Agile project management for practitioners - SCRUM

Agile project management for practitioners - SCRUM

Nowadays, the need for the application of Agile approach and frameworks in solving problems is necessity. There is no successful project without good Project manager. For the Project manager to be a good in his/her job, it is not enough anymore to follow traditional practices, but to engage in changing the whole mindset toward the Agile way of thinking. Among many agile frameworks that are developed, SCRUM is most commonly used not only in IT but in many other industries.

What you will learn?

We will start in this course by explaining the transition from waterfall to agile and by giving the overview of the agile frameworks. Then, we will dive more deeper in the SCRUM as most commonly used framework. We will explain SCRUM basics and go through the  scrum artifacts, roles and responsibilities and ceremonies. At the end of this intermediate course, we prepared for you a small and hopefully interesting game which will give you insights about SCRUM team organization and functioning through the iterations. In final chapter, there is a 20 question final assessment with situational questions. 

Why you should take this course?

This course is designed for the people who are either project management practitioners or willing to improve their skills. In this course we will show you from the first hand experience what are main principles of SCRUM, artifacts that are used, roles that are recognized and ceremonies that are practiced. Furthermore, we will show you how you can make your everyday project management routine more interesting by playing Agile games with the team. You will learn how to engage participants and to emerge them into future perspective environment.

Who are the instructors of this course?

Two Agile experts with:

- a proven real-life software industry experience,

- certifications in PMP, PMI-ACP and CSM,

- knowledge in system modeling and working tools and

- willingness to share the experience and knowledge.

In this course we will not burden you with a lot of theory, but we will concentrate on what is needed and could be applied in practice.

SCRUM framework: artifacts, roles and ceremonies

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What you will learn

• Understanding of Agile way and best practices
• Learn about SCRUM framework
• Learn about SCRUM artifacts

Rating: 3.95

Level: All Levels

Duration: 1 hour

Instructor: Nikola Vojtek, PhD, PMI-ACP, PSM I