Certified Agile Scrum (ASF) Foundation

•Introduction to Agile and Scrum Foundation Preview

•Agenda Preview

•Why Agile? Preview

•Course Objectives

•Target audience

•Traditional Development

•Problems with traditional software development

•Usage of features in a system

•Makings of a new approach

•Agile Manifesto

•Principles behind the Agile Manifesto

•Principles behind the Agile Manifesto Contd

•Authors of the Agile Manifesto

•Agile Project Management

•Agile Project Management Life cycle

•Agile Project Management Framework

•APM Framework

•What is Scrum?

•Certified Scrum Master

•Professional Scrum Master

•PMI-ACP

•Agile methodologies

•Agenda

•Agile Methodologies

•Crystal

•Project Properties in Crystal

•Samples of Crystal

•Feature Driven Development

•Roles in FDD

•Processes in FDD

•Project tracking in FDD

•Project tracking methodology

•FDD usage guidelines

•Dynamic Systems Development Methodology DSDM

•Planning in DSDM Atern

•DSDM Principles and techniques

•eXtreme Programming

•XP Values

•XP Practices

•XP Benefits

•Agile Unified Process

•Agile Unified Process AUP

•Agile Unified Process System Development

•Scrum

•Scrum Life cycle

•Scrum Roles

•Agenda

•Stakeholders

•Chicken and Pig roles

•Management of stakeholders

•Scrum life cycle

•Product Owner

•Product Owners role

•Prioritization

•Cost Benefit Analysis

•Prioritization based on Value and Risk

•Prioritizing requirements MoSCoW

•Prioritizing requirements Kano model

•Prioritizing requirements Relative weighting method

•Scrum Master

•What does a Scrum Master Do

•What the Scrum Master Should NOT do

•The team aka Developers

•Building a Scrum team

•Building empowered teams

•Role of a Manager

•Manager 2.0: A new role for a Manager

•Some specialist roles you may want

•Scrum Ceremonies

•Agenda

•Time boxing

•Advantages of time boxing

•Release

•High level view of a release

•Sprints

•Factors in selecting a Sprint duration

•Intensity of work

•No changes in a Sprint

•Daily Scrum

•Sprint Review

•Also check during a review

•Sprint Retrospective

•What is a Sprint Retrospective

•Making retrospectives effective

•Scrum Artifacts

•Agenda

•Product backlog

•Product release and sprint backlog

•User story

•Example user story format

•Story card information

•Multiple stories may be required to complete a feature

•Epics

•Writing good stories

•Splitting user stories

•Splitting user stories (big picture)

•Splitting user stories (user experience)

•Splitting user stories (Others)

•Scrum Best Practices

•Agenda

•Refactoring

•Pair programming

•Continuous integration

•Practices of continuous integration

•Configuration management

•Quality in Agile

•Scrum Quality Home truths

•Planning for a Sprint

•Test driven development

•Advantages of TDD

•Definition of Done

•Quiz

•End of this session

•Scrum Planning

•Agenda

•Principles behind Agile planning

•Iterations allow for mid course corrections

•Multiple levels of planning

•Release planning

•Steps to planning a release

•Velocity

•An example with velocity equal 14

•Sprint planning

•Velocity driven sprint planning

•Commitment driven sprint planning

•Find out how much time is available

•For each story

•Keep in mind before finalizing the plan

•Scrum Estimation

•Agenda

•Principles behind Scrum estimation

•Estimation techniques

•Types of estimates

•Uncertainty in estimates

•Over estimation and under estimation

•What contributes to size

•Measures of size

•Ideal days

•Converting ideal days to actual days

•Story points

•Story points example

•Using story points

•Comparing the approaches

•Estimation techniques Planning poker

•Planning poker an example

•Planning poker tips

•Advantages of planning poker

•Affinity estimation

•Affinity estimation process

•Monitoring Scrum Projects

•Agenda

•Definition Metrics

•Types of metrics

•Metrics do's and don'ts

•Charts in Scrum

•Burn-down chart: Iteration level

•Burn-down chart Project level

•Burn-down chart Bar style

•Burn-up and Burn down-chart

•Cumulative Flow Diagram

•Parking lot diagram

•Escaped defects found

•Velocity chart

•Progress Chart

•Niko Niko calendar

•Information radiators

•Information radiators: Big visible chart

•Scrum Advanced

•Agenda

•Scrum on large projects

•Look ahead planning Sample

•Scrum of Scrum

•Product coordination teams

•Scrum on maintenance projects

•Distributed scrum teams

•Best practices in distributed scrum

•Structure 1 Team in India PO in US

•Structure 2 Team split in two locations

•People practices in distributed Scrum

•Practices in distributed scrum

•Scrum Contracting

•Fixed Price fixed scope

•Scrum in fixed price projects

•Transitioning a team or project to Scrum

•One-hour 1-on-1 session with an Agile/Scrum expert

•Clarify concepts, roles, estimation, or tools

•Discuss project-specific challenges and solutions

•Receive career and certification guidance tailored to your goals

•Scaling Scrum: Scrum of Scrums, distributed teams, and coordination

•Scrum in fixed-price and maintenance projects

• Transitioning teams to Agile

•Certification prep tools, performance charts, and metrics

•Real-world case studies and final simulation exercises