Agile Scrum Immersion

This intensive two-day instructor-led course guides participants through every characteristic of Scrum, including roles, events, artifacts, and most importantly, the motivation behind implementing these elements. All this will be experienced through a balanced combination of lecture, candid discussion, hands-on exercise, and demonstration, as well as a few surprises.

Description

Organizations are increasingly moving to more agile ways of developing software. Scrum has emerged as one of the most commonly applied agile implementations. Today’s successful software projects implement at least some aspect of Scrum and organizations are reaping the rewards (better quality, faster time to market, and happier employees and customers) of Scrum done right. This course can start your teams off on the right foot.

Audience:

Any role involved with software development.
Very beneficial for whole teams looking to leverage Scrum in the right way.

Participants will learn to:

Understand the core Agile values
Distinguish between theory and actionable practices
Identify the characteristics of Scrum
Describe roles and responsibilities on a Scrum project
Track and manage requirements in an agile manner
Populate and refine a Product Backlog
Create a Sprint Backlog
Plan for Releases
Plan for Sprints
Track progress
Execute a Sprint Review
Execute a Sprint Retrospective
Identify, prioritize, and estimate larger initiatives
Identify acceptance criteria
Avoid common Agile traps and pitfalls

Agenda:

Day 1: Agile & Scrum Overview

Introduction to Agile

Manifesto Lab
Agile Values & Principles
Theory vs Actionable Practices
Agile Implementations & Frameworks
Scrum Overview
XP Overview
Kanban Overview

Brief Overview of Scrum

Complexity in Software
Why Scrum?
Product Backlog
Sprints
Sprint Backlog
Scrum Events

Scrum Roles, Rules, & Practices

Scrum Simulation Lab

Day 2: Agile Practices

Planning & Estimation

Sprint Planning
Relative Estimating
Sizing Lab
Metrics
Velocity
Release Planning
Planning Lab

Agile Requirements

Ways to gather requirements
How much detail is needed?
User Stories (and other ways to populate a Product Backlog)
Why Ambiguity can be Good
Acceptance Criteria
User Story Lab

Agile QA

Acceptance Testing Lab
What is QA?
What is a Test vs Requirement?
Common QA Anti-Patterns
Acceptance Criteria to Tests
Types of Testing
Agile QA Role

Agile Development

Role of an Agile Developer
Craftsmanship and Professionalism
Test-Driven Development Overview
Continuous Integration/Depployment/Delivery
What is DevOps?

Agile Miscellany

Agile Tools (Demos)
Distributed Teams
Scaling Agile
Agile Adoption Anti-Patterns

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