What We Cover

Understanding Scrum and the Scrum Framework within Agile

• Understanding the 3 characteristics of Empiricism

• Explore Agile values and principles

• Value Driven vs. Schedule Driven

• Discovering the Scrum flow and alternative scrum flows

• Understand and experience scrum meetings and their outcomes

• Learn how release management works Scrum

• Explore the scrum team roles

• Learn how to apply the 5 levels of Agile Planning

• Explore the Agile Artifacts and their relationships to each other

• Learn how to building a sprint goal

• Create balance between new features and functions with process improvement, bug fixes, and team development

• Understand Definition of Done (DoD), Definition of Ready (DoR), and team working agreements

• Understand Scrum of Scrums and approaches to scaling Scrum to an organizational level

Working with Scrum Teams

• Explore how self-managed teams work can work effectively

• Understanding the 4 levels of team self organization

• Apply the Tuckman Model to Agile Teams

• How to develop Scrum teams

• Learn to build a facilitation mindset

• Learn how to use collaborative conflict techniques for better team performance and discover how to make conflict more constructive and meaningful for the Scrum team,

• Understand how to avoid conformity damage

• Build a coach mindset and learn approaches to coaching an Agile team

• Questions to ask your Product Owner to see if they are on track

• Questions to ask the Scrum team to develop productivity.

Managing the Product with Agility

• Explore how the product vision, product roadmap, story map, and product backlog are all connected and how to use them to build an effective and productive team

• Discover the Agile vision board, build a product roadmap

• Understand the Iceberg theory for managing a Product Backlog,

• How to use DAPPER and INVEST on your product backlog

• Explore the different levels of Agile forecasting and approaches for forecasting in Agile

• Solving the contingency paradox in value-driven planning

Developing and Delivering

• Explore emergent development and how to think about architecture in an emergent environment

• Learn approaches for Agile risk management including identification, assessment, and prioritization

• Understand how to deploy risk techniques to reduce the overall risk and how testing strategies affect risk.

• Discover Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) concepts and approaches.

• Explore Scrum-ban and build a Scrum-ban board with workflow stages and WIP limits.

• Learn how to use scrum-ban effectively with the traditional Scrum meetings.

• Understand change management approaches and techniques to keep your team focused

Evolving Agile and Scrum in an Organization

• Learn how to expand Scrum into an organization with evidence-based management (EBM)

• Discover and use measurements to improve team performance

• Build metrics for team and product success and explore potential metrics

• Discover the retrospective value and how to harness it for better team effectiveness

• Learn problem-solving process and techniques

A Day in the Life of a Scrum Master - Problem Solving Common Challenges

• Explore the Scrum Leader certification process and steps needed to complete the Scrum Leader certification

• Learn approaches to studying for the certification

• Engage with real-life scenario-based exercises on how the Scrum Leader would resolve the team problems outlined in the scenario

• Challenge your knowledge with test questions

• Get further study resources for the certification exam