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Certified Agile Practitioner

Course Summary

The Certified Agile Practitioner training course is designed to demonstrate how to be an Agile project manager, known in the Scrum Agile process as "Scrum Master."

The Scrum Master properly executes Scrum and facilitates the necessary change within the engineering and overall organization. The course combines exercises, case studies, and examples to thoroughly teach students how to be a Scrum Master.

The course begins with an overview of the Agile framework and principles. It then dives into a Scrum overview including roles and responsibilities. The course concludes with building the product backlog, release planning and introducing sprints.

NOT ELIGIBLE FOR A BUNDLE

Pre-Requisites: A prior understanding of Scrum basics; experience in software development projects is helpful.

Purpose
Learn the skills to become certified in Agile project management.
Audience
Developers and developer teams looking to become certified in Agile project management.
Role
Software Developer
Skill Level
Introduction
Style
Workshops
Duration
2 Days
Related Technologies
Agile | Scrum

 

Productivity Objectives
  • Describe the fundamentals of Agile and Scrum
  • Develop the necessary skills to run Scrum projects
  • Demonstrate how to plan and scale Scrum projects
  • Distinguish implications of and techniques to deal with offshore development using Scrum
  • Identify and remove the communication barriers between the development team and the customer so the customer directly drives development
  • Mentor the customer how to maximize ROI and meet their objectives through Scrum
  • Discover how to improve the development team by facilitating creativity and empowerment
  • Analyze how to improve the productivity of the development team by removing impediments and highlighting organizational inefficiencies
  • Interpret how to improve the engineering practices and tools so each increment of functionality is potentially shippable

What You'll Learn:

In the Certified Agile Practitioner training course, you'll learn:
  • Agile Overview
    • Agile Framework
    • Agile Overview
    • The Agile Manifesto & Principles
    • Agile is not enough
    • Can Agile Fail?
    • The Best Agile
  • Scrum Overview
    • Roles and responsibilities
    • How it works
    • Artifacts
  • The Scrum Master's Role In-Depth
    • Servant Leadership
    • Facilitation
    • Coaching the Product Owner
    • Coaching the Development Team
  • Keys to Success
    • OO and UML
    • Architectural Changes
    • Emergent Design
    • Adopting Principles from Lean
  • Product Backlog
    • Defining the product backlog
    • Prioritizing the Product Backlog
    • Understanding estimates
  • Release Planning
    • Projecting Burndown into the future
    • Releasing Planning meeting
    • Releasing layout
  • Spring Planning
    • Sprint Planning Meeting
  • Sprints
    • All about the Sprint
    • Lab Sprints
  • Sprint Conclusion
    • Sprint Review
    • Sprint Retrospective
  • Other Considerations
    • Scrum in the Organization
    • Scaled Agile Framework Overview
    • Testing
    • Distributed Scrum
“I appreciated the instructor's technique of writing live code examples rather than using fixed slide decks to present the material.”

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