Duration

EXIN Agile Scrum Master

3 days

Overview

In the VUCA world, adopting Agile is all about being able to increase speed in the market and delivering value within shorter lead times is vital to the business capability. In order to accomplish these goals, organisations today are constantly altering their project methods from linear waterfall approaches to iterative methods, which gives rise to adaptive and shorter delivery cycles. These fluctuating pressures call for new approaches towards development and project management which requires skilled professionals who comprehend how to adopt, apply and scale Agile practices. Scrum is the most popular framework within the Agile family, for emerging and sustaining complex products through releases and sprints, so as to creatively and effectively augment the product value. The Scrum Master role is a unique mélange of leader, coach, project manager and team leader needing specific skills and capabilities. This pragmatic program provides candidates with critical knowledge and skills required by professionals whose role is to facilitate and enable Agile teams and lead Agile transformations. A pertinent aspect that makes this course exclusive is that it goes beyond the concepts of managing the Scrum process to providing candidates with direction on how to overcome resistance and to manage the organisational change required to A.D.A.P.T. Agile.

Create Awareness
Develop Desire
Develop Ability
Promote Agile approaches &
Transfer Agile within the remaining segments of the organisation

This course is designed to provide the knowledge, practice and validation of these critical skills.

Target Audience

This Agile Scrum Master course would suit professionals working in the fields of IT and project management; particularly those leading projects and development efforts as well as sponsors looking to comprehend and establish an Agile culture.

Exam

This is closed book exam with 40 multiple-choice questions. The passing mark is 65% (i.e.: you would need to get 26 questions correct out of 40). The exam lasts 90 minutes and will be web-based.

Learning Outcomes

Concepts of Agile and Scrum including the “Agile way of thinking”
Applying Agile to other frameworks such as IT Service Management
Managing, coaching and mediating cross-functional teams
The Scrum Master relationship to other key roles such as the Product Owner and the Development Team
Detailed Scrum Planning, Monitoring and Control
Backlog Management
Release and Sprint planning
User Story Estimation techniques
Monitoring of Scrum projects including Burn-down charts and Kanban boards
Advanced Scrum concepts including applying and scaling Scrum in large, complex projects and within distributed teams
Agile tooling and workspace management
Leading Agile adoption and transformation projects

Day 1

Course Introduction

Course Structure

Exam Requirements & Weightages

Module 1: Agile Way of Thinking

Agile Concepts
Continuously Improving the Process
Other Frameworks & Other Agile Frameworks
Applying Agile Principles to ITSM
Co-Existing with Other Approaches

Module 2: The Scrum Master Role

Introduction to Scrum
Scrum Characteristics & Practices
Overcoming Common Problems with Scrum Master Choices
Scrum Artifacts
10 Tips for Writing Effective User Stories
Definition of Ready & Definition of Done
Conditions of Satisfaction (COS)
Functional vs Non-Functional Features
Monitoring Sprint Progress
Scrum Events
Cancelling a Sprint, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review & Retrospective
Responsibilities & Commitment
Scrum Master Role & Scrum Activities
Coaching the Team
Coaching Other Scrum Roles

Module 3: Agile Estimating, Planning, Monitoring & Control

Writing & Maintaining the Product & Sprint Backlogs
Dealing with bugs
Product Backlog Grooming / Refinement
MoSCoW Prioritization
Product Backlog I.N.V.E.S.T
Make the Product Backlog D.E.E.P
Scaling User Stories
Splitting & Combining User Stories
Agile Planning
Planning Onion, Release Planning, Multi-Level Planning, Sprint Planning, Velocity-Driven Iteration Planning, Commitment-Driven Iteration Planning, Setting the Sprint Goal & Usage of Sprint Board
Five Causes of Planning Failure
Agile Estimation
Effort-Driven & Time-Driven units
Exercise: Estimate size & calculate Duration
Story Points
Scrum Estimation: Planning Poker, Triangulation, Affinity
Exercise: Calculate Scrum Velocity
Track & Communicate Progress
Staying in Control

Module 4: Complex Projects

Scaling Agile Projects
Introduction to Scaled Agile Foundation (SAFe®)
The Suitability of Agile for Different Types of Projects
Agile Administration in Tooling & Tool Integration
Extreme Programming (XP)
Agile Technical Practices
Pair Programming
Test-Driven Development (TDD)
Continuous Integration (CI)
Refactoring
Collective Code of Ownership
Sustainable Pace
Overtime Work & Buffers
Agile Testing: Testing Pyramid

Module 5: Adopting Agile

Introducing Agile to the Organisation
Water Fallacy & Agile Phobias
Enterprise Transition Community (ETC)
ADAPT-ing To Scrum
Managing Transition: Advice to Managers & Leaders - Changes to Project Management In the Transition Plan
The Change Formula
Challenges to Agile Change
Managing Resistance & Resistance Strategies
Towards Self-Organisation
Containers, Differences & Exchanges
Leading Self Organising Teams
Patterns For Spreading Scrum
Communities of Practice to bridge Silos
Introduction to Spotify Engineering Culture
Agile Requirements & The Proper Environment
Cultural & Structural Change
Organizational Changes
Changes to the Team
The Anatomy of a Suitable Workspace
Osmotic Communication
Team Coherence
Managing a Distributed Scrum Team
Dealing with Contracts

Programme scope, delivery arrangements and suitability are confirmed during enquiry.