Agile and Scrum Training

Introduction

The Agile and Scrum training is aimed at understanding the core beliefs of Agile and Scrum, and creating a transparent and collaborative environment where the team works as a single unit.This course teaches the principles and practices that make Agile and Scrum effective at managing projects

Course Duration : 4 weeks @ 5 hours/week

Skills
You’ll Gain

➤ Creating user stories

➤ Breaking a story into tasks

➤ Applying user story prioritization

➤ techniques

➤ Running project lifecycle for Agile

➤ product development

➤ Identifying Scrum Artefacts

➤ Running Scrum ceremonies

➤ Applying techniques of Agile estimation

➤ Running product planning workshops

➤ Running release planning workshops

➤ Running iteration planning meetings

➤ Using Agile metrics

➤ Applying Safe®, DAD and Less

➤ where applicable

➤ Facilitation skills

➤ Resolving impediments

➤ Conflict resolution

➤ Communication skills

➤ Collaboration skills

➤ Fostering innovation

Is this
course for you?

This beginner-friendly course is for you if you’re interested in enabling high performancein your Agile and Scrum teams. Anyone can attend the course, including:

➤ Project Managers

➤ Developers

➤ Product Owners

➤ Product Managers

➤ Software Developers

➤ Software Testers

➤ Team Leads, Team Members

➤ Software Development Managers

➤ Software Development Architects

Course Pre-requisites

There are no prerequisites to attend this course.

Curriculum

Details

  • Background to Agile
  • Agile Basics
  • Business Inputs
  • Agile Variants
  • Agile Project Management Framework
  • Introduction to Scrum
  • Scrum Building Blocks
  • The Curriculum
  • Agile Estimation
  • Agile Planning
  • Monitoring and Tracking
  • Agile Metrics and Agile Tools
  • Scaling Agile
  • Careers in Agile

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Facilitator Profile

A visionary leader offering over 23+ years of notable contribution in the entire gamut of delivering executive-level consulting to service & manufacturing organizations. Leadership forte entails achievement of measurable business results in supply chain process effectiveness and efficiency, unparalleled customer satisfaction and superior market performance; leveraging deep expertise, outstanding collaboration resulting in yield of multi-million dollar benefits to the bottom line.

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Commonly Asked Questions 

Do Scrum masters get paid well?

Recent times of the pandemic has shown the increase in the demand for certain job roles. One among the most sough-after roles is the Scrum Masters. Leading organisations are ready to pay expert Scrum masters high salaries due to their ability to navigate extreme scenarios and deliver the projects without affecting either the time frame or the budget of the project.

What are the Companies that Prefer to Hire Certified ScrumMasters?

According to the Scrum Guides, “Scrum has been adopted by a vast amount of software development companies around the world.” 

. According to the latest data on Glassdoor, the top companies looking for expert Scrum Masters are:

  • Answer Financial Inc. – Encino, CA
  • Pegasystems – Cambridge, MA
  • Donnelley Financial Solutions – Glen Mills, PA
  • IntraEdge – Phoenix, AZ
  • Wipro Limited, Bengaluru
  • Zensar Technologies Limited, Hyderabad
  • JP Morgan Chase, Hyderabad
  • Barclays – Pune
  • Orange, Mumbai
  • Fiserv – Pune, and many more

What would be the Required Skills/Experience to enrol for the Scrum Master program?

  • Experience in playing the Scrum Master role for at least one year for a software development team that was diligently applying Scrum principles, practices, and theory.
  • Good skills and knowledge of servant leadership, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency
  • Knowledge of various well-documented patterns and techniques for filling in the intentional gaps left in the Scrum approach (example: numerous Burndown technologies, various Retrospective formats, handling bugs, etc.)
  • Preferred Skills/Experience (Any of these is a plus)
    • Experience in playing the Scrum Master role for at least two years for a software development team that was diligently applying Scrum principles, practices, and theory.
    • Knowledge of other Agile approaches: XP, Kanban, Crystal, FDD, etc.
    • Awareness and experience with widely successful Agile techniques: User Stories, ATDD, TDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing, Agile Games.
    • Applicable knowledge of the technologies used by the team.
  • Excellent communication and mentoring skills.