Quick overview of the Scrum fundamentals

• Roles (accountabilities) and responsibilities: Scrum Master, Product Owner, Developers (team members)

• Key Scrum artifacts: Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, Increment

• The four formal notorious meetings (Daily, Review, Retrospective & Planning)

• Other “brothers & sisters” of Scrum: ScrumBan, XP, Scrumfall

Organizational Roles vs Scrum Roles

• Release manager / project manager

• Product manager

• Development manager

• Stakeholder

Deep dive into the in/formal Scrum Meetings

• Formal Meetings:

  • Daily (burndown, sprint goal, flagged items)

  • Review

  • Retrospective (soft vs data-based)

  • Planning (velocity based)

• Informal Meetings:

  • Refinement

  • Apres daily

  • Panoramic review / retrospective / planning

  • Scrum of Scrums

  • Scrum calendar schedule

From Board to Charts to KPIs

• Practical Scrum Boards

  • Building the board: statuses vs columns, (not) on-hold, number of columns

  • Using the board: review order, recommended quick filters

• Must-Know Charts (use cases & analysis)

  • Burndown (+burnup)

  • Velocity

  • Control chart for cycle-time

  • Defect trend charts

• Metrics / KPI’s (+ techniques to improve them)

  • Increasing velocity (more)

  • Reducing cycle-time (faster)

  • Improving defect trend (quality)

Closing Remarks and Certificates

• Facilitated Q&A session with the instructor

• Recap of key takeaways

• Explanation about the certification process

• Information on additional resources and next steps