Training: Applying Professional Scrum

Duration and language:

Onsite/online training - 16h - 2 days each 8 hours (including breaks).

Training is provided in English. A Polish version is also available.

Target group:

The training is intended for:

• specialists, members of operational teams,
• novice Scrum Masters and Product Owners,
• department/team leaders and managers,
• stakeholders from Scrum Teams’ environment,
• representatives of non-IT departments such as sales and marketing.

Those who want to grow the organization in the spirit of Agile and Lean.

Training preconditions:

There are no formal preconditions, however, based on our experience we recommend a minimum knowledge regarding product or services development and project management.

For online training, it is required to be computer literate and meet technical requirements: https://valkir.pl/en/online-training/.

Price includes:

• Preparation and training performed by an expert, accredited Scrum.org Trainer (PST), an experienced Agile and Lean consultant.
• Effective training in a small group - on average 6-12 people.
• Accredited Scrum.org training materials and requisites.
• License for performing the training (payable to Scrum.org).
• A 200$ voucher for the PSM I assessment and certificate of training completion, issued by Valkir Academy (in English).
• In case of taking the PSM I assessment within 14 days and failing, the participant is entitled to a second attempt at no additional cost.
• 14 Personal Development Units (PDUs) for PMI PMP members.
• Lunch and catering (drinks and snacks). Not applicable to online training.
• Trainer's travel and expenses (T&E). Not applicable to online training.

Certification:

Each participant completing the training will receive an non-expiring voucher to attempt the Professional Scrum Master I (PSM I) assessment. The assessment (in English) takes place online on Scrum.org website. In case of taking the PSM I exam within 14 days and failing, the participant is entitled to a second attempt at no additional cost.

Training description:

What is the Applying Professional Scrum™ training?

Applying Professional Scrum™ is an accredited training from Scrum.org, introducing the concept of Agile Management. Participants through a workshop form will learn about the Scrum, a framework used for incremental and iterative delivery of business value.

The training is based on the simulation that illustrates techniques for dealing with uncertainty and complexity. The topic will be technologically simple enough that non-programmers will be able to handle it.

On the other hand, the most common challenges, obstacles and dead ends will be presented and discussed for people who have only heard, but have not experienced the correct implementation of the entire framework. It gives a lot of space for the participants’ questions, enables bad practice detection and shows a wide range of tips on how to get back on track. Applying Professional Scrum training is ideal as the first step into Scrum.

You don’t need dry theory on how to complete a project sheet. Do you want to gain practical knowledge, learn a good approach to delivering business value increment that will allow you to respond to dynamic changes and improve the organization’s results? We have something for you!

Who’s behind this?

Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland are considered to be Scrum’s fathers, although the approach itself is based on self-organizing teams, popularized by the famous publication “The New New Product Development Game” written by Hirotaka Takeuchi and Ikujiro Nonaka, published in the Harvard Business Review in 1986.

Over 300 Scrum.org trainers around the world every day support the development of management by organizing practical training, learning through games, workshops and effective practices.

Training agenda:

1. Introduction to Scrum: Agile management and Complexity thinking
   • A concise presentation of Agile and Lean foundations, followed by what concepts and values ​​they represent.
   • Comparison between a traditional management and the Agile approach.
   • A short presentation of Complexity theory and Complexity Thinking.
    
2. Scrum framework
   • A brief presentation of the Scrum theory, pillars and values.
   • Roles and accountabilities, events and artifacts.
   • Processes in Scrum.
    
3. Roles and accountabilities
   • Differences between a workgroup and a team.
   • What is and how self-organization and self-management work, along with an explanation of what is necessary for them to function properly.
   • Characteristics of a cross-functional team, accountability of the Scrum Master, Product Owner and Developers.
    
4. Scrum events
   • Work in subgroups on product increment delivery, discussion of the iteration’s experience.
   • Sprint, Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective.
   • Irregular process of Product Backlog Refinement, when and how it can be used.
   • An overview of the duration, frequency and proper introduction of Scrum events.
    
5. Scrum Artifacts
   • Work in subgroups on product increment delivery, discussion of the iteration’s experience.
   • Comparison between the Product Backlog and the Sprint Backlog, structure and usage.
   • Explanation of the Increment and Definition of Done concepts.
   • Fostering transparency of Scrum artifacts.
    
6. Open discussion, challenges and doubts of the participants
   • Open discussion of the questions raised.
   • Challenges and doubts of training participants.
   • The next steps necessary for introducing Scrum in the organization.
    
7. Training summary

Training goals:

What are the challenges we address?

• How can I explain to others what exactly Scrum is, what it is not, and how it relates to Agile?
• How can I distinguish roles and responsibilities without a classic Project Manager?
• How can I reduce the number of ad-hoc meetings to necessary and properly conducted
• How can I use the potential of a cross-functional team and the synergy effect in Scrum
• How can I incrementally, empirically deliver incremental business value?
• How can I define requirements, plan and monitor their delivery?
• How can I get started with Scrum, what to consider, what mistakes to avoid?

What benefits do you get?

The training allows participants to better understand their organization, the challenges it faces and more effectively steer its growth. It contains theoretical knowledge and practical methods taken from the idea of ​​systems theory, complexity theory, self-organization/self-management, psychology of motivation, product management, change management and many other areas.

As a result of this training, participants from different areas of the organization will:

• know and understand the Scrum framework, the principles and theories behind it,
• acquire the skills necessary to use Scrum in practice,
• understand how and why Scrum could positively influence their work.

Whenever possible, topics presented during the training are explained through a game/exercise that allows to apply the learned practice or principle in the business context. Exercise or game usually ends with a debrief and discussion on how to adapt the presented practices to the participants’ context.