BEC1141 - Agile & Scrum Beyond Software
What They Say
"...did an excellent job teaching in my Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) class as one of the instructors. I felt that Maria's knowledge and understanding of Scrum was very thorough. Her presentation style was engaging and..."
"...our sole Project Management training provider over the last three years in our IT space. As we move toward a more projectized environment, these training courses have been key to learning the techniques for Project Management, across the departments..."
by: Diana, CIO, Iowa
*Week day and weekend courses available to best meet your schedule
Contact us to schedule an onsite training class with your whole team.
Course Description
Description
The purpose of this course is to provide experienced ScrumMasters with additional techniques, which will help the ScrumMaster to propel the team into excellence and faster development. The class begins with a review of the top stumbling blocks that agile teams face. The course runs through agile techniques designed to counter each of the stumbling blocks. The course ends with a practice adapting the Scrum process to different environmental factors. This course is intended to give practical experience to those seeking to expand their agile practices.
Students are encouraged, to submit real world problems that they have experiencing or are experiencing on projects. After leaving this class, students will be able to handle advanced impediments to agile development by employing the appropriate agile technique to improve team performance.
Objectives
Learn the details on Scrum roles: Team Member, Product Owner, ScrumMaster
Understand how to apply empirical thinking to your project work
Learn how a team's productivity can be adjusted to account for its composition
Appreciate the importance of organizational agreement on product readiness
Hear why the ScrumMaster role can be the most satisfying as well as the most difficult job on a project
Discover how conflict resolution plays a critical role in Scrum
Work on a real-world Scrum project live in the classroom
Gain a detailed understanding of how to know when software is "Done" under Scrum
Review and understand the critical characteristics a ScrumMaster must have to succeed
Get to the heart of the matter with Scrum, coaching and team productivity
Compare traditional and Agile project estimating and planning
Conduct decomposition to estimate a Scrum project
Practice Scrum meetings including; Sprint planning, Daily Scrum, Burndowns, Sprint review, and Sprint retrospective
Achieve the first step in Scrum Alliance recognized certifications, enabling you to advance to higher levels of recognition
Learn a framework to operate large projects using Scrum
Audience
Those who need to know the basics of Agile because they will participate on an agile team.
Primary Attendee Group: Project Managers, ScrumMasters
Secondary Attendee Group: Project Team, Product Owners, Managers
Format
Hands-on, interactive, collaborative workshop. Very little lecture. Students must be prepared to work with others in groups. Students can bring real life issues to work through in class.
Materials Provided
Student manual containing course slides and student notes
Recommended Experience - Students should be familiar with:
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