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Scrum in Practice

How Scrum actually works day to day — accountabilities, the sprint and its events, artifacts and commitments, refinement, and the anti-patterns that quietly break teams. For anyone delivering work in or alongside a Scrum team.

51m
Total time
4
Competency levels
12
Lessons

What you'll learn

  • Explain the three Scrum accountabilities and what each one owns
  • Describe the sprint container and run its events in the correct order with their purposes and timeboxes
  • Connect each artifact to its commitment: product backlog/product goal, sprint backlog/sprint goal, increment/definition of done
  • Apply backlog refinement so upcoming work is ready before sprint planning
  • Recognise common Scrum anti-patterns and intervene constructively
  • Facilitate a sprint event that produces a real decision or improvement, not just attendance

Curriculum

Progress through each competency level in order.

1

Awareness

  • What Scrum is — and what problem it solves
    Knowledge
    2m
  • The three accountabilities
    Knowledge
    2m
  • Awareness check: Scrum basics
    Assessment
    7m
2

Knowledge

  • The sprint and its events
    Knowledge
    3m
  • Artifacts, commitments and refinement
    Knowledge
    2m
  • Knowledge check: events, artifacts and commitments
    Assessment
    8m
3

Skill

  • Making the events earn their keep
    Knowledge
    2m
  • Facilitate and assess a real sprint event
    Assignment
    3m
  • Skill check: applying Scrum in real situations
    Assessment
    8m
4

Mastery

  • Anti-patterns: spotting Scrum in name only
    Knowledge
    3m
  • Diagnose and improve a team's Scrum implementation
    Assignment
    3m
  • Mastery assessment: coaching Scrum
    Assessment
    8m

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