Course Outline
Understanding Agile: The Mindset Shift
- The Agile Manifesto: four values and twelve principles.
- Moving from plan-driven to value-driven ways of working.
- Why Agile matters for teams outside software development.
- Exercise: Mapping current work challenges to agile principles.
Scrum at a Glance: The Big Picture
- The Scrum framework in one view: roles, events, artifacts.
- The three pillars: transparency, inspection, adaptation.
- How an empirical approach reduces risk and waste.
- Activity: Identifying transparency opportunities in your work.
Scrum Roles: Who Does What
- Product Owner: owning the vision and prioritizing value.
- Scrum Master: facilitating the process and removing impediments.
- Developers: self-managing to deliver done increments.
- Exercise: Role-play clarifying accountability boundaries.
The Sprint Cycle: Scrum Events in Action
- Sprint as a container for all other events.
- Sprint Planning: setting a goal and selecting work.
- Daily Scrum: inspecting progress toward the Sprint Goal.
- Sprint Review: inspecting the increment with stakeholders.
- Sprint Retrospective: planning improvements for the next Sprint.
Scrum Artifacts: Making Work Transparent
- Product Backlog: the single source of upcoming work.
- Sprint Backlog: the plan for the current Sprint.
- Increment: a stepping stone toward the Product Goal.
- Workshop: Building a sample Product Backlog from a real scenario.
Kanban Foundations: Seeing Your Work
- The origins of Kanban and the flow-based mindset.
- Designing a Kanban board: columns, cards, workflow stages.
- Making invisible work visible across a team.
- Hands-on: Mapping your actual workflow onto a Kanban board.
WIP Limits and Flow: Stop Starting, Start Finishing
- What WIP is and why limiting it matters.
- Pull systems vs. push systems.
- Identifying and resolving bottlenecks.
- Exercise: Setting and testing WIP limits on a team board.
Kanban Metrics: Measuring What Matters
- Cycle time, throughput, and work item age explained.
- Reading a Cumulative Flow Diagram.
- Using metrics to drive better conversations, not to judge people.
- Activity: Analyzing sample flow data and proposing improvements.
Feedback Loops and Continuous Improvement
- Kanban cadences: replenishment, delivery planning, service review.
- Making policies explicit and evolving them over time.
- The evolutionary change approach: start where you are.
- Practice: Defining explicit policies for a sample workflow.
Scrum and Kanban Together: The Scrumban Approach
- Where the two frameworks complement and reinforce each other.
- Using a Kanban board to visualize the Sprint Backlog.
- Applying WIP limits within Sprints for smoother delivery.
- Discussion: Choosing the right practices for your context.
Hands-On Simulation: Running a Sprint with a Kanban Board
- Multi-round simulation: plan a Sprint, build a board, set WIP limits.
- Execute work items through the board, track flow metrics.
- Conduct a Sprint Review and Retrospective using real data.
- Debrief: What the simulation reveals about real-world teamwork.
Bringing Agile to Your Daily Work
- Identifying low-risk starting points in your own environment.
- Practical techniques you can apply starting next week.
- Avoiding common pitfalls when introducing agile practices.
- Action planning: One concrete change to try after the course.
Requirements
- No prior experience with agile methodologies is required.
- Basic familiarity with working in a team environment is helpful.
Audience
- Professionals from any department interested in learning agile fundamentals
- Team members looking to improve project management and workflow visibility
- Individuals seeking practical tools for day-to-day work organization
Testimonials (3)
Understand the essential structure required for implementing any type of project, as well as the key elements needed to develop and manage a Kanban board.
Pablo Carballo - CUPFSA
Course - Scrum and Kanban Fundamentals: A Practical Introduction
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The importance of always maintaining focus on the ultimate goal, prioritizing activities that truly generate value, and structuring work plans efficiently. I also learned to identify and reassess activities that do not directly contribute to the expected outcome, thereby promoting continuous improvement and process optimization. Full transparency must be maintained at all times.
Raul Rios - CUPFSA
Course - Scrum and Kanban Fundamentals: A Practical Introduction
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Gain a solid understanding of the applicable theory, informed by statistics on agile work practices, along with the non-negotiable principles required to deliver projects and tasks on time and to standard.
Veronica Santos - CUPFSA
Course - Scrum and Kanban Fundamentals: A Practical Introduction
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