Comprehensive Agile Project Management and Scrum Master

Compare waterfall and agile to deliver value incrementally through the minimum viable product, with agile emphasizing feedback, demos, and short sprints.

The minimum viable product drives agile development by delivering usable increments for rapid customer feedback, enabling value-driven iterations toward product-market fit.

Unveiling the agile manifesto, the lecture presents the four values and the principles guiding agile practice, including individuals and interactions, working software, customer collaboration, and responding to change.

Prioritize individuals and interactions over processes and tools, working software over comprehensive documentation, customer collaboration over contract negotiation, and responding to change over following a plan to drive agile success.

Learn agile manifesto principles to deliver valuable software early and often, embrace changes, collaborate daily, empower motivated teams, and measure progress by working software and continuous improvement.

Discover how scrum functions as a lightweight framework for complex projects, contrasting with rigid methodologies. Identify product owner, scrum master, and scrum team, artifacts and events that drive adaptive delivery.

Explore the foundations of scrum, including empiricism, lean thinking, and the pillars of transparency, inspection, and adaptation, to deliver value with agile teamwork and continuous improvement.

Explore scrum artifacts and commitments, including the product backlog, sprint backlog, and increment, and learn how sprint planning and the definition of done drive progress toward the sprint goal.

Learn the roles and dynamics of an agile scrum team, the product owner, developers, and the Scrum Master, focusing on collaboration, collective accountability, and delivering a single objective.

Developers drive the creation and delivery of product increments in Scrum by translating requirements into features, planning the sprint backlog, and delivering with quality per the definition of done.

The product owner drives value in scrum by defining the product vision, prioritizing backlog items, ensuring transparency, and aligning stakeholder needs with the development team.

Lead and coach teams to implement Scrum per the Scrum Guide, educate stakeholders on principles, events, artifacts, and backlog priorities, and drive continuous improvement through retrospectives and timeboxed events.

Master how to run effective sprints in scrum, including planning, daily standups, reviews, and backlog refinement, to deliver consistent increments and data-driven forecasting.

Describe how a sprint functions as the heartbeat of Scrum, turning ideas into a potentially shippable increment and hosting planning, daily stand-ups, reviews, and retrospectives.

Inspect, adapt, and maintain agility through structured scrum events like daily scrum, sprint planning, sprint review, and sprint retrospective, ensuring transparency and continuous improvement.

Explore the scaled agile framework (SAFe) across portfolio, ART, and team levels, detailing roles, epics, blue and red stories, two-week iterations, and PI planning to deliver customer value.

Explore how the Scaled Agile Framework provides free, accessible resources on product management, the product owner, customer centricity, and backlog-driven roadmaps.

Implement the scrum framework at the team level within SAFe by prioritizing the team backlog, planning iterations, and delivering features through daily standups, reviews, releases, and retrospectives.

Explore the Safe framework's agile roles—product owner, Scrum Master (team coach), and developers—and how cross-functional, self-organizing teams use Scrum or Kanban to deliver customer value within a flat, accountable structure.

Facilitate program increment planning to align agile release trains with objectives, guide backlog breakdown, resolve dependencies, and foster high-performing teams for value delivery.

Translate goals into actionable user stories and prioritize backlog in SAFe to guide development. Advocate for the customer, collaborate with product management, and gather continuous feedback to deliver value.

Conduct market research to identify trends and competitor strategies, understand users via interviews and surveys, build customer relationships, and define a strategy and backlog that deliver value.

Navigate the key iteration level events, including iteration planning, team sync, iteration review, backlog refinement, and iteration retrospective, to align goals, gather stakeholder feedback, and continuously improve agile development.

Identify and decompose epics into features and enablers within the SAFe framework, specify benefit hypotheses and acceptance criteria, and align work to a program increment.

Define a compelling product vision using a vision board to articulate long term goals, target groups, needs, key features, and business goals for agile product development.

Discover how the nine components of the business model canvas integrate with agile scrum and product management to align value with customer needs.

Identify Uber’s customer segments: riders and drivers, and outline the on-demand value proposition with real-time tracking, cashless payments, and safe, reliable rides.