Professional Scrum Foundations
Delivery Options
- Customized Onsite Training (2 days): Request a Proposal
Class Description
Class Overview
This Professional Scrum Foundations training solidifies the core principles of Scrum for individuals or teams.
Attendees are equipped to get started with Scrum, to sustain successful habits, and to avoid common Scrum pitfalls. Students learn the basics of Scrum and how to implement Scrum effectively and keep their team practicing healthy behaviors.
PSF is appropriate for anyone working on or with a Scrum Team. The course is especially well suited to companies or teams investigating how to use Scrum, those who are currently struggling with ineffective Scrum, or those beginning to utilize Scrum in their development environment. This training ensures everyone in attendance is prepared to begin effectively using Scrum as a Team member.
Class Goals
- This training deliberately addresses common challenges teams will face in their Scrum adoption by equipping students to mitigate threats that can derail Scrum in some organizations, including:
- Learn to to mitigate the threats of Flexible Timeboxes.
- Learn to to mitigate the threat of delaying bug fixes.
- Learn to to mitigate the threat of unclear definitions of done.
- Learn to to mitigate the threat of measuring effort rather than achievement.
- Learn to to mitigate the threat of subconscious trending towards waterfall.
- Learn to to mitigate the threat of unproductive retrospectives.
- Learn to to mitigate the threat of Ineffective Daily Scrum meetings.
- Learn to to mitigate the threat of poorly structured Backlogs.
- Learn to to mitigate the threat of ambiguous or ineffective requirements.
- Learn to to mitigate the threat of Uncommitted Scrum Team members.
- Learn to to mitigate the threat of Ad-hoc work requests.
- Be prepared to pass the industry standard Professional Scrum Master I assessment (PSM I) from Scrum.org.
Class Outline
- The Scrum Framework
- Scrum software development framework
- Roles and responsibilities
- Principles
- Artifacts
- Events and time boxes
- Rules
- Customs
- Scrum software development framework
- Introducing Scrum and Agile
- The origins of Scrum
- Misconceptions of the framework
- The value that Scrum provides
- An exploration of self-organization as a power tool for increasing productivity
- Scrum Planning
- Planning releases
- Managing Product Backlogs
- Keeping Sprints on track
- Maintain healthy team behaviors
- Discover, express, and decompose requirements as Backlog Items using proven techniques
- Keeping Scrum Healthy
- Common missteps teams make when adopting Scrum and strategies to avoid them
- Typical patterns/anti-patterns
- Getting Started
- Plan and prepare to actually be effective with Scrum immediately
Class Materials
Each student in our Live Online and our Onsite classes receives a comprehensive set of materials, including course notes and all the class examples.
Class Prerequisites
Experience in the following areas is required:
- Involvement with a project that builds or enhances a product.
Technical Requirements
Our computer technical requirements and setup process is easy, with support just a click away.
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