Applying Professional Scrum for Software Development

Virtual Professional Scrum Develope (PSD) is a 4-day hands-on course where you will experience how to deliver quality software using Scrum with Agile and get an overview of DevOps practices. Students will work as a Scrum Team or multiple Scrum Teams depending on class size, creating real code on a realistic software system. The course also includes a free attempt at the globally recognized Professional Scrum Developer certification exam (PSD).

Over the 4 days, students gain a real-world view of what it is like to build software with Scrum. Throughout the course, students collaborate over a series of Sprints. They learn modern engineering practices, and use the Scrum framework to cope with changes. There is a key focus on having students learn how to develop and deliver increments of potentially releasable functionality from a realistic Product Backlog. By doing so, students will experience real-world challenges and issues and will learn how to handle them by continuously improving during the Sprint cycles.

The course teaches how Agile engineering practices and supportive DevOps tools improve a team's capabilities even more.

Course Topics

• Scrum Framework
• Working within a Scrum Team
• Definition of Done
• Development Practices for Quality output
• Agile architecture practices to slice features
• Overview of modern engineering practices like TDD, Code Analysis, etc.
• Agile requirement management practices
• Overview of DevOps

Target Audience:

The Professional Scrum Developer course is intended for all members of a Scrum Development Team – Coders, architects, database developers, testers, and others with some technical knowledge.

Detailed Agenda:

Day 1 – 03-Sep-2020 – 3:00 PM to 7:00 PM IST

• Introduction and working agreement
• Scrum Framework
  • Scrum Values
  • Scrum Roles
  • Scrum Events
  • Scrum Artifacts
• Day 1 Retrospective

Day 2 – 04-Sep-2020 – 3:00 PM to 7:00 PM IST

• Introduction to Case Study (for activities)
• Explore the case study solution
• Understand Definition of Done and build one for the team
• Product backlog – refinement and estimation techniques
• Day 2 Retrospective

Day 3 – 05-Sep-2020 – 12:00 to 7:00 PM IST

• Sprint 1 activity – hands on activity (1.5 hours)
• Overview of DevOps
• Types of Testing
• Quality Practices
• Code Metrics
• Sprint 2 activity – hands on activity (1.5 hours)
• Day 3 Retrospective

Day 4 – 06-Sep-2020 – 12:00 to 7:00 PM IST

• Agile architecture practices to slice features
• Code quality with modern engineering practices
  • Overview of:
    • TDD, ATDD
    • CI/CD
    • Refactoring
    • Technical Debt
• Sprint 3 activity (1.5 hours)
• Discuss use cases of common Scrum challenges
• Use cases for common Scrum Development Team Dysfunctions
• Next Steps for PSD assessment
• Course Retrospective

Certification:

This course has the Professional Scrum Developer level I (PSD I) as associated credential. All participants completing the Professional Scrum Developer course receive a password to take the PSD I assessment.

This industry-recognized certification requires a minimum passing score on the associated rigorous assessment. Scrum.org maintains a public list with everyone holding a PSD I credential.