​

Course Syllabus

---

Duration: 6 Weeks

​On this course you’ll have a different learning style to those around you. We will combine visual, auditory and tactile styles to deliver the material in a way that ensures you will learn faster and more easily.

You Will Learn How to: Business Analyst

• The role and competencies of a Business Analyst
• Investigation techniques, including interviews, observations, workshops and prototyping
• How to categorize, analyze and manage stakeholders
• How to model business processes
• Making a business and financial case and assessing feasibility
• How to establish, document and model requirements

​Scrum Basic

Scrum Theory

What's Scrum, and how it's evolved

Why Scrum works, and its core principles. How Scrum is different to traditional project management approaches

Scrum Framework

​Scrum Events and Artefacts

How Scrum theory is implemented using Roles, Rules, Events and Artefacts. How these are used most effectively - and what you should avoid

​Scrum events like sprint and daily scrum. Artefacts in scrum from the product backlog to potentially releasable increment

​Implementing Scrum and change

​Scrum Teams

What Scrum means to your project and organisation? How to adopt Scrum effectively

Scrum teams are cross-functional and self-organizing. How to start a Scrum team, and ensure its succes

​Agile Requirements 

How to work with requirements in an agile context

​Agile Planning

How to plan a project from release planning, over sprint planning to daily planning. How to use planning poker and Magic Estimation as part of the agile planning

​Monitoring Progress

Learn how to use monitoring tools like Release Burn Down, Sprint Burn Down, Task Boards

​Scaling Scrum

How to establish a scaling infrastructure when working with more than one team

​Scrum vs. "Traditional Project Management"

Understand differences and similarities of traditional and agile PM. Learn how to use Scrum in an "traditional environment" 

​Scrum and Practical Experience

Learn how to deal with challenges of Scrum in "real world projects" (e.g. Fix Price Contracts and Scrum)