Sunday, February 05, 2012

Effective AGILE Development

Effective AGILE Development offers a complete array of Agile Training, Agile Coaching, Agile Assessments and Agile Facilitation to help your organization adopt and be more effective using an Agile Development Process.

Agile Coaching

Our Agile Coach Consultants have the experience and ability to deliver tangible coaching to your team. They are able to help your team find and identify the most efficient changes and improvements for improving the effectiveness and sustainability of your team and products. Click for more information about Agile Coaching from Effective AGILE Development.

Agile and Certified Scrum Training

Our complete suite of training available through our public schedule or on-site courses covers Scrum and Agile Methodologies, Certified ScrumMaster Training, Certifed Scrum Product Owner Training, Code Quality, Distributed Team Practices, Test Driven Development and Design Patterns. We also do training in the context of the popular agile tool frameworks including Visual Studio/Team Foundation Server, Version One and others. Click for more information about Agile Training from Effective AGILE Development.

Agile Product and Portfolio Management Consulting

Many organizations using Agile Software Development practices find that the development team out paces the Product Management Team. Agile practices need to be adopted by Product Management. This means faster and lower cost market research, more focused planning on the business capabilities planned for each release and using Innovation Games® to understand needs of customers.

Agile Project Management Tool Selection

Almost any organization needs some type of a system to help manage their Agile projects. Effective AGILE Development can assess your needs, suggest a solution and provide Agile team training in the context of the system selected. We offer training on Microsoft Visual Studio / Team Foundation Server and other platforms.

Agile Assessments

Effective AGILE Development can tailor an assessment to match your objectives. Whether you are new to Agile or want to take it to the next level, our Agile Coaches have the experience and skills to set your organization on the path to higher productivity. Click to learn more about Agile Assessments from Effective AGILE Development.

Agile Facilitation

Teams are made up of people and people have different backgrounds, experiences and expectations. These differences are what provides the power that drives the team. However, often times it is these empowering differences between people that can be a stumbling block to progress. Our Agile Coaches are able to help your organization overcome their differences and unleash the power of your team. An Agile Facilitation can help your team put the practices of Scrum and Agile to work. Click to learn more about what an Agile Facilitation can do for your team.

Event Schedule

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Effective AGILE Public Courses

Certified ScrumMaster Workshop Irvine CA - Feb 14-15

Certified ScrumMaster Workshop Portland OR - Feb 27-28

Certified ScrumMaster Workshop Bend OR - Mar 19-20

Certified ScrumMaster Workshop San Diego - May 17-18

Effective Agile Testing Seattle - Feb 29-March 2

Hands-On Software Quality & Design Patterns Workshop for Agile Development

Certified ScrumMaster Workshop Seattle - May 3-4

Certified ScrumMaster Workshop San Mateo / Foster City March 5-6

Certified ScrumMaster Workshop Denver TechCenter - March 26-27

Certified ScrumMaster Workshop Anchorage AK - April 26-27

Certified ScrumMaster Workshop Seattle - March 22-23

Certified ScrumMaster Workshop Phoenix - Mar 13-14

Certified ScrumMaster Workshop Albuquerque NM - April 17-18

Next Courses

Certified ScrumMaster Workshop

Irvine / Orange County, CA February 14-15, 2012

Courtyard Irvine John Wayne Airport

2701 Main Street

Irvine, CA 92614

Portland, OR February 27-28,2012

Courtyard Portland Downtown/Lloyd Center

435 NE Wassco Street

Portland, OR 97232

Course Objectives

Scrum Team Collaboration The teamwork and collaboration on a Scrum team
Agile Acceptance Testing The principles that help teams understand and deliver the right business value with a requirements by example ap-proach.
Test Driven Development Using the practice of Test First to help ensure the require-ments are well understood and automated tests can be added to the build process to validate the system in the future.
Refactoring The process of improving the design of software to increase the understandability and testability of the code and allow for easy and safe additions to the system in the future.
Automated Acceptance Testing The process of creating and running automated acceptance test suite using the appropriate tools and techniques for the application layer being built.

For more information, please check the course page on the RippleRock web site or feel free to contact me directly.

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Comments from Others

I took a course from Rod some time ago on scrum development. It was without a doubt one of the best courses I have ever taken. It combined a presentation format followed by a fantastic 2 day simulation. The simulation was very well designed and perfect for allowing me to internalize the concepts. Perhaps most importantly it demonstrated to me that the concepts really worked extremely well. Switching to agile development requires that you work in a different way and that you let go of past practices and make the leap across the chasm. This simulation allowed me to do that.

Also, other interactive activities helped us recap and review the concepts learn in a fun and engaging way.

I spent 9 years teaching college and several years doing corporate training. As such I really appreciate the challenges of course/content design and the brilliance of this course design and delivery. Rarely have I come across such a pedagogically well designed course. It was absolutely brilliance.

If you're trying to move to agile development methodologies and particularly if you have skeptics in your organization then I would highly recommend this course from Rod. It will make believers and practitioners out of them!

- Kelly Calvert Group Program Manager, Team Foundation Server, Microsoft

“Rod makes learning fun. I recently took the Certified Scrum Master class taught by Rod. Keeping technology professionals engaged for 3 days straight has its merits. Rod’s style made time fly by and left the students wanting more. Rod is a trainer I would seek out for future Agile-Lean Development courses.” March 17, 2009
Chris Dederer

“I can safely say this is the best class I’ve taken. It was worth every penny and I will be able to immediately begin using the principles and practices in my job.” CF from Douglass County CO

“Rod was the consummate professional, and I can also say that it is unanimous among my team that he was the best teacher that any of us has ever come across in dealing with software and computers.” January 9, 1998 Allan Shoemaker, DVP of Visual Merchandising, The Bon*Ton

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