TFS Professional Scrum Developer Course (PSD)

• Massively increase your output of work
• Use VS + TFS 2013 effectively with Scrum
• Become "Scrum certified"
• The *only* Microsoft approved course

Scrum Training

This Professional Scrum Developer (PSD) course is a unique and intensive five-day experience for software developers. The course guides teams on how to turn product requirements into potentially shippable increments of software using the Scrum framework, Visual Studio 2013, and modern software engineering practices. Attendees will work in self-organizing, self-managing teams using a common instance of Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2013 to achieve this goal.

Audience

This course is suitable for any member of a software development team - architect, programmer, database developer, tester, etc. Entire teams are encouraged to attend and experience the course together, but individuals are welcome too. Attendees will self-organize to form cross-functional Scrum teams. These teams require an aggregate of skills specific to the selected case study. Please see the last page of this document for specific details. Product Owners, ScrumMasters, and other stakeholders are welcome too, but keep in mind that everyone who attends will be expected to commit to work and pull their weight on a Scrum team.

What should you know by the end of the course?

Scrum will be experienced through a combination of lecture, demonstration, discussion, and hands-on exercises. Attendees will learn how to do Scrum correctly while being coached and critiqued by the instructor, in the following topic areas:

• Form effective teams
• Explore and understand legacy "Brownfield" architecture
• Define quality attributes, acceptance criteria, and "done"
• Create automated builds
• How to handle software hotfixes
• Verify that bugs are identified and eliminated
• Plan releases and sprints
• Estimate product backlog items
• Create and manage a sprint backlog
• Hold an effective sprint review
• Improve your process by using retrospectives
• Use emergent architecture to avoid technical debt
• Use Test Driven Development as a design tool
• Setup and leverage continuous integration
• Use Test Impact Analysis to decrease testing times
• Manage SQL Server development in an Agile way
• Use .NET and T-SQL refactoring effectively
• Build, deploy, and test SQL Server databases
• Create and manage test plans and cases
• Create, run, record, and play back manual tests
• Setup a branching strategy and branch code
• Write more maintainable code
• Identify and eliminate people and process dysfunctions
• Inspect and improve your team's software development process

What does the week look like?

This course is a mix of lecture, demonstration, group discussion, simulation, and hands-on software development. The bulk of the course will be spent working as a team on a case study application delivering increments of new functionality in mini-sprints. Here is the week at a glance:

Monday morning and most of the day Friday will be spent with the computers powered off, so you can focus on sharpening your game of Scrum and avoiding the common pitfalls when implementing it.

What will be expected of you?

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

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

All teams should have these skills:

• Understanding of Scrum
• Familiarity with Visual Studio
• C#, .NET 4.0 & ASP.NET 4.0 experience*
• SQL Server 2008 development experience
• Software testing experience

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

Self-organizing teams

Another unique attribute of this course is that it's a technical training class being delivered to teams of developers, not pairs, and not individuals. Ideally, your actual software development team will attend the training to ensure that all necessary skills are covered. However, if you wish to attend an open enrolment course alone or with just a couple of colleagues, realize that you may be placed on a team with other attendees. The instructor will do his or her best to ensure that each team is cross-functional to tackle the case study, but there are no guarantees. You may be required to try a new role, learn a new skill, or pair with somebody unfamiliar to you. This is just good Scrum!

Who should NOT take this course?

Because of the nature of this course, as explained above, certain types of people should probably not attend this course:

• Students requiring command and control style instruction - there are no prescriptive/step-by-step (think traditional Microsoft Learning) labs in this course
• Students who are unwilling to work within a timebox
• Students who are unwilling to work collaboratively on a team
• Students who don't have any skill in any of the software development disciplines
• Students who are unable to commit fully to their team - not only will this diminish the student's learning experience, but it will also impact their team's learning experience

Location Details

Course Materials

• Course Syllabus
• Scrum Guide

What You Need To Bring

• A laptop (4GB of RAM, Windows XP or higher, 20GB of free disk space)
• A mouse
• If you do not have access to a laptop you can use for the course you can rent one from SSW for $75 a day. Please contact sales on +61 2 9953 3000 to arrange this.

Related Links

• SSW's Rules to Better Scrum with TFS
• Accentient Scrum Developer Training
• Microsoft - Professional Scrum Developer Program
• Scrum.org
• Book a SSW Scrum Master for your project
• SSW 8 Steps to Scrum PDF

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