Organizations are increasingly moving from traditional waterfall methods of software development to agile methodologies. Scrum has emerged as one of the most commonly applied agile practices. Today’s successful software projects implement at least some aspect of Scrum.

This intensive two day instructor-led course guides participants through every characteristic of Scrum, including roles, planning, artifacts, and most importantly, the motivation behind implementing these elements.  All this will be experienced through a balanced combination of lecture, candid discussion, hands-on exercise, and demonstration, as well as a few surprises.

Audience:

• Anyone involved with software development.

Participants will learn to:

• Understand the core Agile values
• Distinguish between theory and actionable practices
• Identify the characteristics of Scrum
• Describe roles and responsibilities on a Scrum project
• Track and manage requirements in an agile manner
• Populate and groom a product backlog
• Create a Sprint backlog
• Plan for releases
• Plan for sprints
• Report status and track progress
• Execute a Sprint demo
• Execute a Sprint retrospective
• Identify, prioritize, and estimate project goals
• Identify acceptance criteria for project goals
• Avoid common Agile traps and pitfalls