Managing Projects Using Scrum Courseware (MPS)
This one-day course will help your team deliver software effectively using Scrum, while minimizing waste and fostering an agile mindset. Using a combination of lecture, demonstrations, hands-on activities, and team-based exercises, attendees will build 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. Working together on a shared case study, teams will put each practice to use the way a real Scrum Team would.
Who should take this class?
Product Owners, Scrum Masters, developers, testers, and team leaders who want to improve how their software is delivered should attend, plus the managers and business analysts who support them. Both technical and non-technical professionals will benefit. No prior agile experience is required, though a project management or software development background helps. Attendees should review the latest Scrum Guide (scrumguides.org) beforehand.
Benefits
This course provides several learning objectives and benefits
- Describe agile software development values and principles
- Explain why empiricism is best suited for complex work
- Describe the Scrum framework and its foundations
- List and explain the various Scrum accountabilities (roles)
- List and explain the various Scrum events
- List and explain the various Scrum artifacts
- List and explain the various Scrum commitments
- Refine a Product Backlog
- Take a lean approach to requirements
- Differentiate requirements and specifications
- Explain the importance of acceptance criteria
- Apply agile estimation techniques
- Create a Definition of "Ready"
- Create a Definition of Done
- Reduce waste during development
Outline
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
Required Prerequisites
Having some project management and software development experience, either as a team member or as a project manager, is recommended.
Useful Prerequisites
Experience with Agile software development, and Scrum in particular, are also helpful, but not required. Attendees should read and be familiar with the Scrum Guide prior to class.
License
Length: 1 day | $35.00 per copy
What is Included?
- Student Manual
- PowerPoint Presentation
