Workshops

Workshops will be posted quarterly, but don’t let that stop your learning! Feel free to contact Robin Surland to set up custom training for your team. To enroll in the workshops below, just sign-up here!

Agile

Agile Metrics and Reporting

Burndown charts, velocity, cadence, work in queue, what does it all mean? Find out in the beginning agile metrics and reporting class.

  • 3/6/18 11:30 – 1:30 (Open Enrollment)
  • 11/17/17 1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. (Open Enrollment)

Agile User Story Workshop

User Stories helps us manage requirements. Their primary job is to define the value a user gains from the product. Learn the foundations of user stories here.

  • 2/19/18 10:00 – 12:00 (Open Enrollment)
  • 12/5/17 1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. (Open Enrollment)

Agile Retrospectives

The drive to inspect and adapt is one of the most important aspects of agile. Learn how to engage and challenge your team to solve their own problems and make things better.

  • 2/6/18 12:00 – 2:00 (Open Enrollment)

Lunch & Learn: Don’t Go Chasing Waterfalls

  • 2/20/18  12:00 – 1:00 (Open Enrollment)

Scrum

Product Ownership Introduction

If you own the product or service your team is working on, you are the product owner. Learn how to work with your agile team to deliver the most value possible.

  • 1/9/18  2:00 – 4:00 (DE & WS)

Scrum Foundations

Scrum Foundations provides the foundational knowledge needed to work with Scrum in a highly practical way. The course is a combination of instruction and team-based exercises where students experience how the Scrum framework improves product development efforts.

  • 2/26/18  9:00 – 12:00 (Part 1) & 3/1/18  12:00 – 3:00 (Part 2) (Open Enrollment)
  • 10/6/17 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m (ODEE)
  • 9/28/17 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. (Open Enrollment)

Scrum Estimation and Simulation Lab

Learning by doing, and failing. Do not underestimate any Story… it may cost you a lot! This hands-on simulation brings you right to the point: You will experience what it means to be part of an agile team.

  • 1/11/18  9:00 – 11:00 (Enterprise Project)
  • 1/18/18  11:00 – 1:00 (Open Enrollment)
  • 1/29/18  1:00 – 3:00 (LSI)
  • 10/20/17   12:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. (Open Enrollment)
  • 10/20/17  8:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. (Open Enrollment)

Scrum in Jira

  • 11/8/17  9:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. (Open Enrollment)

Jira

Jira Dashboards for Everyone

Jira allows any user to create a dashboard which can then be shared with anyone at OSU, or kept private for your own use. A dashboard is a great way to create shortcuts, display saved filters, and compile cross project data walls.

  • 10/10/17  12:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. (Open Enrollment)

Scrum in Jira

Jira has special tools to help you implement agile project management and scrum. In this class you will learn different ways to manage your backlog, rank issues, add estimates to issues, and create, manage, and close sprints.

  • 11/8/17  9:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. (Open Enrollment)

Mastering Jira Boards

Jira boards are what lets you take random piles of issues and organize them, prioritize them, color code them, and display them in meaningful ways for you and your team as they travel through your workflow. You will be introduced to Jira Query Language (JQL) in this workshop.

  • 10/23/17  10:00 a.m. 12:00 p.m. (Open Enrollment)

Sign-Up

Please use this Google Sheet to sign up for one of the above workshops. Questions or just want to talk agile? Drop Robin Surland an email.