“Agile project management using SCRUM” Workshop

Agile project management using SCRUM workshop

Objective of the workshop

By doing the same things again and again and expecting different results is defying logic. SCRUM provides a totally different way to develop software and the results show tremendous productivity gains. The objective of this two day workshop is to equip the team in the right manner, based on scrum values and principles and then to assist them while implementing. The key objectives of the workshop are; .

• To familiarize the participants with the right scrum principles, roles and artifacts (theory)

• To provide hands on expertise in product backlog, sprint planning, daily scrum, burn down charts, sprint retrospective meetings

Upon successful completion of this workshop, the participants will be ready to start implementing scrum at their work place.

Duration : 2 days (can be customized)

The Agile methodologies – An overview

• The agile manifesto
• The agile principles
• The prominent agile methodologies
• The paradigm shift
• PDCA Vs PDSA
• The business case for going for Agile

Overview of SCRUM

• Origins of scrum
• Lean thinking
• The scrum overview
• Product owner roles and responsibilities
• Scrum master roles and responsibilities
• Scrum team roles and responsibilities
• Teach product backlog
• Teach User stories
• Teach estimation using story points and poker
• Teach sprint planning meeting
• Teach Sprint backlog
• Teach sprinting
• Teach daily scrum
• Teach sprint review
• Teach sprint retrospectives
• Sample project execution (exercise) , following scrum
• Scaling up scrum
• Distributed scrum
• Challenges while implementing
• Scrum smells – Signs of flawed implementations
• Implementation support (optional)