Agile Practices That Matter - Workshop by Simon Reindl, Mike Vincent, & Daniel Tobler
This pre-conference workshop (additional registration required) provides a full day covering Agile Practices in Scrum by industry experts Simon Reindl, Mike Vincent, and Daniel Tobler from Scrum.org.| Who should attend | As a software development leader, you want to know more about Scrum and learn how it can be implemented to coexist with ALM, so that you can better manage the quality, risks, and predictability of your team’s software development project. This workshop is also very interesting for any Scrum Team members and those that want to explore the power of Scrum and Agility. |
Workshop Abstract
Do you want to experience Scrum enriched with agile practices within a self-organizing Scrum Team? Yes! Then join this practical and interactive workshop. It gives you practical advice how to work efficiently in a Scrum Team and you will practice useful practices within Sprints and group work.Attendees should bring a laptop for group work. This workshop brings the highlights of the official Scrum.org Professional Scrum Foundations and Professional Scrum Developer trainings and is a great way for anyone to learn what Scrum is by experiencing it in a classroom environment.
Workshop Outline
This workshop covers:- Attending a fully features Sprint doing programming work
- Product Backlog refinement, continuous requirements engineering
- Measuring progress with Burnups and Cumulative Flows
- Pair programming and code reading
- Measuring quality and technical debt
- Definition of Done on multiple levels
- Different levels of test automation, like unit tests and acceptance tests
- Emergent architecture
About the Presenters
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Simon Reindl is a Scrum Developer Trainer based in the UK, who has been delivering training and coaching since 1999. He has been working with Scrum, Agile Development and Visual Studio Team System since 2005. Simon’s focus is in helping businesses delight their customers and development teams deliver the best quality code that they can. |
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Mike Vincent is a veteran software entrepreneur and solutions architect based in Orange County, California. He currently provides clients throughout North America with application lifecycle management training, consultation and Scrum coaching primarily focusing on Microsoft .NET technology. He has been in the software business for over 25 years in addition to marketing management, project management and engineering positions. Actively involved in the user group community since the early 90's, Mike is a past Vice President and Treasurer of INETA Noram. He is a frequent presenter at developer events including Microsoft TechEd and PDC. He is a Visual Studio Application Lifecycle Management MVP, Professional Scrum Product Owner, and Professional Scrum Developer Trainer. |
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Daniel Tobler is a developer for embedded area programming in C/C++, Java, and C# .NET. He has been working as developer, project manager, agile tester, architect, coach, and Scrum Master in various projects. Scrum is on his list since 2000 where he used a similar method to complete a death march project. Beside Scrum he has expertise in RUP, Kanban, iterative development and XP. Daniel works as principal consultant for Zühlke Engineering AG in Switzerland. In addition to his activities at Scrum.org, he codes, coaches companies on testing, and lectures about OO-Design and Scrum at Swiss Universities. |
