COURSE SPECIFICATIONS

Course Summary

Whether your organization is pressing for more Agile practices or not, it’s essential that today’s business analysts and project managers understand the essentials of Scrum and agile techniques. Underlying this emerging approach to development is a value system that resonates with stakeholders, a process that can successfully guide large projects, and defined roles which must be played for projects to be successful. See how these can be applied at your organization.

Key Content

• The agile value system and how it impacts strategy and tactics
• Scrum – what are the fundamentals of this agile methodology
• Roles of Scrum Master – who plays this role, and how does this role improve management of the project
• Role of Product Owner – Who plays this role, and how does this improve stakeholder communication of needs in the process
• Role of Team Member – Who plays this role and how does this develop a collaborative environment between business and IT
• How do the roles work together to gain greater commitment to timetable and functionalities
• Where do traditional roles of Analyst and Project Manager fit within these role definitions
• What does the Scrum process look like
• What makes effective user stories
• How do you build commitment on sprint planning and defining ‘done’
• How do key techniques like burndown charts, daily scrum, and release burndown work
• How do you bring the critical elements together to maximize performance  

Who Should Attend

Business Analysts, Functional Managers , Project Managers, Business Managers

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Learning Objectives

• Gain understanding of the overall Scrum process

• Understand how the essential Scrum roles work together – and how traditional analysts and project managers roles fit into these new definitions

• Get insight into Scrum terms and techniques to understand how projects and requirements are managed within this rapidly emerging framework

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Reviews

Best Explanation
Reviewer: Artie from Unim

There is a lot of mis-information out there. This is the best put together explaination of Scrum that I've ever heard.

Fine Tunig 
Reviewer: Gered from BCBS
We've been using Scrum for last couple of months and this helped us re-focus our Sprints. The User Stories were of particular interest to our Product Owner.

Sharing
Reviewer: Luke from CSC

For a 'fundamentals' course I found this contains a lot tips that I can apply and share with our team. Thanks.

Course Content

Welcome

Section Contents

• Conceptual Understanding
• Understanding the Roles
• Terms & Techniques 
• What is everyone Trying to Do
• Scrum & Agile Development
• What is Agile
  • Agile Differences
  • Agile Manifesto
  • Mythology
• What is Scrum
  • Scrum Roles
  • Best Practices
  • Components
• Planning a Sprint
  • User Stories
  • Sample User Stories
• Sprint Commitment
  • Planning Poker
• Sprint
  • Sprint Backlog
  • Daily Scrum
  • Work Periods
• Sprint Burndown
  • Creating a Burndown Chart
  • What It All Means
  • Example
  • Release Burndown Chart
• Sprint Review
  • Inspect & Adapt
  • Why Do It
  • Demo
• Sprint Retrospective
  • ScrumMaster Reminder List
  • Between Sprints
  • Scrum Value

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