Accelerating Agile Development for Scrum Teams (Course 1812)

Reviewing Agile Development and the Scrum Framework

• Realizing the strategic role of the Product Owner
• Treating the Product Backlog order as the critical path
• Building better processes through Scrum

Growing Agile Teams with Proper Methodology

Developing coaching skills

• Applying different Agile coaching styles
• Climbing the Shu-Ha-Ri ladder of attainment
• Practicing servant-leadership

Achieving continuous improvement

• Prioritizing business value as the primary concern
• Emphasizing Scrum's self-management versus the approach of other Agile methodologies

Organizing around value-driven software

• Reinforcing the strategic role of the Product Owner
• Ordering the Product Backlog dynamically to determine the project's critical path
• Sniffing out bad "smells" in Scrum Teams

Delivering High Performance with Agile Team Training

Employing advanced team practices

• Distilling requirements with Acceptance Test Driven Development (ATDD)
• Designing products through Test Driven Development (TDD)
• Integrating functional increments continuously

Scaling Agile development

• Coordinating the work of multiple teams
• Applying Continuous Integration (CI) for large projects

Accelerating organizational change

• Exposing dysfunctions in the software development process
• Driving change through the Scrum Master role

Managing Backlogs

Prioritizing product requirements

• Separating concerns with value propositions
• Organizing Epics and Stories
• Story-Mapping to visualize backlog

Slicing and dicing Stories

• Planning releases with Minimal Marketable Features (MMF)
• Characterizing a well-formed Product Backlog
• Avoiding "Story Card Hell"

Streamlining Team Progress with Lean Thinking

Maximizing the amount of "work not done"

• Thinking Lean to eliminate waste
• Comparing Lean and Kanban to Scrum
• Identifying opportunities to eliminate rework

Implementing Lean thinking

• Prioritizing resources with Agile portfolio management
• Visualizing throughput with Cumulative Flow Diagrams
• Reallocating resources to eliminate bottlenecks

Improving and Measuring Team Performance

Assessing agility

• Measuring the delivery of business value
• Defining team performance
• Selecting metrics that support self-management

Implementing improvement through Agile development process

• Creating Improvement Backlogs
• Tracking the removal of impediments
• Developing a momentum for success

Planning for External Dependencies

Resourcing projects

• Integrating contractors into Scrum teams
• Outsourcing to third parties
• Running geographically dispersed teams

Relating to external constraints

• Mapping external dependencies
• Addressing the slow-moving infrastructure team issue
• Working with deployment teams

Generalizing Scrum in the Wider Organization

Scaling Scrum

• Gaining support for Scrum
• Creating Agility assessments
• Addressing impediments at the enterprise level

Anyone interested in Agile development, methodology or processes who needs Scrum-focused Agile training. This includes IT managers, project managers, business analysts, software developers, QA specialists and anyone involved in or impacted by the software development process.