Scrum: Agile project management and requirements gathering

About this course

Scrum is an agile project management framework designed to reduce failure, get projects in front of the client quickly and cope with changing user requirements. If you are brand new to Scrum, this course will teach you everything you need to know.It’s suitable for product owners, scrum masters, business analysts, engineers, designers, testers, managers or anyone else who wants to learn the Scrum framework.We’ll cover each aspect of Scrum in turn:Artefacts: product backlogs, sprint backlogs and definition of done documentsCeremonies: Daily Scrum (stand-up), backlog refinement, sprint planning, retrospectives, ways of working meetings, wash-ups and sprint reviewsEstimating points, velocity and agile pokerTeam roles including product owners, scrum masters and stakeholdersTeam psychology including psychological safety, coaching and best practiceAgile requirement gathering, user stories, tech debt, prototyping and user labsAgile release management, continuous integration and continuous deliveryScaling scrum beyond a single team with product splitting and Scrum of ScrumsWe will learn everything from fundamentals, but we’ll also take a look at tools and software we can use such as Jira, Trello, Travis, and other project management and continuous integration platforms. We’ll also look at related fields: Kanban, test-driven development, behaviour-driven development and more.By the end of the course, you’ll know everything you need to do to work as part of a Scrum team and coach agile best practices.

Course objectives

• to provide a foundational understanding of Scrum
• to prepare learners to work in or coach Scrum teams
• to cover applicable tools and software for managing Scrum projects