Scrum Master

About The Course:

Agile ways of working are taking the world by storm. "Methodologies" like Scrum, Kanban, The Lean Start-Up, and eXtreem Programming are being used with great success in IT companies of all sizes. These companies are reporting faster times to market, more flexibility, higher quality, and most importantly more satisfied customers and employees.

Scrum, Kanban, Management 3.0, Lean, what do all these buzzwords mean?

Will it be of any use in your organisation?

This two day course will cover the Scrum framework in depth, as well as providing you with a variety of tools to aid you in your Scrum implementation when you return to your organisation. But the entire course won't simply be theory! On day two the participants will decide what is most important for them to know more about, and activities will be planned and executed accordingly. Because of this, this will be the most Agile, Agile course you have ever attended, truly striving to deliver customer value at all times.

This course is for Scrum Masters, developers, testers, operations people, team leaders, and managers.

Learning Goals:

Day 1

• Agility
• What is Agility?
• Why is it important?
• What is the difference between Scrum and Agile?
• Scrum
• What problem is Scrum trying to solve?
• Prioritisation with backlogs
• Scrum roles
• Scrum ceremonies
• Anatomy of a sprint
• Output of a sprint
• Kanban
• What problem is Kanban trying to solve?
• Visualisation in Kanban
• Work in process limits
• Managing flow in a Kanban system
• Continuous Improvement
• Why do we need continuous improvement?
• Common anti-patterns
• Experiment driven change
• Formalizing changes
• Measuring improvement

Day 2

Day 2 focuses on the specific needs of the Scrum Masters being trained. Participants bring their day to day context to the class and we focus on providing them with tools to address these issues. Because of this the exact learning goals cannot be defined ahead of time.

• Common topics
• Setting up a backlog
• Backlog refinement
• Interacting with stakeholders
• Facilitation of Scrum ceremonies
• Challenges faced by Scrum Masters
• Visualisation tools
• Scaling in Scrum

Get started by booking a discussion to assess your needs.

About The Teacher:

Jeff is an Agile Coach living in Gothenburg Sweden, but is born and raised in Canada. He considers the discovery of Agile and Lean to be one of the most defining moments of his life, and consider helping others to improve their working life not to simply be a job, but a social responsibility. As an Agile Coach he has worked with driving Agile transformations in organisations both small and large. During his time as a coach in one of the world’s largest telecoms, Ericsson AB, one business unit was able to reduce their global lead time by 30% and their defects in production by 95%.

Jeff is also involved in the Agile community outside of the work place being one of the founding members of Gothenburg Sweden’s largest agile community at 300+ members www.scrumbeers.com, a community run agile discussion group. And also organises the yearly conference www.brewingagile.org.

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