Complete Scrum Guide course – Most popular Agile-method 2024

Name: Complete Scrum Guide course – Most popular Agile-method 2024
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Meetings, Roles, Artifacts & all info to get ready for Professional Scrum Master certification (PSM) with expert advice

Created byDim Blinov

Last updated 9/2024

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What you'll learn

You'll get a Free 1-hour 1-1 Q&A live consultation after completing a paid course
4 downloadable pairs of Checklists on conducting Scrum meetings
Your spendings are safe! In you don't like the course, you can get your money back within 30 days
The most important info for PSM exam in just 2 hours of your time
Learn the philosophy, history, theory, and structure of Scrum, and how they help teams achieve goals and create value in complex environments.
Identify and describe the key elements of Scrum, incl. the Roles, Events, and Artifacts, and understand how they interact with each other.
Develop a deep understanding of the Empirical process that underlies Scrum, and the importance of its three pillars: transparency, inspection, and adaptation
Understad the Artifacts, incl. the Product backlog, Sprint backlog, and Increment, and the importance of commitments: the Product and Sprint Goals, and the DoD
Learn how to apply the Scrum framework in practice, incl. Planning Sprints, Daily Scrums, Sprint Reviews, and Retrospectives, and how to work with Stakeholders.

Course content

11 sections • 39 lectures • 2h 3m total length

Introduction 1 of 2 – Promo2:04
Discover Scrum, the most popular agile approach used by 87% of teams. Learn its roles, events, defects with commitments, values, and pillars, and download materials to prepare for Scrum.org certification.
Introduction 2 of 2 – If you haven't watched the Promo1:40
Introduction to the course and the topic. If you watched a promo video, you may skip this one.
About the Trainer – Why am I competent to tell you about Scrum?2:05
Meet an agile coach and Scrum master with 20+ years of hands-on experience. He explains Scrum, self-organization, continuous improvements, scaling product teams, and the single product owner.

Definition of Scrum – What is Scrum?1:12
Discover how Scrum acts as a lightweight framework guiding teams through adaptive solutions for complex problems, with a Scrum Master and product backlog delivering increments each sprint.
All elements of Scrum1:50
Explore the Scrum 353 framework—three accountabilities, five events, three artifacts, plus commitments, values, and empirical pillars, with bonus elements like backlog refinement and cross-functionality.
The logic and the sequence of this Course3:57
The course explains the Scrum framework’s logic and history, detailing the Scrum team, three accountabilities, five events, three artifacts, and roles like product owner, developers, and Scrum Master.
Basic information about Scrum

History of Scrum2:03
Trace the history of Scrum from its late 80s origins to the 2020 Scrum guide, highlighting Jeff Sutherland and Ken Weber and the evolution through the 1990s to 2010s.
Books about Scrum2:00
The content of the Scrum Guide and the borders of Scrum2:28
The scrum guide is the authoritative source for Scrum, defining an immutable framework where every element serves a purpose, and it hosts patterns and practices that fit within Scrum.
History and Borders of Scrum

Scrum is based on principles of Lean thinking and Empiricism3:28
Explore how Scrum blends empiricism and lean thinking to reduce waste, deliver working software early and often, and adapt through sprint reviews, planning, and product backlog decisions.
Empirical pillars: Transparency, Inspection & Adaptation4:47
Explore how transparency, inspection, and adaptation drive Scrum, anchored by the product backlog, Sprint backlog, and increment, and reinforced through Sprint planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective.
Dim's Scrum Tower – all elements of Scrum as building blocks1:36
Explore elements of the scrum tower, guided by lean thinking and empiricism, and see how values shape self-managing teams. Learn how sprints, backlogs, increments, and events drive transparency and adaptation.
Lean thinking and Empirical pillars of Transparency, Inspection and Adaptation

Scrum Team vol.1-2 – Cross-functional & Self-managing6:07
Discover how a cross-functional, self-managing Scrum team, comprising a product owner, developers, and a Scrum master, delivers value in focused sprints, with clear product goals and boundaries.
Scrum Team may be T-shaped, although, it is not prescribed by the Scrum Guide4:59
Scrum Team vol.3 – Scrum Team is Accountable4:40
Three accountabilities: product owner, developers, and the Scrum master bind a cross-functional, self-managing team accountable for valuable increments each sprint.
Scrum Values1:51
Discover how the five Scrum values—focus, openness, respect, commitment, and courage—guide the Scrum team toward achieving the sprint and product goals, fostering transparency, inspection, and adaptation.
Scrum Team, its characteristics and Values

Artifacts and Commitments within them (briefly)1:46
Discover how the three formal Scrum artifacts—the product backlog, sprint backlog, and increment—and their commitments drive transparency, focus, and progress through frequent inspection and adaptations.
Developers – team members committed to creating any aspect of the Increment2:47
Plan the sprint with developers on the scrum team, create the sprint backlog, and meet the definition of done to deliver a usable increment.
Sprint – an event, containing other events and all the work4:10
Explore how the sprint, scrum’s heartbeat, delivers a valuable increment within a fixed time box through five events: sprint planning, daily scrum, sprint review, sprint retrospective, and the sprint.
Artifacts and Commitments. Developers and Sprints

Product, its Owner and its Backlog vol. 14:57
Explore how the product, its owner, and the backlog drive value in Scrum, with the product owner accountable for maximizing value and maintaining a transparent, ordered backlog.
Product, Owner and Backlog vol. 2 – what if our Scrum Team becomes too large?2:17
When scrum teams grow larger, they share one product backlog, one product, one product owner, and one product goal, with a single definition of done and one set of increments.
Product Goal is a single objective and is in the Backlog2:23
Define a single product goal in the product backlog and have the product owner communicate it; use sprints and frequent inspections to deliver done, high-value increments.
PBIs and their refinement – PBR activity3:16
Define and refine product backlog items by detailing descriptions, order, and size, ensuring items are ready for sprint planning and can be completed within one sprint.
Why should a user story fit entirely into one sprint?8:25
Product, its Owner, Goal, Backlog, and refinement of its items

Events within the Sprint: Planning, Daily Scrum, Review, Retrospective3:03
Explore how scrum events drive transparency, inspection, and adaptation within a sprint, featuring planning, daily scrum, sprint review, and sprint retrospective, guided by the time box and a scrum master.
Qualities of an Effective meeting1:25
Master effective meetings by aligning on a clear goal and expected result, inviting only essential participants, keeping a strict schedule, starting on time, and ensuring actions are defined and followed.
Sprint Planning vol. 1/3 – Introduction1:50
Learn how sprint planning starts the sprint, timeboxes up to eight hours, and forms the sprint backlog while the Scrum team and product owner map items to the product goal.
Sprint Planning vol. 2/3 – three parts of it, and the Sprint Goal3:47
Learn how sprint planning defines a clear sprint goal and selects ready product backlog items for a focused sprint. Discover how developers forecast capacity, refine backlog, and plan work to deliver a valuable increment aligned with the definition of done.
Sprint Planning vol. 3/3 – Summary and Checklists2:10
Learn sprint planning essentials: map key product backlog items to the product goal, confirm a mandatory Scrum team, and align capacity and definition of done for an effective sprint backlog.
Planning the Sprint

Sprint Backlog and what can be changed in it3:42
Daily Scrum vol. 1 (main)3:40
Apply daily scrum to inspect progress toward the sprint goal and adapt the sprint backlog within a 15-minute timebox, empowering the developers as a self-managing team.
Daily Scrum vol. 2 – Three questions, Benefints, and Checklists3:50
Explore how the daily scrum centers the team on the sprint goal, applying the three questions and a checklist to build an actionable plan and improve self-management.
Daily Scrum vs Status meeting — what's the difference?2:48
Work in Sprints: changes in Backlog, Daily Scrums

Increment – 3rd Scrum artifact and the best way to always deliver value4:08
Learn how increments drive value in scrum, detailing how the cross-functional, self-managed team turns product backlog items into usable, valuable increments each sprint through planning, scrums, and reviews.
Definition of Done – commitment to quality of the Product Increment2:18
Define the definition of done as the formal description of the increment's quality, a commitment by developers that ensures product backlog items meet criteria before release and maintains sprint integrity.
Increments and their quality by Definition of Done

Requirements

No experience needed. You will learn everything you need to know.

Description

For current and future Scrum Masters, Product Owners and team members. In this course, you will master the Scrum framework, including its roles, events, artifacts, and values.

Scrum is a lightweight framework that helps people, teams, and organizations generate value through adaptive solutions for complex problems. This course is structured to provide you with a complete understanding of Scrum and how it works.

The Scrum Team creates a Product in Sprints. We will thoroughly discuss this statement throughout the course. You will learn about:

the history of Scrum, its foundation, and the 3 empirical pillars that support it.
The Scrum Team, its qualities, and the 5 values its members live by.
The Product and the heartbeat of Scrum – the Sprint, as a container for all the work the Team does.
3 artifacts and commitments.
The Product Owner role, the Product Backlog with the Product Goal, and the activity of Product Backlog Refinement.
The Developers and the Scrum Master accountabilities.
The Events (meetings) in Scrum, starting with the Sprint Planning event with the Sprint Backlog artifact and the Sprint Goal commitment.
The Daily Scrum events, the Increment of Product functionality with the Definition of Done as a commitment to quality, and the Sprint Review event.
Lastly, you will learn about the Sprint Retrospective event.

By the end of this course, you will have a complete understanding of Scrum and how to apply its process, elements, and principles to iteratively and incrementally create a Product in an uncertain environment.

Who this course is for:

Anyone interested in Scrum, whether you are completely new to it or have some experience but want to deepen your understanding.
Anyone who works in software development.
Scrum masters, Agile coaches, PMOs, Transformation consultants.
Project managers, Product managers, Delivery managers, Process managers.
Also, Business owners, Entrepreneurs, and anyone looking to improve their collaboration and problem-solving skills.

Complete Scrum Guide course – Most popular Agile-method 2024

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Course content

Hello and Welcome!3 lectures • 6min

Definition of Scrum and Course logic3 lectures • 7min

Scrum History, Books and Guide3 lectures • 7min

Scrum is based on Lean thinking and Empiricism3 lectures • 10min

Scrum Team creates Product in Sprints4 lectures • 18min

Scrum Artifacts and Commitments. Developers and Sprints3 lectures • 9min

Product is owned by Owner and described in Backlog5 lectures • 21min

Scrum Team plans Sprint and creare Sprint Backlog5 lectures • 12min

Developers create Increments in Sprints and inspect them at Sprint Review4 lectures • 14min

Increments and Definition of Done2 lectures • 6min

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