience with Scrum. The following books are recommended as preparation:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;User Stories Applied; Mike Cohn&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Agile Estimating and Planning; Mike Cohn&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Scrum. Produkte zuverlässig und schnell entwickeln; Boris Gloger; Hanser 2008&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;You can also prepare yourself by taking the &lt;a href="http://training.scrum-breakfast.com/2008/09/agile-project-management-with-scrum.html"&gt;Scrum Jumpstart&lt;/a&gt; course. If in you have any questions, please &lt;a href="http://www.sierra-charlie.com/contact.php?c=8"&gt;contact us&lt;/a&gt; for more information.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Your Trainer&lt;/h3&gt;Peter Stevens, Certified Scrum Practitioner, born 1959, started his career in 1982 as a Software Engineer at Microsoft. He first got interested in Scrum in 2005 while working as Professional Services Manager, EMEA für MySQL. Since 2006 he has been using Scrum for projects in the German and French parts of Switzerland, to rescue and guide various project large and small to a successful conclusion. He writes regularly about project planning and management for &lt;a href="http://agilesoftwaredevelopment.com/blog/peterstev/"&gt;agilesoftwaredevelopment.com&lt;/a&gt;. He is also one of the co-founders of the Lean-Agile-Scrum specialist group of the SwissICT.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Registration&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Language: German&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Location Zurich, Switzerland — Digicomp Academy, &lt;a href="http://map.search.ch/8005-zuerich/limmatstr.50?z=1024"&gt;Limmatstr 50, 8005 Zürich &lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://map.search.ch/zuerich/baslerstr.60?poi=verkehr,gastro,anzeigen"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Time: Coffee and Registration 8:30, Course Times from 9:00 to 17.00 (with 17:30 for overflow on day 1)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Lodging: please contact us if you need help selecting a &lt;a href="http://map.search.ch/8005-zuerich/limmatstr.50?z=512&amp;amp;poi=hotel"&gt;nearby hotel&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Prices and Dates: &lt;a href="http://sierra-charlie.com/course/"&gt;Registration&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;You can also book &lt;i&gt;Practical Product Owner &lt;/i&gt;as an In-House course in English, German or French. Please &lt;a href="http://www.sierra-charlie.com/contact.php?c=8"&gt;contact us&lt;/a&gt; for more information.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;form action="http://www.sierra-charlie.com/course" autocomplete="on" method="post"&gt;&lt;input autocomplete="on" type="submit" value="Register" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/form&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1494848218430573187-822153784346764480?l=training.scrum-breakfast.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ScrumBreakfastTraining/~4/20KFdYD795c" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://training.scrum-breakfast.com/feeds/822153784346764480/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1494848218430573187&amp;postID=822153784346764480" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1494848218430573187/posts/default/822153784346764480" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1494848218430573187/posts/default/822153784346764480" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ScrumBreakfastTraining/~3/20KFdYD795c/planning-and-estimating-agile-projects.html" title="Practical Product Owner" /><author><name>Peter</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04855156445588778076</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005" name="OpenSocialUserId" value="07753241731377477509" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Oqkv5zzx0UA/SOzjnpQOdBI/AAAAAAAAAG8/f7pslEnqMP0/s72-Rc/User+Stories+after+First+Brainstorming.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://training.scrum-breakfast.com/2008/10/planning-and-estimating-agile-projects.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1494848218430573187.post-6254092762774885753</id><published>2008-10-08T17:55:00.028+02:00</published><updated>2009-10-13T17:31:11.690+02:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Courses - scheduled" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="switzerland" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="jump start" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="apms" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="zurich" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="schweiz" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Courses - catalogue" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="scrum" /><title type="text">Scrum Jumpstart</title><content type="html">&lt;h4&gt;Jumpstart your Scrum Team!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;Do you want to get started with Scrum? Does your team need hands on experience before starting a "real" project? Do need to convince a skeptic that Scrum is the way to go?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.sierra-charlie.com/image/PeterStevens.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.sierra-charlie.com/image/PeterStevens.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;This the course for you: an introduction to Scrum for developers, project leaders, business analysts and program managers who want get started with Scrum. After completing this course, your head will understand Scrum, your stomach will have digested why Scrum works, and your hands will be able to do Scrum.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;form action="http://www.sierra-charlie.com/course" method="post"&gt;  &lt;input type="submit" value="Register" /&gt;&lt;/form&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;A Customer Recommendation:&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a class="abp-objtab-05922948681348561 visible ontop" href="http://www.youtube.com/v/kXJKElhzrrg&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1" style="left: 340px! important; top: 15px! important;" title="Click here to block this object with Adblock Plus"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a class="abp-objtab-05922948681348561 visible ontop" href="http://www.youtube.com/v/kXJKElhzrrg&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1" style="left: 340px! important; top: 15px! important;" title="Click here to block this object with Adblock Plus"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;object height="200" width="250"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/kXJKElhzrrg&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/kXJKElhzrrg&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="200" width="250"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anton Schultschick, Head of IT-Support, &lt;br /&gt;Electrical Engineering Department, ETH Zurich&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This course consists of 4 Modules of 1/2 day each:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;What is Scrum? Scrum Retrospectives&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;First Contact with Scrum, Introduction to Agile Estimating and Planning&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Scrum in Depth, other Frameworks, Engineering Practices and Scrum&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Sprint Zero and One: Getting Started with Scrum&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;h4&gt;Your Trainer&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;Peter Stevens, Certified Scrum Practitioner, born 1959, started his career in 1982 as a Software Engineer at Microsoft. He first got interested in Scrum in 2005 while working for MySQL. Since 2006 he has been using Scrum both throughout Switzerland and abroad, to rescue and guide various projects large and small to a successful conclusion. He is also one of the cofounders of the &lt;a href="http://www.swissict.ch/lean.html"&gt;Lean-Agile-Scrum&lt;/a&gt; specialist group of the SwissICT.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;Audience&lt;/h4&gt;The &lt;b&gt;Scrum Jumpstart&lt;/b&gt; is ideal for&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Teams and organizations getting started with Scrum.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Managers, consultants or project leaders who are considering whether to deploy Scrum in their organizations. &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Teams or organizations who have had difficulties doing Scrum properly. &lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;Their are no prerequisites, but familiarity with Scrum, XP or software development will be helpful.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;Certificate&lt;/h4&gt;Participants who actively complete all four units receive a certificate of accomplishment from Swiss Scrum Pioneer and Certified Scrum Practitioner Peter Stevens. This course qualifies for 16 PDU's for maintaining &lt;a href="http://www.pmi.org/CareerDevelopment/Pages/MaintainYourCredential.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;PMI credentials&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;Registration&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Language: German&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Location: &lt;a href="http://map.search.ch/8005-zuerich/limmatstr.50?z=1024"&gt;Zurich&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href="http://map.search.ch/3011-bern/bubenbergplatz-11?z=1024"&gt;Bern&lt;/a&gt;, Switzerland — c/o Digicomp Academy&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Time: Coffee and Registration 8:00, Course Times from 8:30 to 16.30 (with 17:00 for overflow)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Lodging: please contact us if you need help selecting a &lt;a href="http://map.search.ch/8005-zuerich/limmatstr.50?z=512&amp;amp;poi=hotel"&gt;nearby hotel&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;For prices and dates: continue to &lt;a href="http://sierra-charlie.com/course/"&gt;Registration&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;The course language is German, the course materials are in English.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.sierra-charlie.com/course/"&gt;Register for this course online.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can also jump start your entire team with In-House training in English, German, or French. Please &lt;a href="http://www.sierra-charlie.com/contact.php?c=8"&gt;contact us&lt;/a&gt; for more information.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;form action="http://www.sierra-charlie.com/course" method="post"&gt;  &lt;input type="submit" value="Register" /&gt;&lt;/form&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1494848218430573187-6254092762774885753?l=training.scrum-breakfast.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ScrumBreakfastTraining/~4/H5OoSM0DnhA" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://training.scrum-breakfast.com/feeds/6254092762774885753/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1494848218430573187&amp;postID=6254092762774885753" title="1 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1494848218430573187/posts/default/6254092762774885753" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1494848218430573187/posts/default/6254092762774885753" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ScrumBreakfastTraining/~3/H5OoSM0DnhA/agile-project-management-with-scrum.html" title="Scrum Jumpstart" /><author><name>Peter</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04855156445588778076</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005" name="OpenSocialUserId" value="07753241731377477509" /></author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">1</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://training.scrum-breakfast.com/2008/09/agile-project-management-with-scrum.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1494848218430573187.post-4928847135428999855</id><published>2008-09-24T09:26:00.007+02:00</published><updated>2008-10-09T06:56:35.780+02:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="agile" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="adoption" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="ceo" /><title type="text">8 Questions for Your CEO</title><content type="html">&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;[This article was originally posted as &lt;a href="http://www.scrum-breakfast.com/2008/09/8-questions-for-your-ceo.html"&gt;8 Questions for Your CEO&lt;/a&gt; on the main Scrum Breakfast blog.]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Have you been wondering how to get your CEO's attention long enough to have a conversation about agile? Here are 8 questions, inspired by &lt;a href="http://www.thomsett.com.au/"&gt;Rob Thomsett&lt;/a&gt;, long time Agile Evangelist and keynote speaker at this year's Agile Business Conference in London:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Are project management and development free of bureaucracy?&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Are projects delivered fast enough?&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Are the project business cases well developed and managed?&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Is the level of transparency around projects sufficient?&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Are Steering Committees effective?&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Are the progress reports you receive accurate?&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Have you ever been, or do you expect to be &lt;a href="http://draft.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=4567408997062465825&amp;amp;postID=556324251546155662#ambushed"&gt;ambushed&lt;/a&gt; about a project you are sponsoring?&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;Chances are good your top management will answer 'no' to most if not all of these questions, except for the last one. These are all symptoms of disease. This disease has no name, but it is closed, dishonest and distrustful. It poisons the atmosphere and prevents effective communication.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Agile is about openness, honesty, trust, courage, and an ethical attitude towards money. Agile can cure the disease, but is not without side effects: a dramatic cultural change in your company.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By asking the questions, you should have gotten his attention. The eighth question is, 'do you want the cure?'&lt;br /&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;BTW - &lt;a href="http://draft.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=1494848218430573187&amp;amp;postID=4928847135428999855" name="ambushed"&gt;Ambushed&lt;/a&gt; means that a peer (i.e. rival in the company) learned bad news about your project before you did and surprised you with it in meeting in front of all your peers. Very embarrassing. Operational staff often learns about an ambush through a very heated discussion with said top manager after the fact.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Update - Have you tried these questions on your CEO or executive management? How did it go? Leave comment with the main article, &lt;a href="http://www.scrum-breakfast.com/2008/09/8-questions-for-your-ceo.html"&gt;8 Questions for Your CEO&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1494848218430573187-4928847135428999855?l=training.scrum-breakfast.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ScrumBreakfastTraining/~4/U_mrdv9RMjA" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://training.scrum-breakfast.com/feeds/4928847135428999855/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1494848218430573187&amp;postID=4928847135428999855" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1494848218430573187/posts/default/4928847135428999855" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1494848218430573187/posts/default/4928847135428999855" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ScrumBreakfastTraining/~3/U_mrdv9RMjA/8-questions-for-your-ceo.html" title="8 Questions for Your CEO" /><author><name>Peter</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04855156445588778076</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005" name="OpenSocialUserId" value="07753241731377477509" /></author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://training.scrum-breakfast.com/2008/09/8-questions-for-your-ceo.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1494848218430573187.post-4749871885746011286</id><published>2008-06-15T18:05:00.010+02:00</published><updated>2009-10-10T10:09:51.697+02:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="in-house" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="on-site" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="training" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Courses - catalogue" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="scrum" /><title type="text">Scrum In House Training</title><content type="html">An in-house training is a optimal vehicle to get a team ready to do Scrum. Your Developers, Testers Product Owners, Developers, Project Leaders and other team members learn to do Scrum and use Scrum to get their project ready to do Scrum.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;“I have experienced Peter as a great trainer and excellent workshop moderator during a two day SCRUM course I was lucky to take part in. Peter has a deep and detailed knowledge of the AGILE methodologies and rich hands on experience with SCRUM.”&lt;br /&gt;-- &lt;a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/dubravkawidmer"&gt;Dubravka Widmer-Kljajo&lt;/a&gt;, Wirtschaftsinformatikerin Web &amp;amp; Java at &lt;a href="http://draft.blogger.com/goog_1225918465442"&gt;               &lt;/a&gt;Die Mobiliar, October 18, 2008 &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;"A training which bore fruit already in the following week!”                                          &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.linkedin.com/profile?viewProfile=&amp;amp;key=842971&amp;amp;noCreateProposal=true&amp;amp;goback=%2Eprf" title="View François's Profile"&gt;François Bachmann&lt;/a&gt;, Certified Scrum Practitioner, October 22, 2008&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;"The exercise Sprint Zero and One was a high point of the course"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://people.ee.ethz.ch/%7Easchults/"&gt;Anton Schultschik&lt;/a&gt;, Manager of IT Support at the ETH Zürich&lt;br /&gt;See his full &lt;a href="http://www.scrum-breakfast.com/2008/11/recommendations.html"&gt;video recommendation&lt;/a&gt;...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;Any of the following course can be performed on your company site in English, German or French:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://training.scrum-breakfast.com/2008/06/course-scrum-project-management-for.html"&gt;Scrum Jumpstart&lt;/a&gt; - Total Immersion in Scrum to get your team working effectively&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://training.scrum-breakfast.com/2008/10/planning-and-estimating-agile-projects.html"&gt;Product Owner: Planning and Managing Agile Projects&lt;/a&gt; - Make Scrum CFO-Compatible in your Company&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://training.scrum-breakfast.com/2008/10/certified-scrummaster-training-with.html"&gt;Advanced Certified ScrumMaster Training with Andreas Schliep and Peter Stevens&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 78%;"&gt;(English &amp;amp; German only)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://training.scrum-breakfast.com/2008/06/workshop-scrum-sprint-zero-with.html"&gt;Sprint Zero with TargetProcess&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;(The fine print: course materials are in English)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The first step is easy: &lt;a href="http://www.sierra-charlie.com/contact.php?c=8"&gt;contact me&lt;/a&gt; for more information.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1494848218430573187-4749871885746011286?l=training.scrum-breakfast.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ScrumBreakfastTraining/~4/rjwmKZZBhrA" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://training.scrum-breakfast.com/feeds/4749871885746011286/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1494848218430573187&amp;postID=4749871885746011286" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1494848218430573187/posts/default/4749871885746011286" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1494848218430573187/posts/default/4749871885746011286" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ScrumBreakfastTraining/~3/rjwmKZZBhrA/scrum-breakfast-on-site-courses_15.html" title="Scrum In House Training" /><author><name>Peter</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04855156445588778076</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005" name="OpenSocialUserId" value="07753241731377477509" /></author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://training.scrum-breakfast.com/2008/06/scrum-breakfast-on-site-courses_15.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1494848218430573187.post-6546145566847540005</id><published>2008-06-15T14:05:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2008-09-21T18:55:02.825+02:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="switzerland" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="europe" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="apms" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="zurich" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="german" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="scrum" /><title type="text">Agile PM with Scrum (in German) Zürich - September 9 &amp; 10, 2008</title><content type="html">Next Scrum Course in German: &lt;a href="http://training-scrum-breakfast.blogspot.com/2008/06/course-scrum-project-management-for.html"&gt;Agile Project Management with Scrum&lt;/a&gt; this September in Zürich:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Language: German&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Location: Zurich — &lt;a href="http://www.digicomp.ch/cgi-bin/digiweb?ID=6P1PBcEIO20AAHtWA2AAAAAD&amp;amp;Q=&amp;amp;S=1::115;111;::71:155:::1:81:&amp;amp;P=&amp;amp;MT=MT1&amp;amp;pro=65" target="new"&gt;Digicomp Acadamy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Date: September 9 and 10, 2008&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Time: Coffee and Registration, 8:00, Course runs 9:00  to 17.00&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Detailed description: &lt;a href="http://training-scrum-breakfast.blogspot.com/2008/06/course-scrum-project-management-for.html"&gt;Agile Project Management with Scrum&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Price €995.– (CHF 1'580.–)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;How to plan, manage and control the Scrum software development process. A hands on introduction to the concepts needed by and tasks performed by the agile Project Manager (Scrum Master) and Customer or Program Manager (“Product Owner”) and the development team.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This course offers the substance of a Certified Scrum Master training without the expense of certification.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.sierra-charlie.com/course/?c=0"&gt;Register for Course Agile PM with Scrum (in German)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Price €995.– (CHF 1'580.–)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For those who want more hands on experience, the next day I will hold Workshop Scrum Sprint Zero with TargetProcess (also in German). Hands on, going though the entire process of planing, estimating, starting and reviewing a sprint. Not just for TargetProcess users.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Price €635.– (CHF 990.–)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.sierra-charlie.com/course/?c=1"&gt;Register for Workshop Scrum Sprint Zero with TargetProcess (in German)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can sign up for both courses for €1'495.– (CHF 2'370–). You save €135.–.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.sierra-charlie.com/course/?c=2"&gt;Register for both, get theoretical, practical and hands on experience, and save!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1494848218430573187-6546145566847540005?l=training.scrum-breakfast.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ScrumBreakfastTraining/~4/9A-eBDAcrhU" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://training.scrum-breakfast.com/feeds/6546145566847540005/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1494848218430573187&amp;postID=6546145566847540005" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1494848218430573187/posts/default/6546145566847540005" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1494848218430573187/posts/default/6546145566847540005" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ScrumBreakfastTraining/~3/9A-eBDAcrhU/agile-pm-with-scrum-in-german-zrich.html" title="Agile PM with Scrum (in German) &lt;br&gt;Zürich - September 9 &amp; 10, 2008" /><author><name>Peter</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04855156445588778076</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005" name="OpenSocialUserId" value="07753241731377477509" /></author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://training.scrum-breakfast.com/2008/06/agile-pm-with-scrum-in-german-zrich.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1494848218430573187.post-1775050700115617999</id><published>2008-06-15T14:00:00.009+02:00</published><updated>2009-01-03T13:34:36.776+01:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="switzerland" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="europe" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="zurich" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="sztp" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="scrum" /><title type="text">Sprint Zero with TargetProcess (in German) Zürich, September 11, 2008</title><content type="html">You have done the Scrum training and read the book. Now it's time to roll up your sleeves and start your first sprint. What now? A hands on workshop, going though the entire process of planing, estimating, starting and reviewing a sprint. Not just for TargetProcess users.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The "getting started with Scrum" workshop will be held directly after the course &lt;a href="http://training-scrum-breakfast.blogspot.com/2008/06/agile-pm-with-scrum-in-german-zrich.html"&gt;Agile Project Management with Scrum&lt;/a&gt; in Zürich.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Language: German&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Location: Zurich — &lt;a href="http://www.digicomp.ch/cgi-bin/digiweb?ID=6P1PBcEIO20AAHtWA2AAAAAD&amp;amp;Q=&amp;amp;S=1::115;111;::71:155:::1:81:&amp;amp;P=&amp;amp;MT=MT1&amp;amp;pro=65" target="new"&gt;Digicomp Acadamy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Date: September 11, 2008&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Time: Coffee and Registration, 8:00, Course runs 9:00  to 17.00&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Detailed description: &lt;a href="http://training-scrum-breakfast.blogspot.com/2008/06/workshop-scrum-sprint-zero-with.html"&gt;Sprint Zero with TargetProcess&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;Price €635.– (CHF 990.–)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.sierra-charlie.com/course/?c=1"&gt;Register for Workshop Scrum Sprint Zero with TargetProcess (in German)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Want a compete foundation and hands on experience? Combine this course with  &lt;a href="http://training-scrum-breakfast.blogspot.com/2008/06/agile-pm-with-scrum-in-german-zrich.html"&gt;Agile Project Management with Scrum&lt;/a&gt;  and save  €135.–. &lt;a href="http://training-scrum-breakfast.blogspot.com/2008/06/agile-pm-with-scrum-in-german-zrich.html"&gt;Click here&lt;/a&gt; for more information.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1494848218430573187-1775050700115617999?l=training.scrum-breakfast.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ScrumBreakfastTraining/~4/C9Ee5UzQ1YM" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://training.scrum-breakfast.com/feeds/1775050700115617999/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1494848218430573187&amp;postID=1775050700115617999" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1494848218430573187/posts/default/1775050700115617999" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1494848218430573187/posts/default/1775050700115617999" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ScrumBreakfastTraining/~3/C9Ee5UzQ1YM/sprint-zero-with-targetprocess-in.html" title="Sprint Zero with TargetProcess (in German) &lt;br&gt;Zürich, September 11, 2008" /><author><name>Peter</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04855156445588778076</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005" name="OpenSocialUserId" value="07753241731377477509" /></author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://training.scrum-breakfast.com/2008/06/sprint-zero-with-targetprocess-in.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1494848218430573187.post-5802199074726378581</id><published>2008-06-13T09:00:00.013+02:00</published><updated>2009-10-17T06:56:36.838+02:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="TargetProcess" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="sztp" /><title type="text">Workshop Description: Sprint Zero with TargetProcess</title><content type="html">&lt;h2&gt;Abstract&lt;/h2&gt;You have done the Scrum training and read the book. Now it's time to roll up your sleeves and start your first sprint. What now?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This course emphasizes hands on experience. Based on a real life example, we will work through the entire process of planing, estimating, starting and reviewing a sprint. Not just for TargetProcess users!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Objectives&lt;/h2&gt;After completing this workshop, you have actual experience planning and managing a Scrum Sprint. Futhermore, you will have experience and confidence to perform all of the key tasks in planning, executing and managing a sprint using TargetProcess&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Audience&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Project and Program Managers&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Product Owners and Scrum Masters&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Consultants and Managers evaluating Scrum or Target Process for their teams or companies&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Teams getting ready to deploy Scrum for the first time&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Users of TargetProcess or planning to use it.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Topics&lt;/h2&gt;Product Planning, Sprint Planning, Definition of Done, Sprint Contract, Daily Scrum, Sprint Demo &amp;amp; Retrospective. Bug Tracking, Customer Communication. Customizing Target Process.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Availability, Pricing and Booking&lt;/h2&gt;This course is only offered as an in house course for your company on site in English, German or French. Please contact us for details.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Certificate&lt;/h2&gt;All participants who remain until at least 16.00 (4:00pm) will receive a Certificate of Participation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Conditions&lt;/h2&gt;See &lt;a href="http://training-scrum-breakfast.blogspot.com/2008/06/terms-and-conditions.html"&gt;general terms and conditions&lt;/a&gt; for details.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1494848218430573187-5802199074726378581?l=training.scrum-breakfast.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ScrumBreakfastTraining/~4/DyeaR7qp474" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://training.scrum-breakfast.com/feeds/5802199074726378581/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1494848218430573187&amp;postID=5802199074726378581" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1494848218430573187/posts/default/5802199074726378581" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1494848218430573187/posts/default/5802199074726378581" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ScrumBreakfastTraining/~3/DyeaR7qp474/workshop-scrum-sprint-zero-with.html" title="Workshop Description: &lt;br&gt;Sprint Zero with TargetProcess" /><author><name>Peter</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04855156445588778076</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005" name="OpenSocialUserId" value="07753241731377477509" /></author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://training.scrum-breakfast.com/2008/06/workshop-scrum-sprint-zero-with.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1494848218430573187.post-3656176933087873179</id><published>2008-06-13T09:00:00.012+02:00</published><updated>2009-01-03T13:33:20.223+01:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="apms" /><title type="text">Agile Project Management for Scrum Teams</title><content type="html">Agile Project Management for Scrum Teams has been renamed &lt;a href="http://training.scrum-breakfast.com/2008/09/agile-project-management-with-scrum.html"&gt;Scrum Jumpstart&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:x-small;"&gt;[Revised January 3, 2009] &lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1494848218430573187-3656176933087873179?l=training.scrum-breakfast.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ScrumBreakfastTraining/~4/5zKZbgPLKxg" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://training.scrum-breakfast.com/feeds/3656176933087873179/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1494848218430573187&amp;postID=3656176933087873179" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1494848218430573187/posts/default/3656176933087873179" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1494848218430573187/posts/default/3656176933087873179" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ScrumBreakfastTraining/~3/5zKZbgPLKxg/course-scrum-project-management-for.html" title="Agile Project Management for Scrum Teams" /><author><name>Peter</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04855156445588778076</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005" name="OpenSocialUserId" value="07753241731377477509" /></author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://training.scrum-breakfast.com/2008/06/course-scrum-project-management-for.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1494848218430573187.post-202603736214933456</id><published>2008-06-13T09:00:00.005+02:00</published><updated>2008-07-15T15:08:49.119+02:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Terms" /><title type="text">Terms and Conditions</title><content type="html">&lt;h2&gt;Course Fees&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;Payment is due with your registration. The published price at the time of your registration is the price you will be invoiced. Prices are subject to change without notice. We accept Swiss Francs and Euros.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Participants who have not paid in advance must pay at the door.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Cancellation/Substitution&lt;/h2&gt;Registration is binding. Attendee substitutions are permitted. Registrants who fail to attend are subject to payment of the full registration fee if they have not obtained a cancellation approval from our Customer Service at least 6 working days prior to the event start date. If registrants wish to reschedule a registration within 6 working days before the start date of the class, they will be subject to a €100/CHF 165 course change fee. To obtain cancellation approval or substitute a registration, please contact Customer Service at +41 44 586 6450 or via web &lt;a href="http://www.sierra-charlie.com/contact.php"&gt;online&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Rescheduling&lt;/h2&gt;We endeavor to hold all courses as scheduled. We reserve the right to reschedule the event 10 days before the event if there are insufficient registrations -- You will be notified in writing (E-Mail, Letter or SMS) if this occurs. You may change or cancel your registration with out fee if we have to reschedule.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Scope&lt;/h2&gt;Course duration, price, goals, content, audience, prerequisites and other details are defined in the course description. The course price includes handouts, materials and use of relevant IT systems.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Meals, Travel and Hotel are not included in the course fees.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Certificate of Participation&lt;/h2&gt;All participants who are present from the start of the first day til 16.00 (4:00 pm) of the last day of the event shall receive a certificate of participation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Copyright&lt;/h2&gt;By registering for a course, you agree to observe the following conditions of use:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Course Materials and Software used in the courses (e.g. Software &amp;amp; Operating Systems) are subject to Copyright restrictions and are made available for personal use during the course. Software may not be copied or taken home.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Without written permission from Sierra-Charlie consulting, course matierals, text, photos etc. may not copied, scanned, reproduced, translated or processed electronically, nor may they be used for internal or external purposes.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;All materials are intellectual property of Peter Stevens, Sierra-Charlie Consulting.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Civil Liability &lt;/h2&gt;Civil Liabilty is excluded to limits permited by Swiss Law.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If a course cannot be held due to an Act of God (e.g. Sickness or Accident involving the instructor), the liability of Sierra Charlie Consulting for participant's travel expenses is limited to a maximum of CHF 100.-- (€ 65.--) per person.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In no case shall we be held liable for travel expenses or other third party fees arising as a result of cancellation or rescheduling or an event which was communicated in due time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Changes to Contract&lt;/h2&gt;Sierra-Charlie Consulting reserves the right to modify the course program as well as these Terms and Conditions without notice. Your registration is govered by the conditions in effect at the time of your registration, which you will receive together with your confirmation. The current conditions are published on our website.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Venue, Governing Law&lt;/h2&gt;This agreement is subject exclusively to Swiss Law. The venue for any disputes arising out of this agreement in CH-8049 Zürich.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Last Update: June 2008&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1494848218430573187-202603736214933456?l=training.scrum-breakfast.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ScrumBreakfastTraining/~4/NBakIHgDVMc" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://training.scrum-breakfast.com/feeds/202603736214933456/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1494848218430573187&amp;postID=202603736214933456" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1494848218430573187/posts/default/202603736214933456" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1494848218430573187/posts/default/202603736214933456" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ScrumBreakfastTraining/~3/NBakIHgDVMc/terms-and-conditions.html" title="Terms and Conditions" /><author><name>Peter</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04855156445588778076</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005" name="OpenSocialUserId" value="07753241731377477509" /></author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://training.scrum-breakfast.com/2008/06/terms-and-conditions.html</feedburner:origLink></entry></feed>
