Pragmatic Scrum

Leader: Gil Broza Senior Consultant, Cutter Consortium

General Overview: All too often, Scrum adopters fail to enjoy its benefits. The most common reasons for that are misunderstanding the methodology, customizing it inappropriately, or following its mechanics without truly espousing the principles and values.

Do you wish to compress schedules, delight customers, and increase quality? Do you truly intend to align the technical and business sides of the house? Then this course is your best starting point. Unlike certified Scrum, this course takes a highly pragmatic perspective of the process and the necessary steps for its adoption. It also includes critical components that are missing from certified Scrum.

After this course, your team and management will know exactly what to do and what to avoid. They will understand exactly how to scope out a project, what commitments they can make, and how to execute a project's lifecycle effectively. You will have a consistent, flexible methodology that produces reliable, measurable results.

Course goals:

• Get hands-on with the strategies and practices of Scrum
• Embrace the adaptive mindset and principles that enable true agility
• Understand the critical factors to your Agile project's success
• See clearly how Scrum could work in your organization and what adaptations would be required

Intended Audience: This workshop is intended for cross-functional teams. The class size limit for this course is 16 participants.

Gil Broza has been using, teaching and perfecting these techniques for many years. Expect a highly interactive and practical course!

Outline/At a Glance (Not an agenda):

• Principles, premises and background
• Roles and responsibilities
• Agile project chartering
• Agile project lifecycle
• Agile planning and estimation
• Stories
• Agile testing (including storytesting and verification)
• Automation
• Evolutionary design
• Simplicity
• Agile teamwork
• Risks, success factors and challenges for Agile projects
• Overview of Agile Engineering principles and practices
• Pairing
• Lean principles and their manifestation in Scrum & XP

Note: A simulation of an Agile project is included if most of the participants have no prior exposure to Agile.

Length of workshop: 2 days