The aim of the course is to introduce a ‘new way of thinking’ in project management and to abandon outdated ideas about the rules of project management for new business opportunities and benefits. The SCRUM project management methodology is aimed at improving communication, teamwork, and development speed.
If you already have experience in project management, this SCRUM methodology basics course will help you systematise your knowledge and fill in any gaps. For beginners, this SCRUM course will provide an opportunity to master the key aspects of the Scrum approach and smoothly enter the Agile topic.
After completing this course, students will be able to:
- Understand and apply the principles and values of agile approaches.
- Define and assign roles in the SCRUM methodology.
- Organise and conduct Scrum events (planning, meetings, reviews, and retrospectives).
- Create and manage Scrum artefacts (Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, etc.).
Audience Profile
This course is designed for a wide range of managers, engineers and developers who are already using or planning to use flexible methodologies for managing product development based on Scrum.
Before attending this course, students must have:
- Experience in project management in medium and large organizations.
- Participation in the implementation of projects.
- Introduction
- The Agile Manifesto, Agile Principles and Values.
- Positioning and connection of Scrum with other methodologies and frameworks.
- Cascade and iterative development models, flexible project management model.
- Lean development. Lean principles. Kanban.
- Extreme development.
- Scrum Methodology: Roles
- Product owner.
- Scrum Master.
- Liberating Structures
- Development team.
- Scrum methodology: Events
- The principle of a clear time limit (Time-Boxed).
- Event Planning sprint (Sprint planning meeting).
- Event Daily rally (Daily Scrum).
- Event Sprint Review.
- Event Sprint Retrospective.
- Scrum Methodology: Artifacts
- User stories about the product (User story).
- Product Backlog and Sprint Backlog.
- Product readiness criteria (Definition of Done).
- Sprint Goal.
- Processes of team formation and work environment organization
- Principles and practices of team building, organizational change.
- Principles for organizing workspaces for Scrum teams.
- Information radiators. Scrum board.
- Measuring "satisfaction/happiness".
- Review of software and services for the work environment.
- Planning, monitoring and scaling
- Formation of a release plan (Release Plan) and its connection with sprints. Plan update.
- Practices of planning, speed and power estimation. Burn Down chart.
- Probabilistic-statistical forecasting.
- Systemic and strategic thinking.
- Typical Scrum Dysfunctions.
- Short review methodologies Scrum of Scrum, Large-Scale Scrum (LeSS), Scaled Agile (SAFe).