Course duration
- 2 days
Course Benefits
- Master the six key SCRUM principles.
- Master the five aspects of a SCRUM project.
- Learn the 19 processes to initiate, plan and estimate, implement, review and retrospect, and release a project successfully.
Course Outline
- Introduction to SCRUM
- Traditional Waterfall SDLCs
- The Agile Manifesto
- The Creation of SCRUM
- Key SCRUM principles
- Empirical Process Control
- Transparency
- Inspection
- Adaptation
- Self-Organization
- Collaboration
- Self-organization
- Leverage cross-functional team expertise
- Proactive seeking of work
- Execution
- Openness to learning
- Continuous upgrading of knowledge and skills
- Delivering results
- Understanding project vision
- Collaboration
- Creating Awareness
- Articulation of Work
- Appropriation of technology to new situations
- Mitigation of Risk
- Value of Colocation
- Value-based Prioritization
- Time-boxing
- Efficiency
- Reduction in overheads
- High velocity
- Sprints
- Daily Standup Meetings
- Sprint Planning Meetings
- Sprint Review Meetings
- viii.Retrospect Sprint meetings
- f.Iterative Development
- Waterfall
- Progressive Elaboration
- Scrum vs Traditional Waterfall approaches
- Empirical Process Control
- The SCRUM Aspects
- Organization
- Scrum Project Roles
- Core
- Produc t Owners (VOC)
- ScrumMaster
- Scrum team
- Non-core
- Other Stakeholders
- Customers
- Users
- Sponsor
- Vendors
- Scrum Guidance Body (SGB)
- Other Stakeholders
- Core
- Product Owner
- Responsibilities
- Voice of Customer (VOC)
- Chief Product Owners in Larger Projects
- Scrum Master
- Responsibilities
- Chief Scrum Master
- Scrum of Scrums
- Scrum Team
- Responsibilities
- Personnel
- Team Development and Sizing
- Projects, Programs, and Portfolios
- Stakeholder Involvement
- Roles and Responsibilities
- viii.HR Team Models
- Tuckman’s Model (Forming, Storming, Norming, and Performing)
- Conflict Management
- Leadership Styles
- Servant Leadership
- Ten Effective Leadership Traits
- Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
- Theory X and Theory Y
- Scrum Project Roles
- Business Justification
- Value Driven Delivery
- Roles and Responsibilities
- Key Factors
- Project reasoning
- Business Needs
- Project Benefits
- Opportunity Cost
- Major Risks
- Timescales
- Costs
- Assess Business Case
- Continuous Value Justification
- Earned Value Analysis
- Cumulative Flow Diagrams
- Confirming Benefits Realization
- Prototypes
- Simulations
- Demonstrations
- Justification Techniques
- Return on Investment (ROI, NPV, IRR)
- Value Planning
- Value Stream Mapping
- Prioritizing
- Simple Schemes
- MoSCoW
- Monopoly Money
- 100 Point
- Kano Analysis
- Relative prioritization Ranking
- Story Mapping
- Quality
- Defining Quality
- Scope
- Business Value
- Acceptance Criteria and the Prioritized Product Backlog
- Minimum AC
- “Done” Criteria
- Management
- Planning (integration and sustainable pacing)
- Control (PDCA)
- Assurance
- Roles and Responsibilities
- Defining Quality
- Change
- Approved and Unapproved Change Requests
- Balancing Flexibility and Stability
- Roles
- Stakeholder Management
- Scrum Core Team
- Senior Management
- Scrum Guidance Body (SCB)
- Using time-boxing
- Using cross-functional teams
- Using value-based prioritization
- Using continuous integration
- Roles
- Integrating Change
- Sprint Changes
- Impact
- Grooming the Prioritized Product Backlog
- Managing Changes in Programs and Portfolios
- Roles and Responsibilities
- Risk
- Defining Risks vs Issues
- Creating Risk Attitude
- Risk Management
- Identification Techniques
- Risk-Based Spike
- Assessment
- Risk Meetings
- Probability Trees
- Pareto Analysis
- Probability Impact Grids
- Expected Monetary Value (EMV)
- Prioritization
- Mitigation
- Communications - Risk Burndown Charts
- Scrum and its role in Minimizing Risk
- Risk Management in Portfolios and Programs
- Roles and Responsibilities
- Organization
- The SCRUM Process Phases
- Initiate
- Create Project Vision
- Project Vision Meeting
- JAD Sessions
- SWOT Analysis
- Gap Analysis
- Defining a Product Owner, Vision Statement, Charter, and Budget
- Identify Scrum Master and Stakeholders
- Form Scrum Team
- Collaboration Plan
- Team Building Plan
- Develop Epics
- User Group Meetings
- User Story Workshops
- Focus Groups
- Interviews
- Questionnaires
- Risk Idenitification
- Writing Epics and Personas
- Create Prioritized Product Backlog
- Assessment and prioritization Methods
- Establishing the Backlog
- Defining Done Criteria
- Conduct Release Planning
- Release Planning Sessions
- Prioritization
- Release Planning Schedule
- Sprint Lengths
- Target Customers
- Create Project Vision
- Plan and Estimate
- Create User stories
- Approve, Estimate, and Commit User Stories
- Create Tasks
- Task Planning Meetings
- Decomposition
- Dependencies
- Task Lists
- Estimate Tasks
- Create Sprint Backlog and Burndown chart
- Implement
- Create Deliverables
- Scrumboard
- Impediment Log
- Change Requests
- Risk Identification and Mitigation
- Conduct Daily Standup
- Three Daily Questions
- War Room
- Video Conferencing
- Groom Prioritized Product Backlog
- Create Deliverables
- Review and Retrospect
- Convene Scrum of Scrums
- Four Questions per Team
- Leveraging SCB Expertise
- Demonstrate and Validate Sprint
- Earned Value
- Accepted and rejected Deliverables
- Risk, Planning, and Dependency Updates
- Retrospect Sprint
- ESVP
- Speedbpat
- Metrics
- Agreed Actionable Improvements
- Convene Scrum of Scrums
- Release
- Ship Deliverables
- Retrospect Project
- Initiate
Class Materials
Each student will receive a comprehensive set of materials, including course notes and all the class examples.
Instructor-led courses are offered via a live Web connection, at client sites throughout Europe, and at our Geneva Training Center.