Agile Scrum for Beginners + Scrum Master Certification PSM 1

Discover how time boxes set fixed durations for Scrum events, prompting stop points and progress reviews, with sprint planning up to eight hours and daily scrums at 15 minutes.

Deliver usable, done, and potentially releasable product increments in every sprint, and position the sprint as the heart of scrum with planning, daily scrum, review, and retrospective.

Sprint planning brings the entire scrum team together to decide what will be delivered and how, producing the sprint goal and sprint backlog from groomed product backlog items.

The development team decides how many sprint items to take on based on velocity and capacity, then plans by breaking items into tasks and estimating effort to meet sprint goal.

Learn how the sprint review brings the Scrum team and stakeholders together to inspect the increment, gather feedback, decide next steps, and adapt the product backlog to maximize sprint value.

The sprint retrospective is a three-hour Scrum team meeting to inspect last sprint, discuss what went well and what didn't, and plan improvements for the next sprint.

Explore sprint cancellation in agile, including product owner authority, why a sprint becomes obsolete due to market or technology changes, and completed items reviewed while incomplete items are re-estimated.

Learn the product owner's role as the sole backlog owner who maximizes value, represents customers, and bridges business and development by prioritizing clear, value-driven user stories and transparent backlog.

Explore the development team's role in scrum, selecting backlog items, turning them into features during sprints, with 3 to 9 members, no titles, and collective accountability.

Learn how the Scrum master promotes Scrum, coaches the team, and shields them from interruptions, ensuring timeboxed 15-minute daily scrums and controlled stakeholder interactions through the sprint review.

Learn how the Scrum Master supports the product owner by organizing the backlog items to maximize value and by facilitating daily Scrum, sprint review, and retrospective.

Enable the product owner and development team to refine backlog by adding details and time-cost estimates, clarifying requirements, and prioritizing items by importance, while keeping refinement to 10% of capacity.

Learn how release planning defines when a usable product is ready to release, choosing between a single increment or a series of increments guided by the product owner.

Learn how story points measure effort, size, and complexity for user stories in Scrum. Set a baseline, rank items, and apply linear, size, or Fibonacci scales to estimate work.

Learn Kanban as a visual framework for managing agile projects and master the Kanban board, from product backlog to to do, doing, and done, using cards for work items.

Identify definable work as project activity with clear processes and proven techniques. See how construction and information technology projects meet the criteria of clear scope, schedule, and cost.

Identify high uncertainty work, where solutions are new and exploratory, involving new product development and research-based projects, requiring experts to solve unique problems through iterations and prototypes.

Decide when to use predictive versus Agile by weighing definable work and well defined requirements against high uncertainty, changing scope, and evolving client needs.

Explore hybrid project management by combining predictive and agile approaches. Learn to plan with predictive methods while executing work with agile, and apply these methods either together or across parts.

Combine predictive planning with agile execution to manage hybrid projects, detailing scope, resources, schedule, budget, risks, and stakeholder engagement, while using product backlogs and sprints for execution.

Explore how ChatGPT, an AI tool by OpenAI and a large language model, acts as a smart assistant for information, research, and creative ideas to boost productivity.

Learn the essentials of prompts, prompt engineering, and best practices to craft clear, context-rich prompts for chatbots like ChatGPT, using specific language and action verbs.

Learn how to use ChatGPT to write and create documents efficiently by starting with a structured outline. Generate content for each section and customize tone, length, and details.

Learn to use ChatGPT to create user stories with clear acceptance criteria and priorities, illustrated by a grocery delivery app with browse, search, cart, and delivery features.

Learn how to use ChatGPT to draft professional emails for coworkers, clients, and management. Explore tone control, email templates, and types like status updates, meeting requests, and information requests.

Use ChatGPT to role play high pressure work scenarios—client meetings, negotiations, presentations, and handling customer complaints—to practice expressing ideas, handling objections, and boosting workplace communication confidence.

Learn to use ChatGPT as a personal virtual assistant for addressing work and personal problems in project management, with strategies on clear communication, SMART goals, agile methods, and sleep tips.