Implementing Scrum for Your Team

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Course Overview

Summary:

Many organizations are moving to Agile methods, Scrum in particular, for several reasons. These include the reality of changing customer requirements, increased competitive pressure and the need to both deliver value quickly to customers and respond to competitive pressures. Scrum is an excellent framework for producing incrementally.

Net Objectives believes it is critical to continually prioritize and manage producing increments based on highest business value.

Implementing Scrum for Your Team (ISFYT) provides a solid understanding of the Lean principles, key tenets, and Scrum practices for successfully implementing Scrum.

All Net Objectives consultants have hands on practical experience with applying Lean thinking to Scrum in the delivery of software technology solutions.

Course Objectives:

This course prepares teams to begin practicing Scrum. It covers all aspects of Scrum needed by team members to perform it. Additionally, Lean thinking and business practices for defining and prioritizing business value increments are included, along with management practices for achieving a cadence of consistent deliver y of business value increments (flow).

Unlike Scrum Master training which focuses on the Scrum Master role, our Scrum Team Training focuses on how your Scrum teams can adopt Scrum. While all of the roles of Scrum are covered, the work of the team is focused on. After this training teams should be able to start using Scrum.

Note: We highly recommend consulting and coaching services to be included with this training offering, or consider the The Kanban/Scrum Team Startup Package. This is especially true if your teams have little to no prior iterative development experience.

Scrum is easy to adopt, but difficult to implement and realize effective higher business value; teams and/or organizations starting scrum adoption will uncover many issues and challenges - in tr ying to execute the practices, or revealed by using the practices. Net Objectives’ consultants and coaches have extensive experience in successful Scrum adoptions and can provide the early guidance to teams and/or organizations for quicker more effective implementation.

Target Audience:

Lean Implementation

Team Agility

Agile

Lean-Agile

Scrum

Primary Audience:

Any practitioner involved in the software development process: Developers, Analysts, Testers, Architects, tech leads, sponsors, managers, and business SMEs.

This course is targeted to Teams beginning to implement Scrum, or newly formed teams using scrum, It is advantageous for all those on the development team and related to the development team to be there. Higher level management’s presence will contribute both to the course and the transition.

Learning Objectives:

In this course, you will learn:

What Scrum is
The roles and responsibilities of a Scrum team
The role and responsibilities of the Scrum Master
The role and responsibilities of the Product Owner
Management’s role and responsibilities for successful scrum teams
How to manage Scrum projects
How to use and adjust Scrum practices for greater effectiveness without jeopardizing the goal and intended outcome
How to analyze and manage requirements in Scrum projects
Options for estimating, sizing, and decomposing work
The limitations of Scrum and how to apply Lean practices

Course Outline

Introduction
Thinking differently
Lean-Agile overview
Context
Managing discovery
Roles, responsibilities, and boundaries
Incremental realization of value
Key points
- Drive by value
- Small increments
- Visibility
- The “whole” team
Understanding Lean
- Key drivers
- Lean thinking
- Lean-Agile management
Iterative development
Doing Scrum
- Scrum team practices
- Lean-Agile business practices
- Scrum team practices
- Scrum meetings
Lean-Agile business practices
Scrum team practices
- Iteration 0
- Product backlog management
- Decomposition and writing stories
- Estimating
- Iteration meetings
Lean-Agile management practices
- Visibility
- Flow of delivery of value
- Transition

Full Description

Scrum has a solid track record and is one of the most popular Agile methods.

In a nutshell, Scrum involves:

Developing (and potentially delivering) software in stages
Having a Scrum Master manage the process and practices utilized by the team to ensure the teams’ effectiveness and visibility of all work and progress.
Having a Product Owner (representing the business and/ or customer) prioritize these items, managing scope and time line.
Empowering teams to develop high quality, valuable software quickly.

This course is a team-centered offering that teaches a development team how to implement Scrum.

It is a combination of interactive lecture with a significant amount of time spent on hands-on exercises.

This is the course to have your team attend. While only one or two team-members need to know how to play the role of the Scrum Master, all the members need to know what Scrum is and what is expected of them.

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If you don't see a scheduled public course in your area don't worry! We specialize in providing in-house training to meet your particular needs, or we can arrange a Public Course in your local area if you have 6 or more team members committed to attend.

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