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DabaweGNU

is a non-stock, non-profit organization registered with the Philippine Securities and Exchange Commission on December 5, 2003. Its primary aim is to provide its members a venue for technical growth in "Free/Open Source Software" (FOSS) technologies and to advocate the use of this technology to the rest of the community.

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March 3rd, 5:12pm 3 comments

Scrum Training starts today | Hey DabaweGNU has a posterous blog!

Here are the preliminary photos of the Scrum Training. More photos to come, so stay tuned!

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March 4-6, 2010
8:30 AM - 5:30 PM
DabaweGNU Laboratory

About Scrum

Scrum is an agile process for software development. With Scrum, projects progress via a series of iterations called sprints. Each sprint is typically 2-4 weeks long. Scrum is ideally suited for projects with rapidly changing or highly emergent requirements.

Trainer: Ms. Nelanie Luth Nimis

Nelanie has over 14 years experience in the IT industry as a developer and project manager  (using C, C++, MFC, and JAVA).  She has over 2 years experience as a SCRUM practitioner working at an international software development company based in Cebu City.

Training Outline:

Day 1: Intro to SCRUM and SCRUM Concepts

  • The Agile Manifesto
  • What is SCRUM?
  • The SCRUM Framework
  • SCRUM Artifacts (Product and Sprint Backlogs, Release and Sprint Burndown Charts)
  • SCRUM Roles ( Product Owner, SCRUMMaster, SCRUM Team)
  • Time Boxes ( Release Planning, Sprint Planning, Sprint, Sprint Review, Retrospective, the Daily SCRUM)

Day 2: Agile Planning and Estimation

  • Agile Approach to Projects
  • Agile Roles
  • User Stories
  • User Story Points
  • Velocity
  • Prioritizing (User Story) Themes
  • Agile Planning
  • Steps in Planning a Release
  • Estimating Velocity
  • Tracking Progress: The Release Plan
  • Tracking Progress: The Iteration Plan
  • Communicating the Plan and Progress

Day 3: Workshop - Groups work on simulating agile planning, estimation with SCRUM

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