
Welcome to this course which will give you all the knowledge required to successfully work within a scrum environment. The course is aimed at any individual who is interested in learning about Scrum. Whether that's the most senior manager or most junior member of the team.
This course has one main goal: Prepare students to sit and pass the Professional Scrum Master Assessment PSM1.
The course will naturally follow the flow of the scrum guide, which can be downloaded below. You can also view the scrum guide by following the link provided.
The course will be be made up of the following content:
Introduction to Agile & Scrum
- When and how agile was formed
- Focus of agile
Agile vs Waterfall
In this section we will look at what Agile and Waterfall are and how they differ. We will go into detail around the following:
- What is Waterfall?
- What is Agile
- What are the differences?
- Is Agile always best?
- When may Waterfall still be effective?
Agile Values & Principles
This section will concentrate on the agile values and principles and we will focus on the following:
- Agile Manifesto
- Agile Values
- 12 Agile Principles
What is Scrum?
This section is where we will look at Scrum and will cover the following:
- Who created Scrum and when
- What is Scrum
- Scrum Definition
- Overview of the Scrum framework
Scrum Theory
Here we go into detail behind the Scrum Theory and the content will include:
- Foundations of Scrum
- Pillars of Scrum
- Scrum Artefacts & commitments
Scrum Values
Understanding and discussing the 5 values of scrum.
- What are the 5 values
- How are they depicted in the scrum guide
- How do these values fit into the scrum framework.
Scrum Team
Identifying the roles within a scrum team and how they most effectively work together.
- Roles & responsibilities of:
- Product Owner
- Scrum Master
- Developers
- What are cross functional teams
- What is meant by self-managing
- Servant leadership
Scrum Events
There are 5 key events in Scrum. We will look at each in detail. These include:
- The Sprint
- Sprint Planning
- Daily Scrum
- Sprint Review
- Sprint Retrospective
Scrum Artefacts
Although previously mentioned, This section will pay close attention to the Scrum Artefacts and the commitments within each.
- Product Backlog
- Sprint Backlog
- Increment
Additional Content
As Scrum is a framework, it can fit into most Organisations current practices. This additional content will give you an understanding of what can be used alongside Scrum. This includes:
- Burn down charts
- Control Charts
- Cycle & Lead Times
- Impact Mapping
- Story Mapping
- Definition of Ready
Plus other training materials and access to our free Scrum App! All of this bonus content will be sent after completing the course.
This section looks into the creation of Agile & Scrum. We identify what the purpose of creating Agile and Scrum was and what they were trying to solve or change over more commonly used Waterfall methods.
A brief look at where and when Agile was created and the reasoning behind it's creation.
Introduction to section 3. Agile vs Waterfall.
Here we look at both Waterfall and Agile methodologies and frameworks. We will give the student an introduction to both and answer the following questions:
- What is Waterfall?
- What is Agile?
- What are the differences?
- Is Agile always best?
- When would Waterfall still be effective?
By the end of the lesson, you should have a good understanding of the key differences.
Introduction to this section.
In this section we look into the Agile Manifesto and the 12 Principles.
We learn what the creators of Agile value and the thoughts and reasoning behind the principles.
Introduction to this section.
So what is Scrum? Who created it? Why was it created? How is it done? are just some of the questions we aim to answer in this section.
In this section we will look into scrum theory. Focusing on the foundations of scrum and the three pillars.
Scrum is founded on Empiricism and Lean Thinking. We look into these along with the 3 pillars of Transparency, Inspection & Adaptation in more detail.
The Sprint is the container for all the Scum events. In this video you will learn about the Sprint and it's role within Scrum.
Sprint Planning is the first event within a Sprint. In this video you will learn about all the aspects of Sprint Planning within Scrum.
The Daily Scrum is a periodic, short planning event for the Developers. In this video we will go into detail around the Daily Scrum and it's place with Scrum.
The Sprint Review is a time to inspect and adapt. In this video we look into the Sprint Review and it's place within Scrum.
The Sprint Retrospective is the time for the Scrum Team to inspect themselves and look for any adaptations to their current approach to individuals, interactions, processes, tools, and their Definition of Done.
In this Lecture, you will learn about the Scrum Artefacts and the commitments to each of them.
Starting with an introduction to agile, we will explain all the details and background of how Agile came to be, combined with comparisons against traditional project management methodologies such as Prince2.
We shall then study Scrum in detail, working our way through the Scrum Guide with practice tests and assignments throughout to test confirm your knowledge.
You will cover topics on:
- Scrum Theory
- Scrum Values
- Scrum team
- Scrum Events
- Scrum Artefacts
- and much more...
Finally, we will provide you to additional content which will include practices to support you in becoming the most effective Scrum Master you can be. These will be sent to you separately.
This course is not affiliated with nor endorsed by Scrum. org This has been created by RightSource Ltd.
Scrum Guide History
Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland first co-presented Scrum at the OOPSLA Conference in 1995. It essentially documented the learning that Ken and Jeff gained over the previous few years and made public the first formal definition of Scrum.
The Scrum Guide documents Scrum as developed, evolved, and sustained for 30-plus years by Jeff Sutherland and Ken Schwaber. Other sources provide patterns, processes, and insights that complement the Scrum framework. These may increase productivity, value, creativity, and satisfaction with the results.
The complete history of Scrum is described elsewhere. To honor the first places where it was tried and proven, we recognize Individual Inc., Newspage, Fidelity Investments, and IDX (now GE Medical).