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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://mvasoftware.com/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Mike Vincent's Blog : Scrum, Scrum Developer</title><link>http://mvasoftware.com/blogs/mikev_weblog/archive/tags/Scrum/Scrum+Developer/default.aspx</link><description>Tags: Scrum, Scrum Developer</description><dc:language>en</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2008 (Build: 30417.1769)</generator><item><title>Professional Scrum Developer Training – June 21-25</title><link>http://mvasoftware.com/blogs/mikev_weblog/archive/2010/04/05/professional-scrum-developer-training-june-21-25.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 Apr 2010 00:32:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">2b809980-34b5-4f14-b248-bc4aff2867a2:205</guid><dc:creator>mikev</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://mvasoftware.com/blogs/mikev_weblog/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=205</wfw:commentRss><comments>http://mvasoftware.com/blogs/mikev_weblog/archive/2010/04/05/professional-scrum-developer-training-june-21-25.aspx#comments</comments><description>&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:&amp;#39;Tahoma&amp;#39;,&amp;#39;sans-serif&amp;#39;;color:#000000;"&gt;I will be presenting Accentient&amp;rsquo;s Professional Scrum Developer course June 21-25 at the Microsoft Technology Center, Irvine. CA. In cooperation with Microsoft, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a target="_blank" href="http://www.controlchaos.com"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:&amp;#39;Tahoma&amp;#39;,&amp;#39;sans-serif&amp;#39;;"&gt;Ken Schwaber&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:&amp;#39;Tahoma&amp;#39;,&amp;#39;sans-serif&amp;#39;;color:#000000;"&gt;, and &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a target="_blank" href="http://www.scrum.org"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:&amp;#39;Tahoma&amp;#39;,&amp;#39;sans-serif&amp;#39;;"&gt;Scrum.org&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:&amp;#39;Tahoma&amp;#39;,&amp;#39;sans-serif&amp;#39;;color:#000000;"&gt;, and other industry subject matter experts, Accentient has created the first-of-its-kind, Scrum Developer course. Along with the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a target="_blank" href="http://www.scrumalliance.org/pages/certified_scrummaster"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:&amp;#39;Tahoma&amp;#39;,&amp;#39;sans-serif&amp;#39;;"&gt;ScrumMaster&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:&amp;#39;Tahoma&amp;#39;,&amp;#39;sans-serif&amp;#39;;color:#000000;"&gt; and &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a target="_blank" href="http://www.scrumalliance.org/pages/certified_scrum_product_owner"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:&amp;#39;Tahoma&amp;#39;,&amp;#39;sans-serif&amp;#39;;"&gt;Product Owner&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:&amp;#39;Tahoma&amp;#39;,&amp;#39;sans-serif&amp;#39;;color:#000000;"&gt; programs that are available, the Scrum Developer course is intended for the third, and most important role in Scrum: the &lt;b&gt;Team&lt;/b&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Attendees will be taught how to use modern engineering practices to develop an increment of completed, potentially shippable functionality. They will do so within the Scrum process, working within self-organizing, cross-functional teams, doing iterative, incremental development. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:&amp;#39;Tahoma&amp;#39;,&amp;#39;sans-serif&amp;#39;;color:#000000;"&gt;&amp;quot;Scrum teams are expected to build functionality every iteration. Accentient&amp;#39;s Professional Scrum Developer course shows how to meet these demands using modern engineering practices and tools, optimizing everyone&amp;#39;s investment in development. Accentient&amp;#39;s courseware is an accelerant to Agile, Scrum, and the benefits of the software development profession.&amp;quot;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:&amp;#39;Tahoma&amp;#39;,&amp;#39;sans-serif&amp;#39;;color:#000000;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;-&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Ken Schwaber &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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