About the Course

The changes in culture and mindset are at the heart of successful Agile adoption in a development team. A solid foundation in the values and principles of the Agile Manifesto, the key rules and practices of Scrum, Kanban, and Extreme Programming (XP) so that it will fully understand the commonalities and differences. It can make informed choices about which approach is most likely suitable for any real-life projects in an organisation.

This 5-day Professional Scrum Master Certification training course will cover Pragmatic time-tested practices for managing product backlogs, long and short-range planning, project execution, and progress reporting. Many facets of Scum will be covered, including the project life cycle, roles, ceremonies, and artefacts.

It is designed to deliver the fundamentals of a thriving Agile team culture, providing the delegates with the required information and practical skills to plan, estimate and track Agile project delivery. The delegates will be able to learn about applying Agile values and principles and how to use them to successfully shift the culture, mindset, and behaviours of performing and managing their projects. They will acquire fundamental yet practical knowledge to help them start their agile journey in an agile team that leverages Scrum principles.

Core Objectives

The delegates will achieve the following objectives:

• Define the 4 values and 12 principles of Agile project management
• Explain the differences between Agile methods such as SCRUM, XP, and Kanban
• Apply and use different techniques to estimate story points
• Analyse and differentiate between different tools and techniques to plan, execute, monitor, control, and close the project
• Design a study plan for the SCRUM certification exam

Training Approach

This training course will contain an interactive discussion and case studies and highlight the techniques available to the delegates; it includes different techniques such as pre and post-exams to assess the delegate's knowledge and to be familiar throughout the course; likewise, it consists of a real-world example to illustrate the concept and principles and exercises to implement the learned ideas, Interactive discussion to enable information and knowledge sharing between the delegate, and group activities to implement different tool and techniques.

The Attendees

Likewise, it will be valuable to the professionals but not limited to the following:

• Project Team
• SCRUM Master
• Project Managers
• Business Analysts
• Product Owners
• Anyone interested in Project Management and would like to prepare for the SCRUM Master Certification

Daily Discussion

DAY ONE: INTRODUCTION AND FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPTS

• Agile 4 Values
• Agile 12 Principles
• Agile vs Traditional project management
• How to select the project approach?
• Lean Thinking and Principles
• Overview of XP
• Overview of Kanban

DAY TWO: SCRUM COMPONENTS

• What is SCRUM?
• Importance of SCRUM
• SCRUM Pillars
• SCRUM Team
• SCRUM Activities
• SCRUM Artifacts

DAY THREE: AGILE DOMAINS

• Agile Stakeholders
• Value Planning and Delivery
• Agile Planning
• Agile Team Performance
• Problem Solving
• Continues Improvement
• Agile Testing

DAY FOUR: SCRUM PRINCIPLES

• Process Control
• Iterative Development
• Time Boxing
• Value-based Prioritisations
• Collaboration
• Self-organisation

DAY FIVE: SCRUM ASPECTS AND PROCESSES

• Organisation
• Business Justification
• Quality
• Change
• Risk
• Project Level Processes
• Organisation Level Processes