Course Description

Agile has quickly become one of the most popular and practical ways to create outstanding software.

However, agile teams and organizations find out that with agile, building the wrong things faster is very possible if you leave out key components like; an understanding of the “real” requirements, the development of a “high-performing team, or eventual backsliding to a waterfall approach.

This 2-day workshop puts the agile team through their paces, by showing them how to conduct the five (5) scrum ceremonies, while simulating key activities within a sprint, all while using their own project as a case study for the exercises.

The Agile Scrum team will get to experience the leading Scrum methodology, by using hands-on exercises and testing the basic premise and techniques behind agility.

Learning Objectives:

• Utilize "real-life" product/project during the workshop exercises

• Learn the tricks of high-performing Scrum teams

• Experience an end-to-end Scrum process (while performing the 5 Scrum ceremonies)

• Understand each of the individual roles on a scrum team, and how to work collaboratively as part of the team

• Define the Product Backlog (with User Stories) and develop a Release Plan for the entire product/project

• Use Planning Poker to develop estimates (Course- and Fine-grain)

• Define and assign tasks for the 1st Sprint

• Learn how to handle unplanned interruptions

• Reduce the time it takes for Agile adoption by training the entire team with the help of an Agile expert

• Avoid costly mistakes made by inexperienced Agile teams on the first project

• Fast track your project by developing your Scrum Board in the classroom