Agile Scrum Fundamentals: An Agile Beginner Course

Identify pre-scrum challenges, including premature project planning, weak cross-department teamwork, and the clash between autocratic and democratic leadership, as groundwork for the coming modules.

Discover agile scrum fundamentals that replace upfront project planning with iterative delivery, avoiding waterfall delays and accommodating changing requirements to deliver value that meets client needs.

Shift from self-serving leadership to devotion to serving clients and boosting morale by fostering teamwork across departments. Implementing scrum reduces matrix silos, enables impediment handling, and improves software delivery value.

Analyze problems before scrum—upfront planning, cross-department dedication, and autocratic versus democratic leadership—and explore how the scrum framework improves teamwork and software development.

Define scrum roles and the scrum team; use the DoD for user stories and tasks, pursue accrual development within sprints to balance budget, time, and functionality.

Learn the scrum roles—product owner, scrum team, and scrum master—and their responsibilities to deliver a potentially releasable product increment through self-organizing, cross-functional collaboration within a small, co-located team.

Facilitate the scrum process and protect the team from disruptions. Coach the team to embrace scrum values, acting as a servant leader who removes impediments.

Explore how the scrum framework replaces the traditional project manager by distributing responsibilities to the product owner and scrum master, streamlining decision making, release planning, and budgeting.

Step into scrum roles—scrum master, product owner, and team members—and role-play sprint planning, daily scrums, sprint reviews, and retrospectives to master collaboration and agile project management.

Explore scrum user stories, estimation, and the definition of done, using the actor-action-achievement template and a logged-in customer wish list example.

Learn how to estimate scrum effort using size-based techniques with t-shirt sizes, enabling a product owner to prioritize the backlog while the team reaches consensus using cards.

Master the definition of done (DoD) in scrum, a set of criteria that determines feature completion across functional and non-functional requirements, design, coding, and testing.

Practice estimating user stories with t shirt sizing by relative sizes (small, medium, and large) based on perceived effort and complexity for three web app stories.

Master the sprint backlog, a living artifact in the Scrum framework that tracks committed user stories, their status from started to done, and daily progress toward sprint goals.

Define sprints as short iterations in the scrum framework delivering a shippable product, typically two to four weeks, with one-week exploration sprints approved by product owner, planning and burndown charts.

Explore the scrum burndown chart as a visual tool to track sprint progress, plan releases, and understand velocity with backlog changes.

Simulate sprint planning and burndown charts to monitor sprint progress within scrum teams. Form teams, select and break down user stories, and track daily stand-ups to improve scrum practices.

Learn how the sprint review meeting demonstrates the delivered product increment, fosters transparency, and lets the product owner and stakeholders adjust upcoming sprint goals based on feedback.

Take part in the sprint retrospective to reflect on the sprint process, identify improvements, and continuously adapt team practices to boost scrum performance and product quality.

The backlog refinement meeting updates the product backlog by adding, removing, and refining stories, sizing and prioritizing for a shippable increment within a sprint.

Lead an interactive exercise that assigns Scrum roles, uses a local grocery store app project scenario, and practices backlog refinement, daily scrum, sprint planning, sprint review, and sprint retrospective meetings.

Train new Scrum team members in scaled scrum, align them with project value, establish norms, and enable on-the-job training for distributed teams to ensure clear communication and value delivery.

Learn how component teams and feature teams balance specialization with delivering complete features and business value. Address the challenges of distributed environments with strong scrum leadership and cross-team knowledge transfer.

Coordinate multiple scrum teams by maintaining a universal Scrum product backlog and local backlogs with synchronous sprints, and conduct sprint reviews and retrospectives to align teams and drive improvement.

Develop a release plan in scrum that combines feature and date considerations, using velocity and the product backlog to forecast sprints and milestones.

Learn practical steps to become a certified scrum master from scratch by applying scrum principles in various projects, expanding your network, earning a certification, and highlighting transferable skills.