Agile Certification for Managers: Master Scrum and Boost You

Embrace agile to adapt, deliver quickly, prioritize customer needs, and foster collaboration and continuous improvement through servant leadership and the four values.

Prioritize people and communication over processes and tools, deliver working software over extensive documentation, collaborate with customers over contract negotiations, and respond to change over following a plan.

Master agile principles by delivering valuable software in small increments, embracing changing requirements, and fostering close collaboration between business stakeholders and developers to create a sustainable, high-quality product.

Learn what a framework is within agile methodologies and how agile frameworks guide teams through iterative progress, customer collaboration, and continuous improvement, with a focus on the Scrum framework.

Learn how scrum drives collaborative, agile delivery through stand-ups, retrospectives, and time-boxed sprints that adapt to client feedback, delivering high-quality products.

Master the scrum pillars and values, including transparency, inspection, and adaptation, and apply product backlog, sprint backlog, sprint planning, daily standup, sprint review, and retrospective.

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Master backlog management by maintaining a living, prioritized list of features, enhancements, and bugs refined and estimated with the product owner, ensuring smart items are pulled into sprints for implementation.

Identify stakeholders and needs through market research, surveys, focus groups, and interviews, then prioritize requirements with user stories and the Moskov method, ensuring specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound features.

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Translate requirements into invest-aligned user stories using the as a user, I want, so that format, then break features into small tasks and estimate with planning poker and Kanban boards.

Explore planning poker in agile to estimate task effort using Fibonacci cards, with stakeholders, product owners, and developers, and reach convergence through discussion.

Use the t shirt sizing method to estimate task size and effort during agile planning, comparing items to a reference size and achieving team consensus for prioritization.

Learn dot voting to streamline decision making in agile teams. Use dots to prioritize backlog items or features, tally votes, and spark discussion to reveal priorities and insights.

Prioritize user stories by importance and impact using Moscow, WCEF, Kano, value versus complexity, and risk versus value, with explicit team involvement.

Refine the user story with product owner and stakeholders to align with objectives, and define acceptance criteria for the forget password flow, including recovery link and setting a new password.

Polish the backlog by validating user stories against acceptance criteria and gathering stakeholder feedback. Conduct regular backlog refinement with grooming techniques to update priorities, estimates, and evolving requirements.

Apply relative weighting to prioritize features by weighing benefits and penalties, then compute total value and value percentage; involve the team to estimate cost and risk.

Define the sprint backlog as a prioritized plan from sprint planning, breaking product backlog items into tasks with time estimates. Track progress and align with the sprint goal through collaboration.

Review and refine product backlog with the product owner to clarify ambiguities and form sprint backlog by selecting priority items, breaking them into smart tasks, estimating effort, and assigning work.

Define what can be delivered in the sprint and how to achieve it through collaboration between the product owner and development team, guiding the sprint goal, time box, and backlog.

Enforce a timeboxed sprint planning guided by the scrum master; the product owner presents the sprint goal, teams estimate, define roles and impediments, and create sprint backlog with done criteria.

Discover how the daily standup delivers brief progress updates, flags impediments or blockers, and keeps the team aligned—without in-depth problem solving or detailed status reports.

Sprint reviews demonstrate completed work and gather stakeholder feedback to update the product backlog and guide the next sprint, while reinforcing team collaboration and a clear definition of done.

Prepare for the sprint review by aligning the scrum master, product owner, and stakeholders; review the product backlog and completed items, demonstrate progress, collect feedback, and agree on next steps.

Explore how agile retrospectives foster continuous improvement by evaluating past sprints, highlighting what worked, identifying improvements, and creating owner-led action plans with clear outcomes.

Master agile product ownership by defining a clear product vision, prioritizing the backlog for business value and feasibility, and collaborating with stakeholders to ensure quality delivery and acceptance criteria.

Define the product vision through user research, competitive and market analysis, and manage backlog with user story mapping and grooming, using Jira, Trello, or Asana to drive value.

Master the scrum master role as a coach who fosters communication, removes impediments, protects the team, and drives continuous improvement through scrum events, tools, and stakeholder reporting.

The Scrum Master and Product Owner collaborate to maintain the backlog, align the team with the product vision and goals, and facilitate communication to resolve impediments.

the agile development team reviews the product backlog with the product owner, defines the sprint goal, breaks backlog items into tasks, and estimates effort for the sprint backlog.

Learn how the agile team groom backlog with the product owner, estimate with story points, and prioritize by value; run stand-ups, reviews, and retrospectives to drive continuous improvement.

Build confidence in agile by mastering essentials from value to principles, frameworks, and techniques, and apply best practices in real-world scenarios to guide teams, projects, and organizations.