Scrum Overview by Jenny Stuart

Description

Scrum is a lightweight but structured and disciplined workflow management approach for teams. Scrum doesn’t dictate specific technical practices. It defines how the work will flow through a team, and it dictates some specific roles and work-coordination practices that the team will use. The "State of Scrum 2017–2018" report found that 84% of Agile adoptions included Scrum.

Overview

An intentionally-minimal project management framework, Scrum works in a diverse set of software development domains and industries, enabling teams to address complex adaptive problems while delivering products of the highest possible value. In this overview course by Jenny Stuart—who has been helping teams transition to Scrum since 2003—you’ll learn about all of the Scrum framework’s elements—its roles, events, and artifacts—as well as their purpose: how they’re all bound together to make Scrum hum.

The course also covers Scrum adoption considerations (including the role of feedback and the types of timelines used in Scrum), techniques for developing requirements in Scrum, Agile estimation techniques, and possible adoption pitfalls. In short, you’ll learn what’s different about Scrum and what makes it so effective.

Benefits

After completing this course, you will be able to:

* Demonstrate an understanding of the Scrum framework, its rules and its benefits
* Describe how work is estimated, planned, and executed in projects using Scrum
* Apply some best practices to implement Scrum events and artifacts
* Plan, execute, and track progress of Sprint commitments effectively

Who Is This Course For?

This is a good course for those with little or no Scrum experience and those not currently in any of the Scrum roles (Scrum Master, Product Owner, or Development Team member), including individuals who need to support Scrum teams. If you want to go deeper with Scrum, follow this course with Construx OnDemand’s Scrum In Depth.