Agile Scrum Foundation
Course Length: 2 days
DESCRIPTION
The objective of the course is to provide students with the necessary knowledge and skills to manage projects using the Scrum approach and techniques. Scrum is a framework designed to dramatically speed up a project’s software delivery cycle without losing solution quality. According to Scrum.org, it is lightweight and simple to understand, but difficult to master.
This course not only teaches Scrum concepts but uses workshops, games, and hands-on exercises to reinforce each principle through application. Students stay engaged and enthusiastic while they learn the concepts and how to apply them to create effective development teams. Leave this course with an understanding of a new way of working that involves Scrum and its application on a day-to-day basis.
TARGET AUDIENCE
This course is designed for project managers, business analysts and developers who work on agile teams and wish to introduce themselves to the new management methodologies for their projects.
PREREQUISITES
Anyone is welcome to attend this course regardless of their skillsets or experience with Scrum. However, it is not recommended for Advanced Scrum practitioners.
COURSE OUTLINE
INTRODUCTION
- Welcome
- Course objectives
AGILE
- Paradigm shift
- Agile Manifesto
- Iterative and incremental
- Agile techniques
SCRUM
- Roles and responsibilities
- Sprint planning, daily meeting, review and retro
- Product backlog, spring backlog and product increments
AGILE PROJECTS, PROGRAMS, PORTFOLIOS
- Agile product lifecycle
- Agile project life cycle
- Scaling agile at the program and portfolio levels
VALUE BASED DELIVERY
- Early delivery of business value
- Inception, vision, roadmap and release plan
- Epics, features, user stories for your backlog
- User story maps, personas and customer journeys
- Agile estimate techniques vs #noestimates
- Kano, MoSCow, WSFJ and other prioritization techniques
- Creating an MVP
- Metrics
CLOSING
- Next steps on your agile journey
- Course retrospective