Agile and Scrum

Target Audience

This course is appropriate for all product-oriented leaders including product managers, technical leaders, business sponsors and stakeholders, project managers, business analysts, and other organizational leaders.

Learning Objectives

• Develop a shared understanding of why and how Scrum can benefit your team, project, and organization.
• Learn the scope of the product owner’s role in setting vision and guiding direction of a product or application.
• Explore techniques for engaging stakeholders, understanding value, and balancing their needs.
• Define a product portfolio to balance new functionality, discovered learning, and technical work.
• Create roadmaps, goals, epics, user stories, and acceptance criteria to articulate needs and communicate direction.
• Utilize visualization techniques to expose and address uncertainty and risk.
• Collaborate in the Scrum Team Sprint Cycle — Planning, Grooming, Daily Scrum, Review and Retrospective.

Course Outline

• Certified Scrum Product Owner^® (CSPO) Certification
• Two-year membership in the Scrum Alliance
• 14 PDUs from PMI^® (Project Management Institute^®)
• PMI-ACP: This course counts as 14 of the 21 contact hours needed to be eligible for the PMI^®-ACP certification

Day 1:

Day 1 is a full-day simulation of Scrum by doing Scrum. The class is run as a Scrum project, and throughout the day teams will form, develop goals, build backlogs, and sprint multiple times as they learn not only what Scrum is, but get first-hand experience in doing it and understanding why it works.

Day 1 Topics:

• Agile History and Perspective
• Scrum Values and Framework
• Scrum Team Roles
• Product Backlog & Backlog Items
• Backlog Estimation & Ordering
• Sprint Cycle — Getting to Done
• Sprint Planning & Visual Sprint Boards
• Sprint Teaming and the Daily Scrum
• Sprint Review & Retrospective
• Scaling & Distributed Teams
• Learning Reflection

Day 2:

Day 2 is focused on the Scrum Product Owner role in being a single voice for stakeholders and identifying and delivering incremental value to them. Participants learn about and run through minimal viable products (MVPs) as a classroom experience in both learning and applying their trade. The workshop is focused in four MVP-style segments in introducing the role, delivering features, addressing uncertainty and feedback, and incorporating technical work in their products.

Day 2 Topics:

• Scrum Product Owner in a Nutshell
  • Overview of the Role
• Stakeholders and Stakeholder Value Diversity
  • An Impossible Problem
• Kano Model and Deciding What Stakeholders Want/Need
• Driving Features Through Roadmaps, Goals, Epics, Stories, and Acceptance Criteria
• Learning to Break Down Epics and Stories into Meaningful and Valuable Backlog Items
• Product Owner in Scrum Ceremonies
  • Backlog Grooming, Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Review, and Retrospective
• Maslov’s Conscience Competence Matrix
  • How to Deal with the Unknown and Other Risks
• Leveraging Spikes to Validate Assumptions, Test Hypotheses, and Run Experiments to Learn Faster
• Iterating vs. Incrementing
  • What They Are and When to Leverage Them
• Technical Backlog Items vs. Acceptance Criteria vs. Definition of Done
• Measuring Agile Team Productivity, Predictability, Quality, and Value
• Product Portfolio Pie
  • Features, Feedback and Technical Work Balance
• Learning Reflection

MDI870 Course Code