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Course Outline

Introduction

  • Overview of Agile and Scrum for government
  • Foundational principles of Scrum

Understanding the Three Roles in Scrum

  • Responsibilities and challenges of a Scrum Master
  • Responsibilities and challenges of a Product Owner
  • Responsibilities and challenges of the Development Team

Understanding the Scrum Ceremonies

  • Sprint Planning
  • Daily Scrum
  • Sprint Review
  • Sprint Retrospective

Scrum Artifacts

  • Product Backlog
  • Sprint Backlog
  • Product Increment

Executing a Sprint

  • Planning the execution of a sprint
  • Managing workflow
  • Conducting resolution meetings
  • Managing communications
  • Daily Scrum activities
  • Sprint Retrospective activities

Acceptance Criteria and Definition of Done (DoD)

  • DoD for features
  • DoD for sprints
  • DoD for releases
  • Differentiating between DoD and acceptance criteria
  • Distinguishing done from done-done

Ready and Release Planning

  • Criteria for a ready user story and sprint
  • Overview of release planning
  • Stakeholders involved in release planning
  • Steps in the release planning process
  • Output from release planning

Charts

  • Sprint Burndown Chart
  • Release Burn-Up Chart

Product Planning

  • Overview of product planning for government
  • Defining product vision
  • Creating a product backlog
  • Utilizing a product roadmap
  • Identifying minimum release features
  • Developing minimum viable products

Working with User Stories

  • Definition of user stories
  • Structure and format of user stories
  • INVEST criteria for user stories

Agile Estimation

  • Overview of Agile estimation
  • Benefits and techniques of Agile estimation

Planning Poker

  • Features and benefits of planning poker
  • Participants in planning poker
  • Rules for planning poker

Taking the Examination

  • Registration procedures
  • Tips and strategies for passing the exam

Summary and Next Steps

Requirements

  • Fundamental understanding of project management

Audience

  • Product managers for government
  • Project managers
  • Software engineers
  • Business analysts
  • Developers
 14 Hours

Number of participants


Price per participant

Runs with a minimum of 4 + people. For 1-to-1 or private group training, request a quote.

Testimonials (4)

workshops, practical cases

Joanna Nowak - LKQ Polska Sp. z o. o.
Course - Introduction to Agile Testing

Jim's real life experience was evident and the fact that he is still working with teams keeps him current with the problems encountered. The activities were interesting and we appreciated the frequency of breaks. Delivery of the course was confident and good humoured too.

Leanne - Welsh Revenue Authority
Course - Professional Scrum Master I | PSM I (accredited training course with Scrum.org exam and certification)

Friendly, plenty of breaks to think about what we have learnt and lovely guy.

Leanne - Welsh Revenue Authority
Course - Agile Business Analysis

I really enjoyed the mix of practical with theory. The trainer was also exteremly knowledgable and answered all our questions perfectly

Kelly - Department of Information Technology Technological University of the Shannon
Course - Effective Agile Project Management with Jira & Confluence

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