SCRUM Essentials Workshop

"SCRUM Training: discover SCRUM techniques and best practices that can easily be reused and integrated within a broad range of mission critical projects."

Agile Software Project Management

The SCRUM training extends the capabilities of our enterprise development teams through greater understanding and methodological deployment of agile techniques. Leading a Scrum team is radically different than traditional project management. Rather than plan, instruct, and direct, the leader of a Scrum team (called a Scrum Master) facilitates, coaches, and leads.

Workshop Description

• Plan, initiate, and lead a Scrum project
• Establish a shared vision for the entire team
• Generate an agile release plan utilizing user stories and story points
• Lead your Scrum team through planning, review, and retrospective sessions
• Create an environment in which self-managing teams can flourish
• Identify, enroll, and engage business stakeholders in your project

What you will learn :

Overview of Scrum

• Why Scrum works
• What Scrum is
• Origins

Sprints

• Potentially shippable
• Architecture on a Scrum project
• Sequential vs. overlapping work
• Sprint length
• Release sprints
• Abnormal terminations

The Scrum Master

• Responsibilities
• Scrum Master mindset
• Situational Scrum Mastering
• Scrum Master as team member

The 59-minute Scrum project

• Case study

The product owner

• Description
• Responsibilities
• Sharing the vision

Product backlog

• Size of the items
• User stories on the product backlog
• Backlog-writing workshops
• Invest in your backlog !

Meetings

• The daily scrum
• Sprint review
• Sprint retrospective

Sprint planning

• Sprint prioritization
• Sprint goal
• Sprint planning meeting
• Sprint backlog items

Release planning

• Velocity
• Estimating the product backlog
• Release planning meeting

Tracking progress

• Sprint burndown charts
• Release burndown charts
• Task boards

The Team

• Composition
• Teams are cross-functional
• Organizing

Scalability

• The scrum of scrums
• Focus of Initial sprints
• Shared vs specific product backlogs
• Scaling the product owner
• Getting started