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Press release: Advanced Product Delivery launches ground-breaking Scrum courses

Advanced Product Delivery launches ground-breaking courses worldwide, providing businesses with essential tools

Advanced Product Delivery (APD), is launching a series of Scrum courses in London, United States and the Netherlands to help businesses improve the way they build and present their products and services.

The courses will help delegates avoid the pitfalls that derail an alarming number of projects at businesses across the world.

A recent IBM study revealed that only 40 per cent of projects meet their schedule, budget, and quality goals. Another study, by McKinsey & Co in conjunction with the University of Oxford, found that, on average, large IT projects run 45 per cent over budget and 7 per cent over time yet still fall 56 per cent below their value expectations. And 17 per cent of large IT projects fail so badly, they threaten the existence of the company.

VersionOne’s 10th annual State of Agile report said that scaling Scrum is the most effective and popular Agile methodologies used.

APD’s courses include:

Professional Scrum Master

The Scrum.org Professional Scrum Master (PSM) training course covers the fundamentals of Scrum, comprising the framework, mechanics, and roles of Scrum. This course takes place on:

Monday 16 & Tuesday 17 May 2016, London

Monday 13 & Tuesday 14 June 2016, Boston, United States             

Thursday 10 & Friday 11 November 2016, London

Thursday 8 & Friday 9 December 2016, London

Thursday 2 & Friday 3 February 2017, London

Professional Scrum Product Owner

The Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPO) course will show you how to maximize value through software products and systems. Agile Product Ownership today requires more than the ability to write a user story or manage a product backlog. The PSPO course builds the necessary understanding – from early stakeholder management to release planning and delivery. Dates for this course are:

Thursday 23 & Friday 24 June 2016, London

Monday 12 & Tuesday 13 September 2016, London

Monday 7 & Tuesday 8 November 2016, London

Monday 16 & Tuesday 17 January 2017, London

Scaled Professional Scrum

In the Scaled Professional Scrum (SPS) Workshop, you’ll simulate a large software development project using the Nexus Framework. Through this hands-on case study, you’ll learn over 40 practices that reduce complexity and dependencies at scale. You’ll leave knowing how to scale Scrum to make an integrated increment in every sprint. This course takes place on:

Monday 18 & Tuesday 19 July 2016, London

Monday 26 & Tuesday 27 January 2016, London

Monday 12 & Tuesday 13 December 2016, London

Monday 27 & Tuesday 28 February 2017, London

Professional Scrum Developer (.NET)

The three-day Professional Scrum Developer (PSD) .NET training takes you deep into professional .NET software development and team, process and tool management. Working with real life exercises, you’ll experience how the Scrum process– and optimum use of the tools – creates a high performance team. This course takes place on

Tuesday 27, Wednesday 28 & Thursday 29 September 2016, Den Haag, Netherlands

APD helps individuals, teams and organisations across the UK. The business uses the Scrum.org, custom courses and bespoke Visual Studio training to help clients focus on value.

Simon is fully qualified to lead the full range of Professional Scrum Training courses and coach people at all levels in technical and managerial roles. An experienced coach, trainer, speaker and technologist, he has 18 years’ experience in helping organisations in the private and public sectors adopt new technology and add value to their offerings. Simon od one of the two stewards selected by Ken Schwaber, co-creator of Scrum, and Scrum.org, the providers of Professional Scrum assessments and training, to facilitate the PSM courseware.

For further information, visit www.advancedproductdelivery.com.

For media enquiries, please contact Emma De Maio, redheadPR, 07921 160 134, emma@redheadpr.co.uk.

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Editors’ note

Scrum is a management and control process that cuts through complexity to focus on building software that meets business needs. It enables management iteratively and teams to assess requirements and technologies and deliver working software, incrementally and empirically. Scrum is a simple framework for effective team collaboration on complex projects and products.