S4S | Full day
Learn how to engage with a Scrum Team and get the most from your stake in the product. This course gives stakeholders a clear view of what Scrum is, why it works, and how their own role changes, from interacting with the team and shaping the Product Backlog to participating in events and judging success in new ways. You’ll work in teams on activities throughout, experiencing these ideas firsthand rather than just hearing about them.
Who should take this course?
This course is for anyone affected by the outcome of product development: users, customers, managers, sponsors, business analysts, subject matter experts, help desk, operations and support, project managers, and auditors. It’s equally valuable whether your organization is just considering Scrum or already well into adopting it. No prior Scrum experience is required.
Course Content
This course progressively builds your fluency with Scrum from a stakeholder’s vantage point, from what Scrum is and why it works to interacting with the team, the Product Backlog, the events, and new measures of success. Each topic includes slides, discussion, and team-based activities.
1. What is Scrum
- Scrum overview
- Scrum values
- Scrum framework: accountabilities, events, artifacts
2. Why Scrum
- Agile over waterfall
- Problems with targets: scope, schedule, cost
- Economic advantages of Scrum
3. Myths and Misconceptions
- Requirements, documentation, analysis, and planning
- Managers, successful organizations, and culture
- Roles, PMO, and self-managing teams
4. Interacting with the Scrum Team
- Interacting with the Product Owner
- Interacting with the Developers
- Interacting with the Scrum Master
5. The Product Backlog
- Purpose of the Product Backlog
- Definition of “Ready”
- Capturing Stakeholder feedback
6. Participating in the Scrum Events
- Participating in Sprint Planning
- Participating in Product Backlog Refinement
- Participating in Sprint Review
7. New Ways of Measuring Success
- Direct evidence over indirect/subjective evidence
- Organizational metrics and foundational metrics
- Value, time to market, and ability to innovate
8. Roadmap
- Summary of what will be different going forward
- A Shu-Ha-Ri approach to implementing change
- A culture of continuous learning and improvement