Applying Professional Scrum

Applying Professional Scrum (APS) is a 2-day course that teaches Scrum in a highly practical way. Working in a series of Sprints, participants build a real product while facing real-life problems. The mechanics, accountabilities, values, and empirical processes of Scrum are demonstrated by actually experiencing them. Common missteps and misunderstandings are discussed so participants grow a higher awareness of their symptoms.

Description

Applying Professional Scrum is excellent training for teams and anyone wanting to experience the Scrum way of working. The course also provides the foundation of knowledge needed for role-focused training for Product Owners, Scrum Masters, and Developers. 

Targeted Audience:

  • Existing or new Scrum team members
  • Project and Program Managers
  • Anyone who is responsible for delivering value and positively impacting customers
  • It is an ideal class for a team to take together before starting out with Scrum (and making all the common mistakes)

Learning Objectives:

  • Fundamentals to Scrum: 
    -This module introduces the fundaments of complexity and empiricism underpinning the Scrum framework. 
  • Scrum Framework:
    - Accountabilities- Scrum Master, Product Owner and Developers
    - Events – Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective and Sprint
    - Artifacts – Product backlog, Sprint backlog, Increment
    - Commitments - Product Goal, Sprint Goal, Definition of Done
  • Scrum Implementation: 
    - Planning
    - Estimating
    - Scrum Measurements
    - Self-managing Teams
    - Release planning
    - Reporting
  • Beyond this classroom experience:
    - Define what’s next for your team, your organization. Students will create a Scrum implementation backlog
    - How will you apply what you learned in the class?
    - Discuss the challenges in your organization
    - How to keep Scrum healthy?
    - Patterns and Anti Patterns

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