Follow-on Courses:

• Agile for Executives
  
• Collaborating & Communicating Agile Requirements
  
• Agile Testing
  

1. Agile Thinking

• How Manufacturing has Influenced Software Development
• The Origins of Agile Thinking
• The Agile Manifesto
• The Complexity of Projects
• Theoretical vs. Empirical Processes Overview
• The ''Iron Triangle'' of Project Management

2. The Scrum Framework

• The Different Scrum Roles
• Chickens and Pigs
• Iterative Development vs. Waterfall
• Self-Management Concepts
• Full Disclosure and Visibility
• The Scrum Framework Overview

3. Implementation Considerations

• Traditional vs. Agile Methods Overview
• Scrum: The Silver Bullet
• The Agile Skeleton
• A Scrum Launch Checklist

4. Scrum Roles

• The Team Member
• The Product Owner
• The Scrum Master

5. The Scrum Team Explored

• The Agile Heart
• Bruce Tuckman''s Team Life Cycle
• Patrick Lencioni''s Five Dysfunctions of a Team
• Team Ground Rules
• Getting Human Resources Involved
• The Impact of Project Switching
• The MetaScrum
• The Scrum of Scrums
• The Importance of knowing When Software Is ''Done''
• Internal Outsourcing

6. Agile Estimating and Planning

• Product Backlog Features
• Relative Weighted Prioritization
• Prioritizing Our Time
• User Stories
• Relative Effort
• Velocity
• Planning Poker and Story Points
• Ideal Team Days
• Team Capacity
• Projecting a Schedule
• Why Plan in an Agile Environment?

7. The Product Owner: Extracting Value

• The Priority Guide
• Product Backlog Refactoring
• Productivity Drag Factors
• Fixed Price/Date Contracts
• Release Management
• Earned Value Management

8. The ScrumMaster Explored

• The ScrumMaster Aura
• Characteristics of a ScrumMaster Candidate
• The Difficulties of Being a ScrumMaster
• A Day in the Life of a ScrumMaster
• The Importance of Listening
• Common Sense

9. Meetings and Artifacts Reference Material

• A Chart of Scrum Meetings
• The Product Backlog
• Sprint Planning
• The Sprint Backlog
• The Sprint
• The Daily Scrum
• The Sprint Demo/Review
• Why Plan?
• The Ideal Team Day
• Scrum Tools

10. Advanced Considerations and Reference Material

• Conflict Management
• Different Types of Sprints
• The ScrumMaster of the Scrum-of-Scrums
• Metrics
• Dispersed Teams
• Scaling
• Developing Architecture
• Stage Gate/Milestone Driven Development
• Inter- and Intra-Project Dependencies
• Task Boards, Project Boards
• Scrum and CMM, ''Traditional'' XP

Exercises:

Exercise 1: The ''Art of the Possible''

Learn how small changes in behavior can have a large impact on productivity.Turn your thinking towards new ideas and a willingness to change for the better.

Exercise 2: Integrity at a Fast-Food Restaurant

During this exercise you''ll review various options regarding an employee facedwith a difficult situation. The importance of providing high-quality products toyour customers will be explored.

Exercise 3: Understanding Customer Expectations

This exercise is the beginning of an extended exercise involving agileestimating and planning. During this first portion of the exercise, you''ll workwith a fictional customer who has a very demanding schedule and understand howyour assessment of project work plays a significant role in customer satisfaction.

Exercise 4: The 59-Minute Scrum Simulation

This popular exposure to Scrum asks us to work on a short project that lasts forjust 59 minutes! Walk through all of the key steps under the Scrum framework asyou work in project teams to deliver a new product.