Managing Agile Projects with Scrum and Lean Course

Course Summary

The Managing Agile Projects with Scrum and Lean training course is our most popular Agile course. This course covers everything you’d find in a Scrum Master course, with more in-depth exploration and more hands-on lab time. After a one-day overview of Scrum, and a brief synopsis of Lean, you will have an opportunity to practice what you’ve learned with two days of intensive lab work.

The course begins with an overview of Agile and Scrum including managing Scrum, Sprints, and Scrum practices. The course then dives into product ownership, prioritization, estimation, planning and the Scrum Master’s role. The course then covers Lean software development and best practices, release planning and Epics. The course concludes with the following labs: Release Planning, Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint development, review and retrospective.

Purpose

Learn about an in-depth exploration of Scrum and Lean through hands-on lab work.

Audience

Developers and developer teams looking to implement Scrum/Lean in their organizations and teams.

Role

Software Developer

Skill Level

Introduction

Style

Workshops

Duration

3 Days

Related Technologies

Scrum

Agile

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Productivity Objectives:

Review the origins and basics of Scrum and Agile.
Compile a detailed explanation of the key “Scrum artifacts”.
Give in-depth examples of the Scrum Master’s role.
Generalize Lean principles and how to apply them with Scrum.
Summarize Scrum practices through experiential exercise.

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What You'll Learn

In the Managing Agile Projects with Scrum and Lean training course, you'll learn:

Agile Overview
- The Agile Potential
- The Agile Manifesto
- Agile Alone is NOT Enough
- Can Agile Fail?
- THE Best Agile
SCRUM Overview
- Stories -Making it Manageable
  - Stories
  - Why Object-oriented Principles are Critical to Agile
  - Sprint Planning Meeting
  - Just Enough…and No More
  - Controlling Chaos
- Sprint
  - Creating a Sense of Urgency
  - Driving Your Project
  - Conducting the Daily Scrum
  - Chickens and Pigs
  - Life is…Daily
  - Doing Iterative Development
  - Design
  - Test
  - Code
  - Refactor
  - Sprint Review Meeting
- LAB – Scrum Practices
  - Deliverable will be Poster/Presentation that Communicates Key Elements of Scrum
Product Owner: Roles and Responsibilities
- Requirements and the Product Backlog
  - Building a Product Backlog
  - User Roles and Personas
  - Acceptance Criteria
  - Story Workshops
  - Story Aggregation and Decomposition
  - Spikes and Special Stories
  - LAB Identify and Define User Roles &: User Story Writing
Prioritization
- Value Assessment
- Risk-Based Prioritization
- LAB: Risk-Value Prioritization
Estimation
- Approaches to Estimation
- Analogous Sizing
- Planning Poker
- LAB: Estimating with Planning Poker
Planning
- Product Roadmap
- Velocity-Driven Release Planning
- Fixed-Schedule Planning
- LAB: Release Planning Exercise
The Scrum Master’s Role In-Depth
- Servant Leadership
- Facilitation
- Coaching the Product Owner
- Coaching the Development Team
Lean Software Development
- Lean Principles
  - Minimizing Waste
  - Maximizing Learning
  - Just in Time Delivery
  - Empowering The Team
  - Telling The Whole Truth
Lean Practices specific to software projects
- Value Stream Mapping
- Set Management – Backlog, Throughput, Expenses
- Kanbans and Queues
- Goals and Measurements
- LAB -Leveraging Lean Principles in Scrum
  - Deliverable will be collective ideas from each group and ROLE regarding when/how a lean principle could be used to support/replace a Scrum practice. NOTE: Criteria is that it must be real and practical for your job. We’re looking for implementation not theory.
Using Scrum in a Big Way
- LAB – Big Scrum
  - PROJECT – Introduce Project that will be used for the remainder of course
  - Board meeting minutes provided to students
  - This is the big vision for the next 2 years
  - Event Management
  - Corporate Events
  - Sporting Events
  - Hotel Reservations
  - Car Reservations
  - Coordinated local events and shopping
  - Providing meals
  - Air Reservations
  - Shuttle Transportation
  - Accounts Payable (to pay vendors)
  - Online registration
  - Credit Card processing
  - Group Registrations
  - Accounts Payable System Rewrite
  - Currently on mainframe & we are losing the lease
  - Rewrite for Linux
    - Deliverable – Nothing at this time. Q&A and warm up time for students to start to absorb magnitude of project
- The RoadMap – overview
- LAB – RoadMap
  - Deliverable – Two year RoadMap Students MUST ask questions or they will not be able to come to the right conclusions. The customer wants to be able to offer Online Registration, handle hotel and car rentals. High level stories/epics, estimates and prioritization are important here too.
Release Planning
- Requirements Overview
- Use Cases
- User experience (sprint 0 – before UI development begins)
- User research
- Task analysis
- Storyboards and wireframes
- Apply visual design
- UX Lab
- Giving Up Hope/Change Happens
- Architectural changes
- Impact across components and product/project teams
- Very high level design discussion (for general team audience)
- Integration testing
- When and How
- LAB Release Planning Part 1
  - Set up Giant Task Board for Product Release Planning (releases quarterly with 3 sprints per release)
- Deliverable – Task board set up and team able to explain how it will be used
- LAB – Release Planning Part 2
Review
Layout stories/epics for next 12 months
- Discuss strategies for handling inaccuracy / disagreement
- Deliverable – Task board with all stories in place
Epics – Just Enough Planning and no more
LAB – Release Planning Part 3
- Review Task board and make revisions where appropriate
- Are their epics/stories you missed
- Do you have the right amount of detail
- Deliverable – Product Backlog
- Practicing Scrum – Sprint Planning Meeting
LAB – Sprint Planning Meeting
- Work with Product Owner
- Deliverable Team goal for Sprint, Sprint Backlog, Sprint Review Date
LAB Daily Scrum
- Each team picks a facilitator who will play different roles as she/he reports at Daily Scrum
- Deliverable – The rest of the team play the role of Scrum Master and has to note how they would handle each response.
LAB Sprint Developing the Product
- Deliverable – Team will do high level class diagrams and other UML as needed to provide evidence that they understand and could build this software
LAB Sprint Review
- Deliverable – Team will present their COMPLETED work to the group
- Emphasis here is heavily on what “done” means!
LAB Sprint Retrospective
- Deliverable – Team will DOCUMENT the critical things they need to improve on.
- Turn in document to a company represent the top 3-5 five things your team thinks is most critical to the successful implementation of Agile in your workplace.
Metrics and Measuring Progress
- Planning as you go
- Information Radiators – reviewed
- Velocity and Measuring progress – metrics
- SCRUM metrics
- LEAN metrics
- Even easier metrics
- Metrics Lab
- Watching The Horizon
Final Review

Real-world content

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

Expert Practitioners

Industry experts that bring their battle scars into the classroom.

Experiential Learning

More coding than lecture, coupled with architectural and design discussions.

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