Course Summary
Our BCS EXIN Foundation In Agile Scrum Training Course will teach you how to be proficient in the following:
• The Agile way of thinking
• Scrum practices
• Scrum planning and estimation
• Monitoring Scrum projects
• Advanced Scrum concepts
1. Agile Way of Thinking – 10%
1.1. Concepts of Agile and Scrum
1.1.1 Explain the Agile way of thinking.
1.1.2 Recognize how Agile brings predictability and flexibility.
1.1.3 Describe the content of the Agile Manifesto.
1.1.4 Recognize Agile methods and practices other than Scrum.
2. Scrum Practices – 55%
2.1 Scrum roles
2.1.1 Explain the Product Owner role.
2.1.2 Explain the Scrum Master role.
2.1.3 Explain the role of Developers.
2.1.4 Explain that the traditional project manager role does not exist in Scrum.
2.2 Scrum events
2.2.1 Explain the characteristics of time-boxed events.
2.2.2 Explain the characteristics of sprints.
2.2.3 Explain the characteristics of the daily scrum.
2.2.4 Explain the characteristics of the sprint review and the sprint retrospective.
2.3 The importance of the Backlog
2.3.1 Explain the characteristics of a product backlog and sprint backlog.
2.3.2 Recognize good user stories and backlog items.
2.3.3 Explain how to refine the product backlog items.
2.3.4 Understand how backlog items are ordered.
2.4 Working toward goals
2.4.1 Explain the characteristics of a product goal.
2.4.2 Explain the characteristics of a sprint goal.
2.4.3 Explain the characteristics of a definition of done (DoD).
3. Scrum Planning and Estimation – 17.5%
3.1 Scrum Planning
3.1.1 explain the characteristics of the sprint planning.
3.1.2 understand how to determine the duration of a sprint.
3.2 Scrum Estimation
3.2.1 Explain estimation techniques: planning poker, triangulation and affinity estimation.
3.2.2 Understand how to estimate using ideal days, ideal hours or story points.
3.2.3 Understand how to estimate the velocity of the team.
4. Monitoring Scrum Projects – 10%
4.1 Scrum Monitoring
4.1.1 Understand the concept and value of information radiators.
4.1.2 Understand Kanban boards.
4.1.3 Understand the different ways to visualize the work done.
5. Advanced Scrum Concepts – 7.5%
5.1 Scrum in different situations
5.1.1 Recognize how to scale Scrum in large, complex projects.
5.1.2 Recognize how to apply Scrum with virtual teams.
5.1.3 Understand different types of contracts in Scrum.
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