Scrum Certification - Agile Scrum Training

Introduction

Take your software development projects to the next level with this project management course. Using a mixture of practical activities, lecture, and team-based exercises, you will get a general idea of rising software using the Scrum context.

Pick up how Scrum supports software development and get active involvement using the Application Lifecycle Management tools found in Microsoft Visual Studio 2013. See how the fusion of Scrum + Visual Studio can allow a high-performance Scrum Development Team.

Pre-requisites

• Prior to class you should download and read the latest Scrum Guide.
• Some project management and software development involvement, either as a team member or as a project manager, is favoured but not compulsory.
• Practise using Visual Studio is helpful but also not required.

Who Should Attend

• Any person wanting to know more about Scrum, experience employed in an agile way, or discover the ALM tools in Visual Studio.
• Managers, developers, architects, and testers who need to confirm that the whole route of creating a software application runs as effortlessly and predictably as possible.
• Technical as well as non-technical professionals, managers and developers will profit from this class.

Course Objective

In this course the delegate will be studying the following units:

The Scrum Framework

• The Scrum guide
• Activity: Scrum simulation
• Roles: Product Owner, Scrum Master, Development Team
• Artifacts: Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, Increment
• Events: Sprint, Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective
• The Agile Manifesto

Change is hard

• Adoption blockers
• Organizational culture
• Management and Scrum

Overcoming Dysfunction

• Flaccid Scrum
• ScrumBut and ScrumAnd
• Common issues
• Dysfunction case studies

Visual Studio ALM

• Team Foundation Server
• Application Lifecycle Management
• Visual Studio versions, editions, components

Team Projects

• Configuring security, areas, iterations, alerts
• Overview
• Configuring a team project
• Creating a team project

Visual Studio Scrum

• Work items
• Mapping Scrum to Visual Studio Scrum
• Queries
• Reports
• Overview

Managing work in a Scrum project

• Managing the Sprint Backlog
• Product Backlog & Daily activities
• Sprint Review and Retrospective
• Setting up a new release and Sprint

Managing Change in a Scrum project

• Version control basics
• Creating and manage workspaces
• Team Foundation Version Control overview
• Shelving, branching, and merging

Managing builds in a Scrum project

• Running tests automatically
• Team Foundation Build overview
• Queuing a build
• Creating a build definition
• Build reports and notifications