Course Environment - Workshop Style1

Maximum Participants

35

Contact Information

Craig Larman, craig@craiglarman.com. +1 214 914 7593

Course Notes and Text

• There is a course PDF for the presentations. We may decide to give the students a file copy to view on a laptop or a paper copy, depending on situation.

• Students are required to read Agile Project Management with Scrum by Ken Schwaber before the course.

• another useful read is The Scrum Primer

Room, Walls, Whiteboards

• People will be organized into table-teams, averaging 5 or 6 people per team. Thus, we need NumStudents/5 tables; e.g., 6 or 7 tables if 35 students. The tables are ideally in separate islands, circular or square, with a team at each.

• Don’t make it a crowded room; there are a number of exercises that involve the teams moving around.

• There are several wall exercises, involving flip chart paper or PostIt Note layouts; each team needs some unencumbered clear wall space for this.

Projectors, Screens, and Relating Coaching Displays

• 1 computer projector.

• 1 white projector screen at the front of the room (for the computer and overhead projector).

• 2 flipcharts, on stands

• 1 whiteboard (e.g., on wheels) at the front of the room

Table Layout

• Round tables are ideal

• Tables should not be against the walls; we are using the walls as a main working area in this course.

• Distribute the tables throughout the room

• A "teacher table" near the front, for placing the projectors and coach laptop.

Computers, Software and Networking

• There are a few short exercises on spreadsheets. These are team exercises (average 5 persons per team). Thus, at least one computer is required for each team; two is nicer. Therefore, ask people to bring a laptop if they have one.

• A power supply will be useful for each table, though in the worst case, students can recharge batteries at powerstrips by walls. Please ensure there are some powerstrips “somewhere”.

• No network is required.

Other Supplies

• flip chart paper for student exercises
• masking tape (to hold up flip chart paper)
• 7 packages of typical 3-5 inch Post-It notes
• lots of black whiteboard marker pens
• 1 package of regular 8.5x11 paper
• scissors

Picture of Classroom Setup

• TO DO