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Agile for Teams

 

This course is available for private sessions upon request.

Agile for Teams provides a solid foundation in the essentials of a Scrum process.

Students learn and experience all of the practical, hands-on skills required for a Scrum Team to plan and implement work in a Sprint. Students also receive an understanding of the drivers and benefits of Scrum, and its place in the context of the larger world of project management.

Audience

Developers, QA, Scrum Masters, Product Owners, Project Managers, Product Managers, and more.

Length

One or two days.

Topics

Below are the learning objectives for our Agile for Teams course. We advise that all teams go through the foundation sections and then pick advanced topics based on their needs. Client will be able to tailor their course work depending on the needs of their organization. *Actual learning topics and agenda may differ depending on client requirements.

  • Introduction to Agile principles and concepts
  • Compare/contrast Agile and Traditional Project Management approaches
  • Compare/contrast Kanban and Scrum Agile techniques
  • Build depth-of-knowledge with Scrum
  • Scrum Roles and Artifacts
  • Sprint Planning and Tracking
  • Release Planning and Tracking
  • Tracking and appropriate tool selection
  • Scrum in context of Program Management
  • Managing Large or Distributed Scrum Teams
  • Release Planning for Complex Projects with Multiple Teams
  • Dependency Analysis
  • Planning Hybrid Projects
  • Advanced Requirements management
  • Decomposition of Epics and large Features
  • Managing requirements of large Features across long time scales
  • Driving from a Product Vision to the release of Working Software
  • Release Planning
  • Introduction to User Stories
  • Defining Done through Acceptance Criteria and Project Standards
  • Managing the Product Backlog
  • Prioritization
  • Progressive Elaboration
  • Advanced Planning and Metrics
  • Capacity Planning
  • Velocity
  • Tips to prepare for evaluating an Agile Project Management Tool
  • Working with distributed teams

Instructor

Kevin Thompson, Ph.D., has a doctorate in Physics from Princeton University, and extensive background in managing software development projects. He specializes in training individuals, teams, and organizations in agile development. Dr. Thompson helps companies make the challenging transition to agile development by working with development teams and business stakeholders to identify their needs, define the right process for the business, determine the steps needed to implement the process, and work through the steps successfully. Dr. Thompson has Project Management Professional (PMP), Scrum Master (CSM), and Scrum Practitioner (CSP) certifications.

Testimonials

“Kevin is one of the most honest and balanced presenters of the methods and processes of the Scrum Project Management approach. He knows where the approach applies, and where it is not appropriate, and how it fits in to the overall scheme of managing projects.” “Overall instructor presentation was excellent. Would recommend others to take this course.” “I’ve taken a lot of training courses and I’m usually praying for it to end, but this class was interesting and engaging the whole time!” “This has to be the best class that I have been a part of. Dr. Thompson would make an excellent academic professor”