This is a two day Advanced Scrum Master class designed to support Scrum Masters in their professional development and attain PSM II accreditation. The PSM II course is intended for Scrum Masters with at least one year of experience who are looking to grow their knowledge and abilities as a Scrum Master.

Students will understand the stances that characterise an effective Scrum Master and servant-leader while diving deep into how they serve the Development Team, Product Owner and organization. The course also teaches students about related practices and skills to enable them to have the right types of conversations and how to apply them to become better Scrum Masters.

Over the 2 days, students will learn about areas critical to growing as a successful Scrum Master such as how the principles and values of Scrum help guide Scrum Masters in the decisions they make and how the Scrum Master can help change the environment of Scrum Teams, creating an environment for agility to thrive. The Scrum Master role is complex and often, a Scrum Master must be able to apply different stances in order to be effective, such as:

• The Scrum Master as a Teacher
• The Scrum Master as a Coach & Mentor
• The Scrum Master as a Facilitator
• The Scrum Master as a Change Agent

As a Scrum Master, being able to identify, and effectively apply, which stance would benefit your team the most depending on the situation or circumstance could prove to be the key to the success of your team.

As a Scrum Master, part of your role is to help management and other stakeholders across your organisation understand the benefits of Scrum and Agile. Therefore, it is imperative that you have the information and background that is needed to gain credibility in order to be an effective change agent. Throughout the class, your PST will provide stories, exercises, facilitation techniques (such as “Liberating Structures”), resources and more.

There will also be time in class for the Professional Scrum Trainer (PST) to provide coaching on challenges that you and your classmates may be experiencing today or may in the future.

A webinar featuring Tim Anderson (Group Commercial Director, NCC Group), Callum Sinclair (Head of Technology & Commercial, Burness Paull) and Rebecca Roberts (Senior Solicitor, Burness Paull).

Using real world examples, Tim, Rebecca and Callum will examine how organisations can and should be prepared at a business decision-making level to manage their responsibilities and liabilities, both technical and legal in nature.

The examples will demonstrate how this vital preparation can help manage a breach scenario when it occurs.

SSI is next-gen identity. In this webinar series, our SSI subject matter experts introduce self-sovereign patterns and protocols, and how you can get SSI going in your business. Each webinar will run for 40 minutes with 15 minutes for Q&A. We’ll make previous webinars available – so if you’ve missed one, don’t worry!

Our speakers :

• David Manning, Architect

• Richard Astley, Architect

• David Downs, Lead Software Engineer

We’re kicking off next year with one of our most anticipated events: Tech Trends 2021.

While this year’s session will be a little different, it promises to be as insightful and informative as ever.

Making predictions after a year like 2020 is rather daunting, however we can see the emergence of new trends, acceleration of old ones, and the slowing of others. Discover ten practical trends that you should be following if you work in technology. Ranging from the future of work to human centric security by way of the new desktop paradigm, this session will prepare you to lead in 2021.

Due to the circumstances following the pandemic, the event will be held virtually in the new year, and instead of three sessions in Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen, there will be one combined event.

Our favourite former Gartner analyst, Richard Marshall, will be back to lead this event, and a thank you to Pinsent Masons, DLA Piper and Burness Paull for returning to partner with us.

So pull up a chair with some pizza and beer and join us on Wednesday 20th January at 4pm for a front-row seat to the future.

Register:

You can book for Tech Trends 2021 by clicking “Learn More”.

The event is free for all ScotlandIS members, and a nominal fee of £10 will be charged for non-members, who will be contacted to make payment via PayPal after registering.

All proceeds from the non-member fee will be donated to the Digital Xtra Fund, an initiative to inspire the next generation to understand and create with technology by funding extracurricular computing and digital activities for young people.

If you are unable to use Zoom and you cannot register on the platform please email Nicole.Johnston@scotlandis.com to let us know. We will have a private stream available on a separate channel and will issue details accordingly. Non members will still be charged.

Professional Scrum Master (PSM) is a two-day scrum master course that covers the principles and (empirical) process theory underpinning the Scrum framework, and the role of the Scrum Master in it. This course is a combination of instruction and team-based exercises and teaches what is at the heart of the Scrum and Agile movement. The course also includes a free attempt at the globally recognised Professional Scrum Master I certification exam (PSM I), which if you successfully pass will accredit you with the title of Professional Scrum Master.

Over the two days, students will see why the Professional Scrum Master course is cutting-edge in scrum training, producing effective Scrum Masters, and suited for anyone coaching a team toward increased efficiency and effectiveness. The course includes advanced thinking for servant-leadership and behavioural shifts.

Throughout the course, students are challenged to think in terms of the Scrum principles to better understand what to do when returning to the workplace.

The PSM course is much more than just a set of slides and an instructor. In this course, students work on real-life cases with other classmates together as a team. This course is made up of discussions and hands-on exercises based upon real-life cases. Individuals who complete our scrum training will be able to take the Professional Scrum Master I certification exam (PSM I), which if they then successfully pass will accredit them with the title of Professional Scrum Master.

The progression from 2G to 4G cellular systems has been dominated by the delivery of mobile data … and then more mobile data. Plans for 5G extend the ‘more data’ theme, but also set expectations for greater reliability, lower latency and higher user capacity. So, in a world with no free lunches, how are these seemingly conflicting ambitions resolved?

This talk provides a brief introduction to cellular systems and the distinctive performance goals of the 5G system before setting out the ways in which 5G differs from its predecessors. This will include a look at both the network architecture and the ‘New Radio’ millimetre-wave air interface. The talk will conclude with a review of current deployment status, and predictions of what we can expect from 5G by when.

Steve Baker MEng CEng MIET works in TTP’s (The Technology Partnership, Melbourn) wireless comms group. He has spent 30 years in the wireless industry, developing technologies, products and businesses that have delivered test systems, radios, protocols stacks and application platforms for mobile phones.

Are you looking to start doing business internationally? How do you know which markets you should be targeting, and how to get the right insight to these markets?

What is the best way to approach selling overseas? Partnering locally may help with getting a foothold, but comes at a cost.

Come along to hear from people who can help. We will be joined by:

• Simul8 – a Glasgow based tech company who sell at home and abroad.
• Scottish Development International – Andrea Mcleish, International Senior Manager, will cover the support that they can provide.
• UK Government Department for International Trade – Rollo Hope, Head of Exports, Technology and Smart Cities, will highlight the support that available from DIT

This will be followed by Q&A where we will be encouraging dialogue and questions

Product Ownership goes beyond writing user stories or managing a product backlog. Product Owners need to have a solid understanding of how to drive the delivery of value.

Over 2 days, from early stakeholder engagement through to release planning and delivery, you will learn techniques to measure, maximise and deliver value to the marketplace. You will also work online with other participants on real-life cases with hands-on exercises.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

This cutting-edge course is targeted for Product Owners, Product Managers and anyone responsible for the success of a product or service in the market.

COURSE TOPICS

• Agile Product Management
• Value-Driven Development
• The Scrum Framework
• Managing Requirements, Products and Releases
• The Scrum Product Owner

Scotland’s Cluster Conference is back. Building on the launch event in January 2020,  celebrate the achievements from across the Scottish clusters in 2020 and focus on the opportunities coming in 2021 for the tech community.

Join us on 27th January for our annual joint cluster event when we will be partnering with Technology Scotland this year. We will highlight and discuss opportunities and insights from across the tech ecosystem with a specific focus on clusters – with guest speakers from both scottish and international tech clusters and from the cyber and data & AI sector.

Speakers including:

• Albert King, Chief Data Officer at The Scottish Government who will cover open data, digital identity and the outcomes of the Digital Strategy Consultation.
• Alison McLeod, Senior Programme Manager for Technology Scotland, has lead responsibility for the Photonics Scotland network which supports the £1.2 bn Scottish photonics sector. Alison will introduce the Photonics Cluster, discuss the Scottish photonics sector, how photonics is applicable and vital to a vast array of applications and key sectors for Scotland, from advanced manufacturing and healthcare to space and quantum technologies.
  
• Helen Hastie, Professor of Computer Science at Heriot-Watt University, Director of the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Robotic and Autonomous Systems at the Edinburgh Centre of Robotics, and Academic Lead for the National Robotarium, opening in 2022 in Edinburgh and  Eva Juul Langlands,Head of Communications at Odense Robotics, Denmark’s national cluster for robotics and drones. They will both cover the work that the Edinburgh Centre for Robotics and Danish Robotics Cluster do and highlight opportunities for international collaboration
• Dr Andrew Hamilton, Senior Research & Development Engineer Digital Team, Advanced Forming Research Centre at National Manufacturing Institute Scotland (NMIS).

Did you know that ScotlandIS are now a silver accredited cluster management organisation, currently the only one in Scotland?

The ‘great lockdown’ of 2020 is making the drive for process automation in 2021 inevitable. Forrester Research predicts that in 2021, digital transformation at more than 75% of enterprises will focus on automation and will have some form of sanctioned citizen development by the end of the year, while a larger percentage will be working on it. The pandemic has accelerated investment in business process automation, to improve customer experiences, reduce costs, eliminate paper and drive compliance.

Join FlowForma’s Product Strategist, Paul Stone and Andy Ross, Technical Lead at Appetite for Business on January 27, as they unveil their Top 4 Predictions for Process Automation in 2021 and share how automating processes can help navigate both employees and employers in 2021

2020 changed much in the world but what impact has that made to your business when you
are looking to attract talent?

Our industry was known for great offices, fun environments, regular fruit deliveries, pool
tables, games rooms and more – how do you now set your business apart from your
competitors when a beer fridge isn’t an option? Flexible and remote working used to be a
benefit, now it’s a reality that we all have to contend with.

Join our culture, HR and recruitment experts, including Nikola Kelly, MD of Be-IT, on 28th January to hear some of the ways your organisation can differentiate itself from the rest of the marketplace and recruit the talent that’s right for your business.