Putting Scrum into Action is designed to leave delegates more confident in five key areas:
- The mechanics of building products with Scrum
- Understanding how Scrum is used to apply Agile principles.
- The Scrum events, artefacts and roles.
- Generating and managing a product backlog.
- Putting Scrum into action.
Course Content
Scrum Simulation
Teams are thrown in at the deep end with a challenge to build a working product in thirty minutes. The simulation emulates the technical and requirements uncertainties that may be experienced in the real world, and then allows Scrum techniques to be applied to overcome them. Sprint one is often chaotic and delegates will feel uncertain how to proceed, but by the final sprint several cycles of inspecting and adapting result in a well-formed and productive team.
The class project itself is a website to support the adoption of Scrum by the team or wider organisation. Delegates define the product need with a vision statement and articulate the desired outcomes. Four sprints are spread across the course supported by theory and practical techniques. Each sprint ends with a review of the product to improve the value of the features being built, and a retrospective identifying technical and personal process improvements to make the next round more effective.
Agile Principles and Business Agility
Explore the intentions behind the agile manifesto and it’s relevancy today. Learn how applying these principles may help to achieve business agility through:
- Faster time to market.
- Ability to respond to new opportunities or competitor actions.
- Control and visibility during product delivery.
The Scrum Framework
Having established the business agility required, we learn how the Scrum framework helps to achieve it. We cover:
- The product owner, development team and scrum master roles. How clear accountabilities bring simplicity to decision-making.
- The product backlog, sprint backlog and increment: providing clear transparent information to maintain visibility of progress.
- Sprint planning, daily scrum, review and retrospectives: providing focus through a regular cycle of time- boxed events.
Managing a product backlog
Explore modern product backlog management techniques including:
- Story point estimation and value assignment.
- Tracking progress with velocity and forecasting release plans.
Putting Scrum into Action
The final sprint focuses on the team building a Scrum adoption plan and articulating it in their product. During the sprint review, teams commit to the tasks required to get ready for their first real sprint.
Putting Scrum into Action Course Outcomes
Teams leave with a shared experience to draw from, a common understanding of Scrum, and a plan for putting scrum into action. The output of the final exercise is a scrum transformation backlog that teams can immediately apply to their real work.
The course is appropriate for anyone working on or with a scrum team, including the development team, scrum master and product owner. The course is especially well suited to groups about to start using Scrum, along with colleagues outside of the team that need to understand how work will be managed. Typical attendees include:
- Development or engineering teams, including software engineers, analysts, and testers.
- Project managers seeking to adapt to agile roles such as scrum master, product owner, or subject matter expert.
- Established or prospective product owners and product managers.
- Stakeholders or users of products who need a good working relationship with agile teams.
For teams that are already using Scrum and understand the basic mechanics, but still need an introductory level refresher to check whether or not they’re doing “proper scrum”, our Introduction to Scrum may be a better fit.
The product development simulation used throughout the course requires access to computers and the internet. It is not necessary to have any technical skills in order not participate: uncertainty in solving problems is all part of the exercise.
We are a friendly team of practitioners who provide a personal level of support, before, during and after the class:
- Pre-course reading designed to expose questions explored in class.
- Contact details allowing delegates to ask questions to the trainer before and after the class.
- Access to a comprehensive set of guidance after the course so that delegates apply learning.
- Digital course effectiveness surveys with results sent out to delegates and sponsors straight after the class.
We can offer Putting Scrum
into Action as a private Live Virtual Classroom for distributed teams. For more information on what we can do for you and your organisation, please enquire.
Location: Online
Duration: 1 day
Materials Included:
- Access to Agility in Mind Academy
- Pre-course reading
- Post course reading
- Practise questions
- Trainers contact information
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