Agile Scrum Deep Dive, Certification, Jira + Bonus* SAFe

Explore common project management methodologies, including waterfall, RAD, and agile, with their pros and cons, and learn the agile manifesto foundations emphasizing individuals, working software, and change adaptation.

Explore agile methodologies such as extreme programming (XP), Kanban, Scrum, and DSDM, compare them to Scrum, and preview SAFe in enterprise contexts.

Discover extreme programming, a lightweight agile method for changing requirements. It covers planning games with customers and developers, test-driven development, pair programming, continuous integration, coding standards, and sustainable pace.

Learn Kanban as an agile method emphasizing visualization, flow management, and limiting work in progress to optimize queues and prevent bottlenecks in manufacturing and software.

Explore the high-level origins of scrum and its core values: commitment, courage, focus, openness, and respect, and how early research and pioneers shaped the framework.

Apply lean software development to emphasize continuous learning, amplifying learning experiences, delivering as fast as possible, and seeing holes in the big picture with empowered teams and integrity.

Learn how SAFe, a scaled agile framework for enterprise-wide programs, supports large teams and value streams across team and program levels, introduced in 2007 and growing in popularity.

Draws on the global state of scrum report to show widespread adoption, hybrid practices, and the impact on delivering customer value, flexibility, and quality.

Explore professional scrum master certifications (psm i–iii), their online exam format, fees, passing score, and registration steps.

Scrum acts as a framework for addressing complex adaptive problems by delivering the highest possible value through short, self-organizing sprints, with frequent inspection and adaptation.

Explore the three pillars of scrum—transparency, inspection, and adaptation—as they enable a framework to address complex adaptive problems and deliver the highest value.

Explore the five scrum values—commitment, courage, focus, openness, and respect—and learn how self-organizing teams deliver valuable products quickly by staying focused, addressing challenges openly, and collaborating.

Apply the scrum lifecycle to deliver value: create and prioritize the product backlog, plan sprints, run daily scrums, and review and retrospect to produce a potentially shippable increment.

Explore the three scrum roles: product owner, scrum master, and development team, and how they own the backlog, protect the process, and deliver self-organizing, high-quality increments.

Explore agile user stories as the building blocks of the backlog, using the 'as a user, I want, so that' format, invest criteria, and lightweight note-taking.

Explore relative estimation and planning poker to size software stories against a common task, justify estimates through discussion, and align velocity with team planning.

Prioritize backlog stories with the MoSCoW method, classifying as must have, should have, could have, or would not have to guide the release.

master sprint zero and release planning within agile scrum, aligning backlog, estimates, and velocity with high-level design and architecture. learn to plan releases and production deployments flexibly, not overplan.

Explore agile ceremonies, including sprint planning, daily scrums, sprint reviews, and retrospectives, with hours-based task estimation, test-driven development, and ongoing customer feedback guiding the backlog.

Explore how a sprint converts the product backlog into sprint work with stories, points, and releases, tied to fixed sprint duration. Learn the definition of done, planning, demo, and retrospective.

Explore sprint velocity and burn down charts to measure completed story points, track planned versus actual work, and forecast release progress with trend analysis.

Explore how a scrum board visualizes sprint work using backlog, to do, in progress, and done columns. Learn how physical or digital boards support team visibility and flexible workflows.

Contrast Kanban's continuous flow and work-in-progress limits with Scrum's sprint-based backlog and time-boxed iterations, highlighting key differences.

Explain how Safe (scaled agile framework) sits atop scrum, outlining a portfolio hierarchy where a portfolio spans multiple products, each product contains multiple releases and sprints, with coordinated delivery.

Explore the SAFe structure across portfolio, program, value stream, and team levels, and learn how to coordinate multiple products, releases, and priorities within large enterprises.

Explore SAFe's levels—team, program, value stream, and portfolio—and the roles that fit each level, with team sizes and alignment from product owner to enterprise architect.

Explore SAFe program increment basics from organizational strategy to portfolio and program backlogs, with five two-week iterations, backlog filtering, and PI objectives.

Explore the SAFe pi process, where a program increment spans five iterations—four sprints and an integration iteration—across multiple teams, with program demos and lessons learned guiding the next increment.

Explore Jira as a popular agile project management tool, covering issues, epics, stories, sprints, backlogs, workflows, labels, releases, dashboards, and add-ons to tailor your agile process.

Navigate Jira from sign-up to project setup, explore dashboards and filters, create issues and stories, manage backlogs and sprints, and understand free trial pricing and data retention.