Scrum & Agile Masterclass: Become a Scrum Master; PSM1 Test

We will talk about the difference between "Agile" and "Scrum" and why it is so important to really understand the difference.

We will also briefly discuss how communication in a lot of projects works and why it oftentimes causes problems

We will talk about the reason why agile approaches like Scrum have been so hyped and about the major advantages and benefits they promise

We will learn how to differentiate between an incrementell and an iterative approach and discuss the two ideas that make Scrum so unique

We will talk about general characteristics of successful projects and compare this to the "Agile Manifesto". Are there any similiarities, or is the "Agile Manifesto" just another theoretical concept?

Learn how you can introduce the "Agile Manifesto" to your team and how to generate acceptance & support for agility & Scrum

The "Agile Manifesto" is accompanied by 12 principles. We´ll discuss the most important one´s to get a better understanding of what "agile" is all about

In this lesson we will talk about the "MVP" - the minimal viable product and its significance to Scrum

To make Scrum work and to create really successful Teams, teams should internalize some agile values

What conditions are required to make teams strive? What framework do they need to produce great results and to face new challenges without fear?

Scrum doesn´t "know" any hierarchies, so how do we actually distribute tasks? Who is in charge of getting work done?

Basic Project Management fundamentals in comparison: Why is "agile" so fundamentally different?

How do traditional and agile (Scrum) projects work? Which phases do exist?

Agile (Scrum) projects are often considered to be "faster". What does it actually mean and is it true?

Is Scrum the best approach for all projects and should it completely replace traditional Project Management approaches? What criteria should i watch for, when deciding on how to choose my approach?

We will address some common misconceptions and rumours to get a better understanding of Scrum & Agile, so that you know how to reply to your colleagues

We will look at the entire Scrum process and how roles, artifacts and events work together, before we dive deeper into each section

What are requirements and User-Stories? Which layers do exist and why is it important to differentiate?

We take a closer look at "Epics" and "User-Stories", the most important categories of requirements for our Scrum Project and learn how to use them in our Scrum project.

Learn how to write great User-Stories and get introduced to a real life template that helped my projects to gather all the important information for well defined User-Stories

I´m sharing my personal experience on creating User-Stories

The "Definition of Ready" is one of the most underestimated Tools in Scrum.
I´ll explain why you should use it

Aside from the "Definition of Ready", the "Definition of Done" is also an extremely helpful tool that you should introduce to your project

In this lesson i´ll share a great and fun way to experience the challenges of creating great User-Stories so that your team knows how to avoid common mistakes

Let´s take a look back on the process and where the Roles come into play

Introduction to the Product Owner role incl. responsibilities, required skills and tasks

Introduction to the Scrum Master role incl. responsibilities, required skills and tasks

Introduction to the Development Team role incl. responsibilities, required skills and tasks

Today´s projects oftentimes depend on external support and experts. This usually works well for Scrum, but some roles shouldn´t necessarily be occupied by external companies.

Can you assign tasks and responsibilities correctly to each role?

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Let´s take a look back on the process and where the Artifacts come into play

Deep dive into the Product Backlog

Deep dive into the Sprint Backlog

Deep dive into the Product Increment

Let´s take a look back on the process and where the Events come into play

According to the Scrum guide the Product Backlog Refinement is not an official "Event", yet it is very important for our project and should be understood.

Deep Dive into the Sprint

Deep Dive into the Sprint Planning

Deep Dive into the Daily Standup or Daily Scrum

Deep Dive into the Sprint Review

In this lesson i will show you a little template for a weekly-planner that allows the planning of your Scrum Events.
I will also address how i usually try to schedule my events in a 2 week Sprint

Introduction on some fundamentals that are important for proper estimations and the difference to traditional estimations

We´ll look into some examples of relative estimations

Deep Dive into Swimlane Planning, a method for quickly estimating a lot of User-Stories in the early phases of your project

Deep Dive into Planning Poker, probably the most popular method for estimating User-Stories throughout your project

In this lesson i´ll show a way on how to experience Planning Poker with your team and which pitfalls you could include to increase the learning

Differentiation of Velocity and Capacity with focus on Velocity

In this lessons you will learn how to calculate your team´s capacity and how to use it for future Sprints with the previously calculated Sprint Velocity

In this lesson i will show you a template that helps with your Sprint capacity planning and forecasting the number of Story Points your Development Team can probably deliver in the next Sprint

What are Kanban Boards and how can they help us to monitor our Sprint?

What are Burndown Charts and how can they help us to monitor our Sprint, Release or overall project?

In this lesson i´ll present several Burndown Charts to you and we will discuss what they can tell us and what that might mean for your project

We´ll discuss three popular approaches for scaling Scrum and for which projects or situation they might be suited

We take a slightly deeper look into Scrum of Scrums

We take a slightly deeper look into Large Scaled Scrum (LeSS)

We take a slightly deeper look into Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)