Scrum – an Agile framework for developing and sustaining complex products – continues to grow in popularity and acceptance. Scrum originally was formalized for software development projects, but it works well for any complex, innovative scope of work. The possibilities are endless. Today more and more ICT companies in Vietnam are applying Agile, Scrum in software development & testing.
As an early bird of Vietnamese IT Community in adopting Scrum and in the partnership with tens of universities in HCM city, Da Nang and Can Tho, Axon Active Vietnam has been hosting a lot of free “Agile software development with Scrum” courses for IT students, especially last-year ones. Since the first course hosted at Da Nang University of Technology in 2011, Axon Active Vietnam has opened over 40 Scrum Courses at 10 universities for more than 1,600 IT students.
This 5 days course is organized in English: 3 first days for learning theory & exercises, 2 last days for doing a real project. The interactive training approach helps student not only easily get knowledge foundation, tools and best practices of Scrum but also improve teamwork and English skills. After this course, the students can have a confidence to join and work easily within Scrum team. And the course certificate is also given.
The courses covers Scrum fundamental topics:
Scrum overview & history
Scrum vs. Waterfall
Self-management
Scrum values
The Team
Scrum Master
Product Owner & Product Backlog
Sprint planning & Sprint Backlog
Scrum meetings, daily stand-up
Retrospective
Impediments
Definition of Done
Technical practices
Planning Poker
Agile Manifesto
Scaling Scrum
Continuous improvement
The trainers of these courses are experts from Axon Active Vietnam:
Sebastian Sussmann (Sebi) – CIO
Hai Dang – Da Nang Branch Manager
Long Nguyen – HCM Branch Manager
Thang Nguyen – Head of Department
Huy Nguyen – HCM Education Manager
Here are the list universities had the Scrum courses:
No. | Universities | Location |
1 | University of Science Ho Chi Minh City | HCM city |
2 | University of Information Technology | HCM city |
3 | Ho Chi Minh City University Of Technology | HCM city |
4 | University of Economic and Law | HCM city |
5 | Posts And Telecommunications Institute Of Technology | HCM city |
6 | Da Nang University of Technology | Da Nang |
7 | University Of Education | Da Nang |
8 | Duy Tan University | Da Nang |
9 | Passerelles numériques (Scrum Workshop) | Da Nang |
10 | Can Tho University | Can Tho |
We have been motivated a lot by enthusiast students, by their learning attitudes & feedback:
“I’ve already learned about Scrum model, the team work, pair programming, working spirit and responsibility. This course is very useful for me. Thanks you very much!”
“The games are very funny and we can easy learn through it.”
“I most enjoyed the way that our Trainer – Mr. Sebi – taught us. He use simple things and small games to demonstrate the difficult things. I think it’s really cool and it’s a good teaching method. It helps me understand more clearly about Scrum. Many thanks for him.”
“I learned a lot of about teamwork and how to communicate with teammates.”
“In practice this course helped me learn a lot of things that I have no experience before”
“I like those exercises and I think it’s very usefully to my future work.”
