This course combines the traditional Certified Scrum Master (CSM) course with material providing hands on labs executing a Scrum project designed to give the Scrum team an in-depth experience with Object Oriented analysis, design, and development.
The first two days of this course are designed to present the current Certified Scrum Master (CSM) course. This is a two-day course taught by a Certified Scrum Trainer. At the end of these two days, all participants will become Certified Agile Practitioner.
Students will focus on developing working software via labs during these next eight days. The format of the labs will simulate a real Scrum development cycle with one Sprint being performed each day. The daily cycle will also be reduced so that the students get exposed to multiple daily stand-up meetings as well. Students will be expected to define roles on their Scrum team, maintain the product backlog, maintain a Taskboard, calculate velocity, and develop working software that can be demonstrated.
- Each day will follow the same basic format... After some initial introduction to the project on Day 3 the students will build a Product Backlog. They will provide estimates and prioritization for the backlog stories. The remainder of the course will be creating the product defined by the backlog utilizing the Scrum Framework.
- Each day will represent a Sprint in the Scrum Framework. The students will be expected to hold a sprint planning meeting, execute 2 - 3 daily standup meetings, hold a sprint review, and hold a sprint retrospective during the day.
- In addition to the Sprint activities, each day the students will be presented with Object Oriented topics that are applicable to those days development activities. The lecture topics are listed below.
- Students will be expected to utilize Test Driven Development practices during all Lab activities.
- Students will be presented with problems that typically arise during a Scrum project such as Chickens Speaking during daily standup, team members missing daily standup, getting involved in technical discussions in daily standup, technical problems during the sprint, etc.
- The entire Scrum Framework activities will be addressed daily through the following cycle:
- Sprint Planning
- Students will perform a sprint planning meeting for each Sprint in order to review the stories, develop tasks, and establish the Taskboard for the Sprint.
- Sprint
- Sprints will contain simulations for 2 to 3 working days. Students will participate in daily standup meetings and work on completing tasks that provide working software to complete the stories on the product backlog
- Sprint Review
- Students will hold a Sprint Review Meeting to demonstrate their working software to either the instructor individually or the class as a whole
- Sprint Retrospective
- Students will hold a Sprint Retrospective Meeting and identify things that worked well and things that could use improvement. They are expected to identify at least one item that could use improvement and focus on that item during the next Sprint
Daily Wrap-up
