Mastering the Scrum method
Become fully operational with Scrum: work in iterations, empower your teams and build a trusted client/supplier relationship based on visible progress and adjustable priorities.
The world's most widely used Agile framework
This course helps you become fully operational with Scrum. You will learn to work in iterations, empower your teams, write User Stories that carry real business value, and estimate effort using Planning Poker. You will discover how to build a trusted client/supplier relationship, track progress on realistic grounds, and adjust priorities sprint after sprint, in line with the official Scrum Guide. You will also discover the latest trends and current best practices in agility, so you can keep your approach up to date with the discipline.
Prerequisite: no mandatory technical prerequisite.
Learning objectives
By the end of the training, you will be able to:
Training program
7 modules to master the Scrum framework end to end, from theory to implementation.
Foundations of agility and overview of Scrum
- The cultural shift away from predictive approaches (V-model)
- The 4 values and 12 principles of the Agile Manifesto
- The pillars of empiricism per the Scrum Guide: transparency, inspection, adaptation
- The 5 Scrum values: commitment, focus, openness, respect, courage
- Overview of the framework: roles, artifacts, events
- Eligibility and effectiveness criteria for Scrum on a project
The Scrum Team and its responsibilities
- The Product Owner: driving product value and managing the Product Backlog
- The Scrum Master: guardian of the framework, a servant leader
- The Developers: a self-managing, cross-functional team
- Size and composition of the Scrum Team
- The tester's role within a Scrum team
- Other stakeholders: agile coach, sponsor, users
Scrum artifacts and their commitments
- The Product Backlog and the Product Goal
- The Sprint Backlog and the Sprint Goal
- The Increment and the Definition of Done
- Product Backlog refinement (Backlog Grooming)
- Tracking progress: Burndown and Burnup charts
Defining and prioritizing requirements
- Writing a User Story: the "As a… I want… so that…" format
- The INVEST criteria for a quality User Story
- Acceptance criteria and acceptance tests
- Prioritization by business value
- The Kano model for customer satisfaction
Estimating and planning
- Story points and the Fibonacci sequence
- Planning Poker: principle and process
- Team velocity and sprint 0
- The Roadmap and splitting the project into releases
- Release Planning and Sprint Planning
Running a Sprint
- Sprint Planning: the why, the what and the how
- The Daily Scrum: rhythm and objectives
- The Sprint Review: inspecting the increment and adapting the Product Backlog
- The Sprint Retrospective: continuous improvement of the team
- Kanban alongside Scrum: the 5 fundamentals (visualize, limit WIP, explicit rules, measure, improve)
Implementing Scrum in the organization
- Supporting change and motivating teams
- Scrum and outsourcing: limitations and possible adaptations
- Tools supporting Scrum (backlog, communication, tracking)
- Agile engineering practices: continuous integration, TDD, pair programming
- Scaling Scrum across the organization
Target audience and prerequisites
A training designed for all stakeholders of an Agile Scrum project, whatever their role.
Target audience
Project managers, future Product Owners or Scrum Masters, developers, testers, and anyone joining or leading a team working with the Scrum framework.
Prerequisites
No technical prerequisite is required. A first exposure to project management principles is a plus.
Put Scrum into action today
Contact us to organize this training in-house, remotely or in person, and give your teams the keys to lasting agility.