About the course
Our tried-and-tested “Scrum Kick-start” programme takes a modular approach to ensure your organisation is ready for its first Scrum project and to support the first Sprint Cycle.
We start with an “Introduction to Scrum” module aimed at preparing the wider organisation (Development Team, Managers, HR, Sales) for the impact of an Agile approach, and the best ways of ensuring success. This is followed by an open-format Q&A session and an opportunity to discuss the issues raised during the intro session.
Role-specific training is subsequently provided to your Scrum Masters and Product Owners which culminates with your Product Owners generating and refining a workable Product Backlog.
Then we work towards starting the first Sprint session; helping the Dev Team and Scrum Master to work on Sprint Planning; techniques for successful Stand-ups, and Project-Specific tooling.
We return at the end of the first Period to guide your first Sprint Retrospective, where you can highlight successes and inspect and adapt to any challenges you've faced (and there almost certainly will be challenges!) - so that your next Sprint will be even more successful.
Scrum Coaching
We want your Agile transformation and adoption of Scrum to be as smooth and successful as possible. We are also happy to provide on-the-job Scrum Coaching and Mentoring as a follow-on service, so we can guide and provide a useful Health-check whenever you need it.
Give us a call to discuss your requirements in greater detail - we'll be glad to help craft a programme based around your needs.
Online and in-house face-to-face options are available - as part of a wider customised training programme, or as a standalone workshop, on-site at your offices or at one of many flexible meeting spaces in the UK and around the World.
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The Introductory and Q&A sessions are intended for anyone in the organisation who’s activities may be impacted by a move to an Agile Delivery method.This would include (but not be limited to) your software development team, project and senior management, Human Resources and even your Sales team.
The later modules of the programme are intended for the Agile Team (Scrum Masters, Product Owners and the Developers)
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Delegates would really benefit from reading the Scrum Guide within their team. We will gladly liaise with your before your training commences to make sure everyone is happy with and understands their role and responsibilities within the Scrum team.
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This Agile kick start programme is available for private / custom delivery for your team - as an in-house face-to-face series of workshops at your location of choice, or as online instructor-led training and coaching via MS Teams (or your own preferred platform).
Get in touch to find out how we can deliver tailored training which focuses on your project requirements and learning goals.
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This training programme has a highly modular format - you can modify duration and tailor the content to suit your team and your budgets.
Our most popular configuration for the Scrum Kick-start programme is as follows:
Scrum and the wider organisation (1 day)
Introductions
This sets the scene for the first two days, and allows your instructor to gauge your organisation's starting point
We'll explore what the group feels they have learned so far about Agile
What the team members are hoping to get out of the training
Introduction to Scrum and Agile
What is Scrum and where did it come from?
Organisational Benefits and Impacts of Scrum Adoption
Negotiating on Scope, not Quality
Scrum Roles, Artifacts and Events
Inspect and Adapt – who does it and what does it mean?
Open Question and Answer Session
Chance for delegates to raise any queries or concerns
Q & A Follow up
Opportunity for the management team who are driving the Scrum Adoption process to discuss the issues raised during the Q & A with our expert practitioner.
Role-specific training (2 x 2 days)
Scrum Master training
2 days on-site based on our Scrum Master course.
Product Owner training
2 days on-site based on our Scrum Product Owner course which will include producing workable, prioritised list of Product Backlog Items for the first Sprint.
Development Team training (2-3 days)
Along with your Scrum Master, we'll help your Scrum Developers come to a realistic estimation of time and effort required for the given Product Backlog items, which your Product Owner worked on with us yesterday. The PO may wish to be there at the start of the Sprint Planning meeting
Work-in-progress and Kanban
Definition of Done
Estimation techniques
Using your ALM tools (e.g. Azure DevOps, Jira, Trello, Monday.com)
Reporting and forecasting techniques
Effective Stand-ups
Scrumming into Scrum
Follow-up coaching (1 day +)
Sprint Retrospective
We'll sit in with you to help you dissect and improve upon any aspects of your Sprint which your team felt were challenged - to Inspect and Adapt. You will put together action points to ensure that your on-going Sprints become as efficient and effective as possible.
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https://agilemanifesto.org/ - read the original Agile Manifesto
https://scrumguides.org/ - read the Scrum Guide over a nice cup of tea
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanban - learn the history of Kanban
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