Certified Agile Practitioner Course

Course Summary

The Certified Agile Practitioner training course is designed to demonstrate how to be an Agile project manager, known in the Scrum Agile process as “Scrum Master.”

The Scrum Master properly executes Scrum and facilitates the necessary change within the engineering and overall organization. The course combines exercises, case studies, and examples to thoroughly teach students how to be a Scrum Master.

The course begins with an overview of the Agile framework and principles. It then dives into a Scrum overview including roles and responsibilities. The course concludes with building the product backlog, release planning and introducing sprints.

Pre-Requisites: A prior understanding of Scrum basics; experience in software development projects is helpful.

Purpose

Learn the skills to become certified in Agile project management.

Audience

Developers and developer teams looking to become certified in Agile project management.

Role

Software Developer

Skill Level

Introduction

Style

Workshops

Duration

2 Days

Related Technologies

Agile

Scrum

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Productivity Objectives:

Describe the fundamentals of Agile and Scrum
Develop the necessary skills to run Scrum projects
Demonstrate how to plan and scale Scrum projects
Distinguish implications of and techniques to deal with offshore development using Scrum
Identify and remove the communication barriers between the development team and the customer so the customer directly drives development
Mentor the customer how to maximize ROI and meet their objectives through Scrum
Discover how to improve the development team by facilitating creativity and empowerment
Analyze how to improve the productivity of the development team by removing impediments and highlighting organizational inefficiencies
Interpret how to improve the engineering practices and tools so each increment of functionality is potentially shippable

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Real-World Content

Project-focused demos and labs using your tool stack and environment, not some canned "training room" lab.
Expert Practitioners

Industry experts with 15+ years of industry experience that bring their battle scars into the classroom.
Experiential Learning

More coding than lecture, coupled with architectural and design discussions.
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What You'll Learn

In the Certified Agile Practitioner training course, you'll learn:

Agile Overview
- Agile Framework
- Agile Overview
- The Agile Manifesto & Principles
- Agile is not enough
- Can Agile Fail?
- The Best Agile
Scrum Overview
- Roles and responsibilities
- How it works
- Artifacts
The Scrum Master’s Role In-Depth
- Servant Leadership
- Facilitation
- Coaching the Product Owner
- Coaching the Development Team
Keys to Success
- OO and UML
- Architectural Changes
- Emergent Design
- Adopting Principles from Lean
Product Backlog
- Defining the product backlog
- Prioritizing the Product Backlog
- Understanding estimates
Release Planning
- Projecting Burndown into the future
- Releasing Planning meeting
- Releasing layout
Spring Planning
- Sprint Planning Meeting
Sprints
- All about the Sprint
- Lab Sprints
Sprint Conclusion
- Sprint Review
- Sprint Retrospective
Other Considerations
- Scrum in the Organization
- Scaled Agile Framework Overview
- Testing
- Distributed Scrum