Master Agile with Scrum and Kanban - A Practical Guide

Explore the twelve agile principles from the manifesto, including early and continuous delivery, embracing change, frequent working software, collaboration, motivated teams, face-to-face communication, sustainable development, and regular reflection and adjustment.

Examine the four Agile Manifesto values: individuals and interactions over processes and tools; working software over documentation; customer collaboration over contract negotiation; and responding to change over following a plan.

Discover how agile software development delivers faster time to market, adaptability to changing needs, and continuous improvement through iterative releases.

From an ING Bank case study, this lecture shows how adopting agile increases delivery speed by 30% and boosts customer satisfaction, reducing time to market compared with the waterfall model.

Explore why agile is needed using a bank mobile app example, showing rapid 2–4 week iterations, quick customer feedback, and adapting to changing requirements and regulations away from waterfall.

Learn the scrum framework within agile methodologies, including roles, ceremonies, and artifacts like product backlog, sprint backlog, and increment, and how 1–2 week sprints enable planning and reviews.

Explore the Kanban framework in agile, using a visual Kanban board with to do, in progress, and done columns, WIP limits, and a pull-based, continuous delivery approach.

Master the product owner role in agile scrum by managing the backlog and maximizing value, while collaborating with stakeholders to prioritize features that matter.

Learn how a scrum master facilitates agile ceremonies, removes impediments, and coaches teams in agile practices to deliver value through collaboration and continuous improvement.

Learn the development team's roles in agile scrum: build the product, ensure quality, deliver incremental work in sprints, and adapt to change with product owner and scrum master.

Explore agile project management tools, including Jira, Trello, and Asana, and learn how task management, sprint planning, collaboration, backlog management, and progress tracking foster adaptability and on-time delivery.

Learn how to set up a scrum project in Jira, create epics, user stories, tasks, sprints, and dashboards to manage agile work and roles.

Explore centralized versus distributed version control systems in agile projects, including cvcs and dvcs, and how Git and GitHub enable push and pull across local and remote repositories.

Understand how version control systems track changes over time, enable collaboration, merge changes, revert fixes, back up code, manage branches, support code reviews, and CI/CD.

Learn to set up a distributed version control system with git and GitHub, create local and remote repositories, and perform push and pull operations across Mac, Windows, and Linux.

Create a remote GitHub repository, push code, and enable team access with pull. Learn to sign up, initialize git, set origin, commit, push, pull, and use a personal access token.

Master continuous integration, delivery, and deployment to automate building, testing, and deploying software, enabling frequent, reliable releases with tools like Jira, GitHub, Docker, and Kubernetes.

Automation of testing and deployment reduces manual work, delivering quick feedback, speeding releases, reducing risks, and boosting collaboration among developers.

Learn how to use Jira to manage agile projects with scrum, backlog, epics, user stories, tasks, and sprints, including creating projects, assigning story points, and tracking progress.

Plan agile releases through release planning with a level roadmap. Define six month goals and features like improved search and personalized product recommendation, with milestones, risk mitigation, and stakeholder feedback.

Plan sprints by selecting one or two tasks from release planning to complete in 1–4 weeks, defining ownership, goals, and expected outcomes like an improved search feature.

Learn how agile estimation uses story points and planning poker to measure task complexity and effort, using fibonacci-based points and consensus to guide sprint planning.

Master agile with Scrum and Kanban provides a focus on velocity, a key agile metric that measures how many story points a team completes per sprint, aiding future sprint planning.

The burndown chart tracks remaining story points over days, comparing planned to actual progress to show whether the team is on track to complete the sprint.

See how burn up charts track completed work against estimates in agile projects, using story points and days to show progress and highlight scope changes.

Identify and manage risks in agile projects by assessing likelihood and impact, planning backup strategies with dummy data, and monitoring issues to prevent missed deadlines.

Identify risks in an agile project using brainstorming, retrospective reviews, SWOT analysis, risk checklists, user story mapping, and customer feedback, guiding continuous risk management across sprints.

Learn how to assess and manage risks in agile projects by scoring likelihood and impact, using risk matrices, sprint reviews, and expert judgment to prioritize high-risk items.

Implement risk handling with risk mitigation planning, daily stand-up discussions, and risk burndown charts to track likelihood and impact; adopt pivoting when needed and prepare contingency plans with clear owners.

Master shift left testing in agile and behavior-driven development by starting testing in the requirements phase and using automated tests to catch defects early.

Explore shift-left testing by focusing on continuous testing and test automation, running tests on every code change to speed delivery and reduce risk.

Adopt shift-left testing to detect issues early, gain faster feedback, maintain consistent quality, and boost efficiency through test automation across the software development life cycle.

Learn how scaling agile for large projects coordinates multiple teams with specialized areas, each following agile practices and aligning to achieve the overall objective.

Explore how scaled agile framework coordinates multiple teams across a large organization to deliver value quickly, including the agile release train and four levels (team, program, large solution, portfolio).

Identify and overcome key agile adoption challenges, including resistance to change, aligning cross-functional teams, and maintaining quality through training, daily stand-ups, sprint planning, automated testing, and retrospectives.