Scrum Workshop

When: April 15, 2011
Where: Hotel Golden Tulip Times, Bucharest
Early Bird Price: 400 € + VAT until March 23, 2011
Nominal Price: 450€ + VAT starting March 24,2011.

Join this workshop if you want to start your Scrum project successfully and to keep being successful with your project.

This is a very practical exercise applied on your real project, so the whole team should be present (including the Product Owner and even someone with financial information about the project). You can still get value from this exercise if you cannot do that (see below).

Each Workshop is a little bit different. But the focus is on two things:

• Complete a good (decent) Release Planning for the real project or effort that the team is working on. It is best if the team is just starting the effort. And it is best if the team has access to all the people and resources to make the Release Planning effective. Release Planning includes (over-simplified): Vision, Product Backlog development, Business Value (points), Story Pointing, Risks-dependencies-other, Ordering the work, Deciding the scope-date trade-off, Budget. We also talk about infrastructure, architecture, and design (IAD)
• Complete a version of Sprint Planning. Over-simplified, this includes: Agreeing on the PBIs (product backlog items, or user stories) to commit to in the Sprint, and breaking the Stories into tasks. And fully committing. (I define this as: “We believe, 9 times out of 10, with the usual “stuff happens” around here, we can get all these stories done, in our best professional judgment. And maybe do more.”)

This workshop will be lead by Joe Little and Maria Diaconu.

Read more about the workshop here.

When: April 13-14, 2011
Where: Hotel Golden Tulip Times, Bucharest
Early Bird Price: 850 € + VAT until March 23, 2011
Nominal Price: 950€ + VAT starting March 24,2011.

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Learn the essentials of working as a ScrumMaster or Scrum team member in this practical course. At the end of the class, you will be ready to plan your first Sprint and you will know a lot of useful things about how and why Scrum works.

The CSM course was formulated to train and certify ScrumMasters and is used worldwide for ScrumMaster training. While the Scrum Alliance provides a list of core concepts that must be covered in the class, each instructor creates his or her own material, allowing courses to differ based on the strengths, interests, and experiences of the instructor.

All CSM courses are taught by Certified Scrum Trainers. Taking a CSM course and the corresponding evaluation designates you as a Certified ScrumMaster, which indicates that you have been introduced to the basic concepts you need to perform as a ScrumMaster or team member on a Scrum team. This course also satisfies two elements of the CSD track: Scrum Introduction and Elective. Participants will receive Certified ScrumMaster designation from the Scrum Alliance upon completion of an on-line exam. Participants will also receive a one-year membership in the Scrum Alliance, where additional ScrumMaster-only material and information are available.

This course will be led by Joe Little.  Joe is an experienced Agile Coach and Scrum Trainer.  He co-teaches regularly with Jeff Sutherland and other great Scrum trainers.  He has a CSM, CSP, CST and an MBA.

Find out more about the class here.

When: May 11-12, 2011
Where: Bucharest, location to be announced
Early Bird Price: 390€ + VAT until April 20th 2011
Nominal Price: 450€ + VAT starting April 21st 2011

Join Alexandru Bolboaca and learn how to write good, simple, manageable unit tests suites so that you can increase the your development speed while reducing issues and producing a simple design.

Automating developer tests is a proven way of reducing issues while increasing productivity over the whole lifetime of the project. Automated tests are a solution if you find yourself often in the situation when:

• You don’t have a testing team
• Testing the application takes a long time
• The testing team finds issues that could have been avoided during development (crashes, unexpected behaviors etc.)
• The maintenance of the project is very costly
• The end users or the customer find issues in the product

The trouble is that unit testing can become a burden if it’s not done correctly – if the tests are not simple enough or not well organized.

To learn more about this class, follow this link.

This event took place in February 2011 in Bucharest and Cluj and was led by Joe Little.

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Motivation, Empowerment, Alignment

Competence, Structure, Improvement

When: May 17-18
Where: Bucharest, location to be announced
Early Bird Price: 850 € + VAT until April 28th  2011
Nominal Price: 950 € + VAT starting April 29th 2011

Agile management is an often overlooked part of Agile. There is much information available for agile developers, testers, and project managers, but very little for development managers and team leaders. However, when organizations adopt agile software development, not only developers, testers, and project managers need to learn new practices. Development managers and team leaders must also learn a new approach to leading and managing agile organizations.

Several studies indicate that “old-style” managers are the biggest obstacle in transitions to agile software development. Development managers and team leaders need to learn what their new role is in agile software development organizations. This course will help them.

Join Jurgen Appelo, the author of the book “Management 3.0″ on which this course is based, and find out what is the role of a manager in an agile organization.

Detailed description of the class: Agile Management

About Jurgen Appelo: a writer, speaker, trainer, entrepreneur, illustrator, developer, manager, blogger, reader, dreamer, leader, freethinker, and… Dutch guy.

This event took place in Cluj Napoca in October 18-19

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This event took place in September 17-18 2010 and was led by Alexandru Bolboaca

One person came all the way from Bucharest especially for this class.

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This class took place in September 29-30, 2010 in Bucharest and was led by Joe Little

Joe Little has a strong business experience, an MBA and co-teaches regularly with Jeff Sutherland.

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This event took place in July 2010.

One of Michel Goldenberg’s trainees was the first in the world to take the maximum grade at the Scrum Alliance online exam.

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