Scrum Master Workshop

Target Audience:

This course is for Tech Leaders, Project Managers, Scrum Masters, Dev Team members and anyone who wants learn to coach the Agile/Scrum team to increase their productivity.

Course Objectives:

• Understand why teams need to be part of Strategy & Release Planning to understand the vision and goals of the organization and make sure requests align with the vision and strategy of the organization.
• Understand the Agile Mindset and why it is important for the learner, the business unit, as well as the organization.
• Understand how to apply the 12 Agile Principles.
• Focus on Scrum Master techniques to coach the Product Owner, the Organization as well as the Development Team.
• Utilize your product during the workshop exercises for quick applicability and uncover common cultural issues and organizational issues within your organization.
• Learn what it takes to lead Scrum Team and understand what other Agile Leaders responsible for Agile Transformation wish they had done differently.
• Experience a Sprint and perform all events to inspect and adapt thus solidifying the learners understanding of what it takes to really be Agile.
• Understand each the role of the Product Owner, Scrum Master and how to be a member of the Dev Team, and how to work collaboratively as part of the team.
• Apply techniques to help define the Product Backlog and understand User Stories.
• Understand the Scrum Framework and how to implement your projects in shorter iterations, focus on the work needed “just in time” to understand how to create results faster with higher quality.
• Describe how implementing the Scrum Framework allows teams to deliver more specific content to employees/departments in faster increments.

Lesson 1: Overview of Agile

• Understanding the framework
• 12 principles of Agile
• Framework Defined
• Agile Common Themes
• Benefits of Agile
• Understand why the Agile Mindset is important for Learners, Business Units, as well as Organization and Culture

Lesson 2: Scrum Defined

• Definition of Scrum
• Uses of Scrum in your environment
• Understand being part of Strategy and Release Planning can increase delivery of roadmaps for skill gap assessment and just in time training.
• Apply the Agile Mindset to help drive organizational change.
• Scrum Theory
• Scrum Values
• Scrum Team (Roles)
• Scrum Events
• Scrum Artifacts
• Artifact Transparency

Lesson 3: Planning and Estimating

• Planning techniques
• Estimating techniques
• User Stories

Lesson 4: Scrum Master Responsibilities during Sprint Execution

• Sprint Planning
• Daily Scrum
• Sprint Review
• Sprint Retrospective

Lesson 5: Course Review and Retrospective

• What will happen if we do not become Agile?
• Do we need more refinement of Writing User Stories?
• Course Retrospective - What did we do well, what can we improve upon, what should we implement in the next iteration?