SCRUM Training: SCRUM Fundamentals

The course Practical Strategies for Agile Success (SCRUM Training) is a complete study of SCRUM. The training includes building and maintaining a Product Backlog, writing great user stories, managing stakeholders, planning and executing a sprint and performing a sprint review and a sprint retrospective.

The course covers essential techniques such as monitoring technical debt, making use of sprint and product burndown charts, and performing Product Backlog grooming to name a few. This SCRUM course covers everything that you need to know to run a SCRUM project.

Course Outline

Introduction

• Traditional vs. Agile Project Management

• Traditional vs. Agile Development

• The Nature of Requirements

• A Process-Approach

What is Scrum?

• Scrum Values, Theory and Framework

• Scrum Team Roles and Responsibilities

• Scrum Events (Process)

• Scrum Artifacts

Welcome to the Scrum Team

• Who’s in, Who’s out?

• Product Owner

• Scrum Master

• Development Team

• Building a High-Functioning Team

• Identifying and Managing Stakeholders

• Cautions

Understanding Scrum Events

• Why Process Matters

• Timeboxing the Sprint

• Sprint Planning – setting a goals, choosing work

• Sprint – getting the work done

• Sprint Review – demonstrating the work

• Sprint Retrospective – time for the team

• Cautions

Understanding Scrum Artifacts

• Potentially Shippable Product Increment (PSPI)

• Daily Scrum

• Product Backlog

• Sprint Backlog

• Definition of Done

Building and Managing the Product Backlog

• It Starts with the Stakeholders

• Vision Boards

• Product Roadmaps

• Understanding the MMP/MVP

• Attributes of the Product Backlog

• Creating Product Backlog Items (PBIs)

• Understanding User Stories

• Techniques for Estimating Effort (PBI Size)

• Ordering and Prioritizing the Product Backlog

• Release Planning and Burndown Charts

• Product Backlog Rules

Building and Managing the Sprint Backlog

• It Starts with a Sprint Goal

• Choosing Sprintable PBIs

• Clarifying Acceptance Criteria

• Estimating Sprint Velocity

• Scrum Boards and Burndown Charts

• Focus on Delivering PSPI

Adopting and Supporting Scrum

• Organizational Issues

• Teamwork and Team Skills: Communication, Collaboration and Problem Solving

• How to Introduce Scrum: Identifying the Project Champion

• Managing a Scrum Adoption and Expectations

• Optimizing Scrum: Managing Change and Improvements

• Scrum Anti-Patterns