SSW Professional Scrum Developer - 3 Day Training Course

Massively increase your output of work
Use Team Foundation Service effectively with Scrum
Become "Scrum certified"
The only Microsoft approved course

This Professional Scrum Developer (PSD) course is a unique and intensive three 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 2017, and modern software engineering practices. Attendees will work in self-organizing, self-managing teams using a common instance of Azure DevOps to achieve this goal.

New to Scrum?

The 3 day course is aimed at people who already have a basic understanding of scrum, if you don't, check out our 5 day course which includes all the basic scrumdementals.

Course Objectives

Course attendees will learn to:

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 existence and elimination of bugs
Plan releases and sprints
Estimate product backlog items
Create and manage a sprint backlog
Hold an effective sprint review
Improve your process by using Sprit 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
Use refactoring practices effectively
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

Audience

This course is suitable for any member of a software development team:

architect
programmer
database developer
tester
Product Owners, Scrum Masters, and other stakeholders are welcome too. Keep in mind that everyone who attends will be expected to commit to work and pull their weight on the team.

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:

A good working understanding of Scrum (from experience or a Professional Scrum Foundations course)
Familiarity with Visual Studio
C#, .NET 4.0 & ASP.NET 4.0 experience*
Software testing experience

Check with the instructor ahead of time for the exact technologies

Course Bookings

If you'd like to have this course run for your company, and have a minimum of 5 people, please call 02 9953 3000 or email info@ssw.com.au to schedule a course.