Agile Scrum

Duration
5 Days
Price
1.00 ج.م.‏
Course Type
No Location
This course is an adaptive, repeatable process that equips individuals and organizations in how to thrive in a world where change is the only constant. From Fortune 100 companies (Google, Amazon, Apple, etc) to nonprofits. Scrum has a proven record of reducing burnout, doubling throughput in half the time, and increase employee happiness.

Learning Objectives

How to use the Scrum Framework to deliver products and services faster and with higher quality.

  • How to leverage lean principles to identify waste in a system, process, or organization.
  • Techniques and metics Scrum Masters use to improve. team happiness and performance.
  • The patterns and practices of high-performing teams.
  • How the Scrum Master role scales in an Agile implementation.

Course Outline

1 - Core Scrum
  • The Scrum Framework
  • The Origins of Scrum (Optional)
  • The Scrum Team
  • Developers
  • Scrum Master
  • Leadership/Management
  • Scrum Events
  • The Sprint
  • Product Backlog Re1nement
  • Estimation
  • Sprint Planning
  • Sprint Review
  • Sprint Retrospective
  • Daily Scrum
  • Scrum Artifacts
2 - Lean Principles
  • Describe a Kaizen mindset and explain how small, iterative changes can lead to revolutionary leaps.
  • Describe the three pillars of Scrum – Transparency, Inspection, and Adaptation,– which implement the work of Ogunnaike and Ray.
  • Explain the importance of reducing and eliminating waste in the system.
  • Perform a root-cause analysis (e.g., using the ‘5 Whys’ technique).
  • Assess the Process EZciency of their Scrum Team and recall that the de1nition of Lean is a Process EZciency of 25% or higher.
  • Explain how the work of Takeuchi and Nonaka on Lean and the Toyota Production System paved the way for Scrum.
  • Describe the origins of the name ‘Scrum’ from Takeuchi and Nonaka’s ‘New New Product Development Game.
  • Recognize that a Lean mindset suggests that you address a defect immediately after it is identi1ed as opposed to a mindset where defects are stored to be 1xed later.
3 - Agile Manifesto
  • Recognize the four values of the Agile Manifesto and their signi1cance in the context of complex adaptive systems.
  • Identify the 12 principles of the Agile Manifesto and describe their function in guiding practices that support teams in implementing and executing with agility.
  • Explain that Scrum is one of the driving forces that gave rise to the Agile movement and predates the Agile Manifesto.
  • Explain why the majority of “Agile” teams are late, over-budget, and with unhappy customers (i.e., not agile) and explain what needs to be done to 1x that.
4 - Patterns of High Performing Teams
  • Yesterday’s Weather
  • Happiness Metric
  • Teams that Finish Early Accelerate Faster
  • Stable Teams
  • Swarming
  • Interrupt Buffer
  • Good Housekeeping (formerly Daily Clean Code)
  • Scrum Emergency Procedure
5 - Scrum@Scale
  • Descaling
  • Scaling the Scrum Master
6 - Registered Scrum Master Credential
  • Access and complete the Registered Scrum Master by Scrum Inc. exam.
  • Download their Registered Scrum Master Credential (upon successful completion of the exam).
  • Be Recognized in the International Registry of Agile ProfesstionalsTM
  • State the renewal process.

Target Audience

The job roles best suited to the material in this course are: team leaders, project managers, managers of scrum teams, teams transitioning to scrum, professionals intending to pursue the scrum master certification.

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