Applying Professional Scrum™️

Applying Professional Scrum™️ (APS) is THE training for teams and anyone who wants to experience the Scrum way of working. It provides the basic knowledge needed to follow the training courses focused on the Product Owner and Scrum Master roles, offered in the Professional Scrum Master™️ and Professional Scrum Product Owner™️ courses.

The course is an introduction, reset or refresh of Scrum. This course is designed for teams or anyone who wants to experience the Scrum way of working. It provides the basic knowledge necessary for all those who are interested in participating in subsequent role-based training (Scrum Master, Product Owner)

The mechanics of Scrum are presented, as well as an overview of the concepts of complexity, team collaboration and self-organization, as essential elements of Scrum mastery. Participants will learn how the Scrum framework improves product development efforts. With an emphasis on practical applications, the course exposes common errors, increases awareness of associated symptoms, and provides prescriptive instructions to avoid getting off course.

Students work in teams in a series of sprints to build a software application, facing real-life problems. The mechanics, roles and principles of Scrum are put to good use during the exercises.

The course introduces common misconceptions and misunderstandings, so students develop a greater awareness of the associated symptoms. It provides prescriptive guidance to avoid derailing and keep Scrum healthy. Challenged to act in Scrum terms, participants gain a better understanding of how to collaborate and work as a team in the context of Scrum.

Objectives

• Have a clear understanding of the Scrum fundamentals and their consistency
• Acquire tools to identify common pitfalls and malfunctions
• Be able to participate in a Scrum team and be more effective at delivering value

Content

• Introduction to the foundations of complexity and empiricism that underlie the Scrum framework
  • Understanding the history of Scrum
  • Understanding complexity and how Scrum’s empiricism provides an excellent tool for dealing with it

• Le cadre Scrum – Partie 1
  • Introduction to the basic framework and vocabulary of Scrum
  • Understanding the basic Scrum framework
  • Become familiar with the mechanics of using Scrum
  • Be aware of common rules and habits

• Le cadre Scrum – Partie 2
  • The roots of Scrum as an empirical process control model and how it is fundamentally different from plan-driven work models
  • Seeing that all parts of Scrum are connected to the principles and theory, while revealing the waste
  • Understanding the concept of self-organization

• Mastering Scrum: How self-organization is the preferred way to manage Scrum
  • Behavior change and the impact of self-organization

• Planning with Scrum
  • Understand how to measure progress
  • Understand the usefulness of multiple views of the product backlog
  • Further insights into effective sprint planning and DailyScrums
  • Have a deeper understanding of the role and responsibilities of a Product Owner

• Getting started: planning your own Scrum implementation
  • What exactly is needed within the team and the organization to move forward with Scrum?
  • Who will be responsible for which Scrum roles?
  • How will Scrum artifacts be managed?