Develop eXtreme Manufacturing class and curriculum

A project in Lynnwood, WA by Joe Justice
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Create hands-on classroom experience for Agile / Scrum Design and Manufacturing, build a car with WIKISPEED at their Seattle HQ
Backers: 39
Average Pledge Per Backer: $414

Funded: $16,127 of $10,000
Dates: Feb 27th -> Apr 27th (59 days)
Project By: Joe Justice
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Latest News

It's the final countdown!

April 22nd - via: kickstarter.com
We're really excited to be working on the last of the prep for the XM course May 1-2.  The curriculum was finalized last week so this sprint's focus will be on iterating the deck and ordering food and supplies.  We're especially jazzed about the... (Read More)

Tweet your company logo to @ScrumInc, get it on the car!

April 16th - via: kickstarter.com
Folks, if you supported this project with more than $20, we’d like to add a bonus. We’re going to automatically give you the perk of putting your logo or picture on the car we’ll be building. Folks, even if you did not support the project, we... (Read More)

Amazing, we are already $4,000 passed our goal! YOU GUYS ARE AWESOME.

April 16th - via: kickstarter.com
I’m absolutely blown away by the level of interest in this class. $14,000+ funded already- my dream of teaching an eXtreme Manufacturing class, with all the Scrum content covered in hands on exercises in the shop, is happening. Absolutely awesome.... (Read More)

Why our kickstarter didn't sell out in 1 day

March 15th - via: kickstarter.com
Before this Scrum Hands On class launched, we’d been asked by several major companies to figure out how to offer a class exactly like this, to train their hardware directors and teams plus jumpstart their Agile software teams. In fact, a few just... (Read More)

We are halfway to our goal! 5 registrants, 10 backers!

March 13th - via: kickstarter.com
With our first class registrant flying in from Belgium to take the class, and now 4 more flying in from Detroit, and with 45 days to go to fund this project, things are looking awesome. Are Burn Up Chart shows that if this pace of funding is... (Read More)

We've added a new Reward: $20 gets the photo you choose on the car we build during this class!

March 11th - via: kickstarter.com
We’re plastering the carbon fiber body of the car with YOUR logos, and YOUR pictures, and YOUR messages! We’ve split the total surface area of the car, well the most visible parts, into 1040 squares. They are 4”x4” each. For each of these... (Read More)

Updated Kickstarter promo video with improved sound!

February 28th - via: kickstarter.com
James Kies put an audio filter from Camtasia, and the audio quality is vastly improved. If you haven't played the Kickstarter project summary and hero video since before this update, play it again and listen to much smoother sound! Also, coming soon,... (Read More)

Draft course slide deck done!

February 28th - via: kickstarter.com
Whew! Pulling from the Certified Scrum Master slide deck, and a little bit from the Certified Product Owner slide deck, and combining it with the course materials for our hands on eXtreme Manufacturing Build Parties, we now have a draft slide deck... (Read More)

Sprint one- updating video audo, building the class backlog

February 28th - via: kickstarter.com
We are updating the embedded video to have cleaner audio, with less background hiss. Further down in the backlog we have a story to shoot a whole new video and tweet it around from @WIKISPEED. I've got a story in this sprint's backlog to stub out the... (Read More)

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