Agile Project Management with Scrum

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Who should attend?

This 2 day course is suitable for any IT professionals who are interested in implementing Iterative Agile and Scrum methodologies to manage software development. This course is particularly suited to project managers, team leaders, developers and customers of software development wishing to have a stake holding in the development process.

Why Agile?

• Comparison of iterative methodologies
• Why things go wrong
• The Agile approach
• What is Scrum?
• Pigs and chickens

Product owner

• The customer representative
• Prioritizing product requirements
• Writing effective stories
• Acceptance criteria
• Negotiating sprint contents
• Group exercise to produce customer requirements and write stories based on the requirements

The sprint

• Sprint backlog
• Sprint planning: what to do
• Sprint planning how to do it
• What happens during a sprint
• Burn down charts
• Group exercise to plan a sprint

Scrum Master

• Implementing Scrum
• Ensuring proper practices
• Maintaining documentation
• Stand-up meetings
• When to pair program
• Group exercise to implement Scrum

Finishing a sprint

• Scrum review meeting
• Scrum retrospective meeting
• Releasing an iteration
• Group exercise the review a sprint

Is Agile and Scrum for you?

• Review of the Scrum process
• Comparison with other methodologies
• Benefits of pair programming
• Group exercise to discuss which aspects of Agile and Scrum can be applied to attendees organisations