Scrum for Managers and Executives Training Course
This course is also known as SCRUM awareness training.
Who should attend?
This course has been created for managers, executives and other decision makers who want to know how to calculate the benefits of implementing the methodology or want to understand what their team is doing.
It is also suitable for customers of software development wishing to have a stake holding in the development process.
Course Outline
Short Overview of Project Management Methodologies and Frameworks
- Chaos
- Waterfall
- Prince2
- Agile
Why Agile?
- Comparison of iterative methodologies
- Why things go wrong
- The Agile approach
- What is Scrum?
- Pigs and chickens
Product owner
- The customer representative
- Prioritizing product requirements
- Writing effective stories
- Acceptance criteria
- Negotiating sprint contents
- Group exercise to produce customer requirements and write stories based on the requirements
The sprint
- Sprint backlog
- Sprint planning: what to do
- Sprint planning how to do it
- What happens during a sprint
- Burn down charts
- Group exercise to plan a sprint
Scrum Master
- Implementing Scrum
- Ensuring proper practices
- Maintaining documentation
- Standup meetings
- When to pair program
- Group exercise to implement Scrum
Finishing a sprint
- Scrum review meeting
- Scrum retrospective meeting
- Releasing an iteration
- Group exercise the review a sprint
Is Agile and Scrum for you?
- Review of the Scrum process
- Comparison with other methodologies
- Benefits of pair programming
- Question and Answers Session
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Testimonials (3)
the way the trainer explained the methodology and immediately moved to examples of using it
Antonio
Course - Scrum for Managers and Executives
The exercises we had to do as a team
Helio
Course - Scrum for Managers and Executives
Fantastic course, would love to do a longer course to learn more!
claire
Course - Scrum for Managers and Executives
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