AGILE - SCRUM MASTER TRAINING COURSE – 3 DAYS

AGILE TRAINING WITH SCRUM FRAMEWORK – 3 DAYS FULL COURSE OUTLINES

Function: AGILE Project Management, Scrum, Agile Frameworks
Location: Any
Course : General Context/ Certification
Trainer: Pratap Kumar Sahoo, SCT,PMI-ACP,CSP

I) Training Summary

Key Objective / Purpose of the Training:

The incumbent would be useful for building the knowledge level for all associates who look to
enhance and adopt AGILE Practices and can implement on AGILE project planning & execution
across all business unit who offer service to customer. This aim at enhancing the value for
Service Delivery unit by fostering AGILE best practices.

Key Audience:
Agile Practitioner, Agile Evangelist, Traditional Project Manager working in AGILE Platform,
Leadership Team driving AGILE across organization, Project and program managers, software
architects, systems analysts, team leaders, developers and anyone interested in applying Scrum
and Agile methodologies.

Delivery Method:
Instructor-Led-Training

Course Duration:
24 Hour (3 Days)

II) Learning Outcome

INTRODUCTION

Introduction to Agile Project Management

• Articulating Agile values and principles
• Comparing Agile with traditional, masterplan methods
• Appreciating Agile development as value-driven delivery

Fundamentals of the Scrum Framework

• Dealing with uncertainty and risk
• Recognizing Scrum as a framework for self-managing teams
• Locating Scrum in empirical process control theory
• Revealing systematically the issues in product development

Identifying the roles and their responsibilities

• Ordering requirements and insuring Return on Investment through the Product Owner
• Establishing the Scrum Master as a fundamentally new management role
• Shaping the self-managed Development Team

Managing product delivery

• Creating a Product Backlog as a list of requirements and technical issues
• Iterating development through cycles of one month or less
• Time boxing to establish a regular rhythm of energized work

Tools for tracking and monitoring a project

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• Capturing user needs as stories

• Using capacity-based planning to plan progress
• Measuring estimated effort with story points

Product Planning with Agile

Focusing on business value

• Delivering business-valued functionality with Sprint Planning
• Collaborating with customers to manage risk and uncertainty
• Demonstrating implemented features as "potentially shippable increments"

Identifying features for development in an iteration

• Envisioning value through Product Chartering
• Concretizing a Sprint Goal through feature selection
• Identifying development tasks in the Sprint Backlog

Fostering Self-Management within the development team

Creating the optimal working environment

• Staffing the Development Team
• Protecting the team from outside interference
• Making progress visible and open

Transitioning to self-management
• Facilitating cross-functionality and team learning
• Empowering the team to control their own development process
• Adapting management roles external to the development effort

Running iterations
• Inspecting and adapting through the Daily Scrum
• Producing a quality-assured, business-valued product
• Ensuring standards through an agreed Definition of Done

Managing Change

Generating rapid feedback through Sprint Reviews

• Demonstrating completed functionality to the customer
• Fostering collaboration with stakeholders through discussion of "done" increments
• Recalibrating estimates based on experience

Reviewing iterations through Sprint Retrospectives

• Revising team behavior on the basis of lessons learned
• Continuously improving by embedding new knowledge

Applying Agile throughout Your Organization

Scaling for large projects

• Working with large Product Backlogs
• Scaling the Product Owner role
• Coordinating component teams with Scrum Development Teams

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Managing distributed development

• Planning Releases and Sprints for distributed teams
• Ensuring effective communication across time zones
• Holding distributed Sprint Reviews

Establishing momentum for successful adoption of Agile methods

• Assessing the organization's readiness for Agile adoption
• Creating an Improvement Backlog for ongoing improvement

Detail Course Outlines:

• Module 1: Introduction to Agile- Scrum Project Management
• Why Agile, Advantages
• How to be Agile
• Agile Manifesto
• Agile Values & Principles
• Agile Scrum Frameworks
• 3 Roles
• 3 Ceremonies
• 3 Artifacts
• Agile Project Life Cycle
• Scrum Life Cycle
• Agile Estimation
• Agile Metrics – Performance Reporting
• Agile Project Monitoring & Controlling

• Module 2: Agile Planning

• Adaptive Planning & Progressive Elaboration
• Multiple level of planning
• Time boxed Planning
• User Story
• Product Backlog
• User Story Mapping
• SMART Model of Task
• Epic Theme
• Agile Spike
• Release Planning
• Iteration Planning
• Requirement Prioritization Technique – MOSCOW Model
• INVEST Model of a user story, DEEP Model

• Module 3: Scrum Metrics & Estimation

• Estimation Techniques, Affinity / Delphi / Wideband Delphi / Relative Size / Story Point
• Planning Poker Game – Story Points Estimation
• Velocity Metrics, Velocity & Cycle Time
• Test Driven Development – TDD
• Acceptance Test Driven Development – ATDD
• DOD – Definition of Done
• DOR – Definition of Readiness
• Acceptance Criteria
• Incremental Delivery

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• Continuous Integration
• Value Based Prioritization, MMF, MVP

• Module 4: Scrum – Monitoring & Controlling:

• Burn Down & Burn up Chart
• CFD – Cumulative Flow Diagram
• CFD – Little’s Rule / Process Tailoring
• WIP Limit
• Kanban Board
• Retrospectives
• Retrospective Conductive Methods

• Module 5: Scrum Team Communication

• Scrum Cross Functional Team
• Agile Project Communication Method
• Stakeholder Managements
• Information Radiators & Collocated team space concept
• Distributed Agile
• Daily Standup Meeting
• Agile Project Management Tools
• Handshake Mechanism between On-shore & Off-shore
• Module 6: Scrum Roles & Responsibility
• Scrum Master
• Product Owner
• Scrum Core Team
• Project Sponsor
• Cross Functional Team
• Module 7: Soft Skill Management
• Active Listening
• Active Communication
• Emotional Intelligence
• Adaptive Leadership
• Servant Leadership
• Conflict Resolution
• Negotiation Technique
• Brainstorming Techniques
• Module 8: TEST FRIVEN DEVELOPMENT – TDD, BDD & Agile Engineering Practices
• Module 9: JIRA Tool Overview (Overview)

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What Is a Project
What Is a Project
What Is Workflow
What Is an Issue and Issue
Types?
Roles in JIRA
REPORTS
Generating Reports in JIRA
Workload Pie Chart Report
User Workload Report
Version Workload Report
Time Tracking Report
Single Level Group by Report
Created Vs Resolved Issues
Report
Resolution Time Report
Pie Chart Report, Average Age
Recently Created Issues Report
II) Specification:
a) Essential Qualifications: NA
b) Requisite Skills:
• Technical NA
• Non-Technical
AGILE - SCRUM MASTER TRAINING COURSE – 3 DAYS
JIRA Agile Boards
Scrum Boards
Kanban Boards
For Scrum Teams:
Creating an Epic / What Is an
Epic
Adding an Issue to an Epic
Adding an Issue to A Sprint
Adding Sprint Issues to A
Specific Version
Starting an Sprint
Enabling Ranking
Estimation
Closing A Sprint
Analyzing JIRA Agile Charts/
Reports
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Cloning an Issue
Commenting On an Issue
Creating an Issue
Creating Issues Using The CSV
Importer
Editing an Issue
Emailing an Issue
Labelling an Issue
Linking Issues
Logging Work On an Issue
Modifying Multiple (Bulk)
Issues
Moving an Issue
Scheduling an Issue
Setting Security On an Issue
Viewing an Issue’s Change
History
Watching and Voting On An
Issue