Synopsis

It is easy to understand why a project team or organisation would choose to use Agile and Scrum to execute their project, but there are pros and cons of using the approach which need to be fully understood, as it is one thing to see and an entirely different thing to do.

This course is intended for all members of the project team and is designed to teach delegates how to implement Agile and Scrum into their projects now. By reviewing real-world examples and techniques that dozens of teams from organisations of all sizes have used, every step of the Agile project lifecycle is covered and adapted to a sample project or a delegate's current project.

This is an interactive course that will provide the knowledge and skills to use these powerful methods, taken from actual examples, best practices, tips and tricks used by Fortune 500 companies in the successful implementation of Agile and Scrum. 

Learn

• Describe the difference between Agile and Scrum roles and traditional roles and responsibilities
• Plan your release and build a backlog
• Identify and write good stories
• Prioritise and size stories
• Implement and carry out Sprint 0, Sprint Planning and task estimating and Sprint Review and retrospective
• Explain why Agile and Scrum are adopted and how Agile can fail

This course uses digital materials.

Topics

• Adopting Agile Methods

  Tips for Getting Started

  Implementation Strategies

  Agile Fail Points

  Overcoming Resistance

  Sample Agile Calendar

• Agile Introduction and Overview

  The Traditional Process

  Why Agile

  Agile Methods

  Agile Benefits

  Basics of Agile

• The Agile Team

  Agile Team Characteristics

  Self-organising Teams

  Roles & Responsibilities

  Management Role

  Expectations

• The Agile Planning Framework

  Agile Planning

  6 Levels of Planning

  Agile Release Lifecycle

  Establishing Product Vision

• Understanding the Customer

  Thinking like the User

  User Roles

  Customer Personas

• Product Roadmap

  Product Themes/Feature Groups

  Use Case Diagrams

  Roadmaps

  Focus Exercise

• Creating the Product Backlog

  User Stories

  U-INVEST Model

  Non-Functional Stories

  Acceptance Criteria

  What makes a good story (sizing and substance)

  Story Writing Techniques

• Breaking Down EPICs

  Compound vs. Complex Stories

  How to Break Down Large Stories

  What Stories are not

• Prioritizing the Product Backlog

  Methods for prioritising Business Value Points

  Sequencing Charts/Dependency Diagrams

  Expectations for Prioritising Stories

• Sizing Stories

  Actual vs. Relative estimating

  Story Points

  Planning Poker

  Complexity Buckets

• Release Planning

  What is Release Planning

  Utilizing Velocity

  Sprint 0

  Pre-Release Sprint

  Communication

• Story Elaboration

  Getting to the details

  Pre-planning session

  Acceptance Tests

  Agile Modeling examples

• Sprint Planning

  Sprint Planning Preparation

  Capacity Planning

  Task breakdown

  Definition of “done”

  Realistic Commitments

• Sprint Execution

  Daily Standup (Daily Scrum)

  Task boards

  Agile Tools

  Burn-down, burn-up and other metrics

  Scaling Agile

• Closing out the Sprint

  Sprint Reviews

  Retrospectives

  Demos