This course aims to provide a strong foundation of Scrum to all learners (irrespective of their domains and backgrounds), enabling them to benefit from Scrum the most.
This course is meant to be the beginning, not the end, of your journey toward achieving a deeper understanding and application of Scrum and boosting your career as a Scrum Master.
-> The Scrum Team
• The responsibilities and accountabilities of the Scrum Team, Scrum Master, Developers, and Product Owner.
• Why the Product Owner is a single person and neither a group nor a committee.
• How and why the Product Owner maintains authority over the Product Backlog while working collaboratively with Developers and stakeholders
-> Scrum Events and Activities
• How a Scrum Team could inspect and adapt to increase transparency at each of the Scrum events.
• Deep dive into Sprint Planning.
• Deep dive into Sprint Review.
• Deep dive into Sprint Retrospective.
• Discuss the possible effects of skipping the Sprint Retrospective.
• How Developers conduct a Daily Scrum.
• Discuss at least three ways the Daily Scrum differs from a status meeting and why the various constraints exist to support the Developers.
• Discuss under what conditions a Sprint could be terminated prematurely.
• Advantages of a strong Definition of Done.
• Discuss at least one way to create a Definition of Done.
-> Scrum Master Core Competencies
• Discuss situations in which the Scrum Master could serve the needs of the Scrum Team or organization through facilitation.
• Techniques for facilitating group decision-making.
• Discuss how facilitating, teaching, mentoring, and coaching are different.
-> Service to the Scrum Team, Product Owner, and Organization
• Discuss scenarios where the Scrum Master acts as a leader for the Scrum Team.
•Impact of accumulating technical debt.
• Development practices that could help their Scrum Team deliver a high-quality
-> Increment and reduce technical debt each Sprint.
• How can Scrum Master support the Product Owner?
• Discuss Organizational impediments that can affect Scrum Teams.
• How the Scrum Master assists the Scrum Team with impediments.
• Discuss at least one technique that could help resolve an impediment.
• Discuss at least one organizational design change caused by adopting Scrum.
• Discuss why Scrum does not have a project manager.