More Effective Scrum
Maximizing Your Contribution as a Scrum Team Member
Increase your skills and knowledge to participate on a high-maturity Scrum team or to help newer Scrum teams raise their collective capability.
Great Scrum team members master these skills
You’ll learn them all in Maximizing Your Contribution as a Scrum Team Member and why they’re important. Once this foundation is built, Scrum Masters can go even further with our other Learning Programs.
Topics at a glance
Before your program starts
Find your Scrum strengths/weaknesses
Identify target learning areas
Meet with your mentor and review
Pillars of an effective Scrum team
What does “agile” mean?
What’s the different between “agile” and Scrum?
The basics of the Scrum Framework: roles, events, and artifacts.
The three accountabilities of a Scrum team: Scrum Master (SM), Product Owner (PO), and Developers.
How can you staff the different Scrum roles?
What is a Definition of Done and how do you create it?
What is a Definition of Ready and how do you create it?
Writing & refining the product backlog
What do good stories look like?
What are some of the pitfalls or antipatterns?
What are acceptance criteria and how do you use them to clarify user stories?
What is refinement? How often should it occur? What should occur during refinement?
What are common story-splitting patterns you can use to decompose larger stories into sprint-sized stories?
Agile planning & estimation
What are the basics of agile estimation?
What is story point estimation?
What should and should not be story point estimated?
What techniques can you use to conduct story point estimation?
What is the purpose of sprint planning?
What occurs during sprint planning?
Learning to fly
What happens during a sprint?
How do you conduct effective daily scrums?
What happens during a sprint review?
How do you perform useful and interesting retrospectives?
What are the common Scrum antipatterns?
What next?
Why are our Learning Programs so effective?
We interviewed more than 400 software leaders around the world and what did they request?
Customized, minimally disruptive virtual sessions that focus on real-world results through a balanced mix of coursework, self-study, and expert mentoring.