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Course duration: 3 days, 9am – 5pm

“I equate Scrum to the game of chess. You can read the official rulebook for chess. The moves, players, sequences, scoring, etc. are all specified. Learn them. Then you can play chess.” by Ken Schwaber, co-creator of Scrum

So, why Agile? The future is unpredictable, and with the world and its technology changing ever faster, it is creating greater uncertainty on our needs and requirements. Projects that are able to embrace Agile are able to adapt faster, delivering little and often, testing the environment and remaining customer-focused. Scrum is the most popular agile methodology practiced globally.

The Scrum Foundations course is intended as a great introduction to Scrum. Participants learn the fundamentals of Scrum and experience the Scrum way with hands-on exercises. The course combines instruction and team exercises, taking through students a learning journey of why Scrum works and why Scrum does not. Participants should expect an experiential and fun class by working together in sprints to build a product. The exercises are designed to demonstrate the rules of Scrum and expose the ScrumButs.

This course provides the foundation leading to the role-focused training of Scrum Master and Scrum Product Owner. Both the Scrum Master and Scrum Product Owner courses prepare the students to sit for the Agile Business Consortium Scrum Master (ABC SM) and Professional Scrum Product Owner I (PSPO I) certification exams respectively.

Participants are eligible to claim 14 PMI PDUs upon attending this course

  • Agile
    • Agile Manifesto
    • 12 principles
  • Scrum basics
    • 3 pillars
    • 5 values
  • The Scrum framework
    • Rules of Scrum
    • 3 roles
    • 5 events
    • 3 artifacts
  • Generally Accepted Scrum Practices
    • User story and story points
    • Planning Poker
    • Task Board
    • Burndown chart
  • Building a product with Scrum
  • Common ScrumButs
  • Scaling Scrum for bigger teams
  • Starting Scrum for your projects.
  • Understand the Agile values and
    principles
  • Know Scrum’s past and present
  • Understand the pillars, values, roles, events and artifacts of Scrum
  • Know some common ScrumButs
  • Learn the popular scaling models of Scrum
  • Build the foundation knowledge required for the Scrum Master or Scrum Product Owner courses.

This course is intended for business executives, product owners, business analysts, project managers, designers, project members, developers or individuals who want to better understand Scrum as a delivery approach to improving their projects. This course is also a precursor to role-focused trainings such as Scrum Master or Scrum Product Owner

There is no pre-requisite for the course. However, some experience and awareness in project work as well as product or software development would be advantageous.

Trainer profile

Hoon Wee Tan

Hoon Wee is an experienced IT professional with broad international experience in managing IT shared services, project management and end-user support. He is well versed in both waterfall and agile practices, being a PMP, PRINCE2 Practitioner, AgilePM Practitioner and Certified Scrum Master. Hoon Wee has performed advisory roles for organizational change strategies related to process design, optimization and implementation.

A consummate service professional at heart, Hoon Wee displays exceptional client service and communication skills with abilities to develop and maintain outstanding client relationships and is able to manage multiple engagements and competing priorities in a highly challenging, flexible, interactive and results-based team environment.

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