MPS | 1 Day
Deliver software effectively using Scrum, while minimizing waste and fostering an agile mindset. This one-day course builds your fluency with the Scrum framework, from its accountabilities, events, and artifacts to running a Sprint end to end and adopting Scrum in a real organization. You’ll work in teams on a shared case study, putting each practice to use the way a real Scrum Team would.
Who should take this course?
This course is for Product Owners, Scrum Masters, developers, testers, and team leaders who want to improve how their software is delivered, plus the managers and business analysts who support them. It’s equally valuable for both technical and non-technical professionals. No prior agile experience is required, though a project management or software development background helps; attendees should review the latest Scrum Guide beforehand.
Course Content
This course progressively builds your fluency with Scrum, from the framework’s accountabilities, events, and artifacts to refining a backlog and running a Sprint, and on to adopting Scrum across an organization. You’ll work hands-on in teams on a shared case study, the way a real Scrum Team would.
1. The Scrum Framework
- The Agile Manifesto and Scrum
- Empiricism: transparency, inspection, adaptation
- Scrum accountabilities
- Scrum events
- Scrum artifacts and commitments
- Complementary practices
2. Scrum in Action
- Refining the Product Backlog
- The user story format
- Agile estimation
- Sprint Planning and the Sprint Goal
- The Daily Scrum and executing daily work
- Sprint Review
- Sprint Retrospective
3. Adopting Scrum
- High-level steps to adopt Scrum
- Good reasons vs. bad reasons to adopt Scrum
- Changing organizational culture
- The role of management in a Scrum adoption
- Common issues and adoption blockers
- Definition of Done vs. undone work
- Recognizing and addressing team dysfunctions
- Dysfunctional behavior case studies
- Attributes of a Professional Scrum Team