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Scrum Master Workshop

Scrum Master Workshop Day 1
Kick Off
Facilitator Introduction
Prioritization Exercise (35)
Agile Scrum Foundations
The ideological relationship between Agile, Scrum and XP-to what extent?
Build your own Manifesto Exercise-like?
Putting fundamental Agile, Scrum and XP values into practice
Morning Break
Scrum, an Aerial View
Iterative and Incremental development
Scrum adoption success and failure indicators
Empirical and predictive process controls
Scrum’s origin, direction, cycles and cadence
Talking the Talk
Scrum and agile terminology demystified
Lunch
Continuous Improvement Exercise
Walking the Walk
Self-organizing, self-directing teams
Before-during-after sprint activity cycle
Focus and purpose of each Scrum meeting -ceremony
Net present value and the definition of “done”-?
Afternoon Break
Metrics that Matter
Delivery vs. activity based tracking
Applicability of metrics vs. diagnostics
Burn-ups and Burn-downs
Commitment and Capacity based planning

Scrum Master Workshop Day 2
Daily Scrum dynamics (exercise)
User Stories
User story basics and format
Thin slicing stories
Acceptance criteria and format
Stories, requirements and use cases
Agile estimation techniques and understanding the reports?
Estimation variance
Estimation Exercise
Estimation units and scales
Coping with uncertainty
Morning Break
Release planning in Scrum –how much of SAFe like?
Plan a release (exercise)
Discovery, inception and Sprint-0
The true bottom line value of small rapid releases
Lunch
Distributed Scrum Simulation exercise (optional)
Selling Scrum, adoption models
Bottom up and top down models-?
Adoption barriers and overcoming them
Afternoon Break
Agile Retrospectives
Scrum Master –Role and Best Practices
Dedicated? How many teams?
Common-Project Manager-Scrum Master
Pitfalls
Challenges
Servant Leader quality