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Agile Project Management for Scrum Masters
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This workshop course teaches ScrumMasters and Product Owners how to drive agile software projects effectively. This course goes beyond the Scrum Alliance ScrumMaster Training by including practices, experiences and simulations that come from real-life projects, thereby helping new Scrum Masters to succeed in their first pass. The course covers all concepts and techniques to scope, strategize, plan and execute agile projects including human team aspects such as motivation and performance management..
Code P20
Discipline Project Management
Duration 2 days
Course Information
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Audience

  Scrum Masters   Development Managers      
  Product Owners     Development Leads        
  Project Managers     QA/Test Managers        
               

at course completion

After completing this course, participants will be able to:

»   Understand the roles in agile projects »   Plan iterations and Sprints
»   Understand the agile framework and processes   »   Drive effective Scrum meetings
»   Kick off an agile project   »   Deal with changes
»   Organize and scope work   »   Drive Sprint endgames
»   Establish and execute resource strategies   »   Perform effective tracking and reporting
»   Create and manage product and sprint backlogs   »   Perform Sprint and project reviews

prerequisites

»   Basic knowledge and experience with project management (e.g. course P10)

course materials

A comprehensive workbook with knowledge material, examples, case studies, lab exercises, and references.

course outline
Module 1: Introduction to Agile Software Development
»   Fundamentals of the Agile approach
»   The Agile development life cycle
»   Scrum and Sprints
»   Roles and responsibilities
»   Communication and collaboration
Module 2: Agile Project Management Model
»   Agile process phases
»   Leadership-collaboration management
»   Adaptive teams
»   Achieving the adoption of an Agile culture
Module 3: Envisioning
»   Building a product vision
»   Creating a product architecture
»   Building project data
»   Organizing the team
»   Establishing the team's best practices
Module 4: Speculation and Elaboration
»   Building a product feature list
»   User stories and Product Backlogs
»   Feature specifications
»   Scope evoluation and project tradeoffs
Module 5: Sprint Planning
»   Release planning and Sprint Backlogs
»   Sprint Planning
»   Integration of defect fixing and test activities
»   Dependencies and conflict resolution
»   Estimating and resource leveling
»   Critical paths and schedule optimization
Module 6: Sprint Execution
»   The iteration/sprint kick-off
»   Workload management
»   Refactoring and frequent integration
»   Dealing with schedule delays
»   Change management
Module 7: Project Reporting and Monitoring
»   Project communication and visibility
»   Scrum meetings and status reporting
»   Quality management and user validation
»   Metrics and dashboards
»   Sprint review meetings

Certificate

Participants receive an industry recognized SoftO2 Education Certificate upon completion of the course.

pricing

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