Scrum is often thought of as a Software Development Life Cycle but in reality it is a project management framework applicable to any type of problem domain. This workshop introduces the Scrum framework, its roles and ceremonies, as well that the typical artifacts it produces. In addition the workshop focuses on Scrum’s Product Owner role in the software development domain and identifies what the Product Owner should expect from the team; and what the team should expect from the Product Owner.
Duration: Half-Day
Class Size: Up to 20 persons
Topics included:
- Why Software is Hard to Do
- Waste in software today
- Software requirements challenges
- Characteristics of agile projects
- Scrum Framework
- Brief history and testimonial for Scrum
- Overview of Scrum lifecycle and planning cycle
- Scrum Roles, Artifacts and Ceremonies
- Principles of product ownership
- Project Charters
- The product management challenge
- Defining requirements on context of business goals
- Exercise: Draft sample project statement
- Project Planning
- The agile planning spirit
- Iron Triangle versus the Agile Triangle
- Business problems to user stories
- Exercise: Write sample user stories
- Starting with the minimal marketable feature set
- Project Estimating
- Estimating size versus duration
- Planning poker explained
- Determining relative value
- Sprint Planning
- Sprints defined
- Product owner role in sprint planning
- Introduction of the Scrum Task Board
- “Scrum-ing” – What a Scrum Project is Like
- Team working agreements
- How a Scrum team works day-to-day
- Product Owner role during the sprint
- Sprint Review and Demonstration
- Celebrating success
- Sprint Retrospective
- Creating an environment for reflection
- Working toward continuous improvement
- Common Software Practices
- Typical development cycle
- Purposeful testing