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EXIN Agile Scrum Master
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Agile way of thinking
- Agile concepts
- explain the Agile way of thinking.
- explain how Agile brings predictability and flexibility.
- describe how to establish continuous improvement.
- differentiate other Agile frameworks and methodologies: Crystal, Extreme Programming (XP), DSDM, LeSS, SAFe and Kanban.
Scrum Master accountability
- Responsibilities and commitment
- explain which tasks and responsibilities belong to the Scrum Master.
- analyze a scenario for the best solution to a problem typical to Scrum Masters.
- explain which tools to use to facilitate the team.
- Facilitating and coaching the team
- explain how to facilitate the team by removing roadblocks.
- explain how to coach and train the team.
- Other accountabilities (Product Owner, Developers)
- explain all accountabilities within the Scrum framework.
Agile estimating, planning, monitoring and control
- Writing and maintaining the product backlog and the sprint backlog
- explain why a good definition of done (DoD) is so important.
- explain how to write good user stories for services or products.
- explain how to maintain the product backlog and how to add product backlog items.
- Agile planning
- explain planning of portfolio, products, and roadmaps.
- explain the accountabilities of the Scrum Master in the sprint planning.
- Agile estimation
- explain how to use story points, ideal hours, ideal days, and velocity during planning.
- recognize errors in estimation.
- Tracking and communicating progress
- identify deviations, roadblocks and other impediments that influence the progress positively and negatively.
- explain how to create information radiators, how to interpret them and how to act on the results.
- explain how to interpret commonly used tracking methods (burn-down chart, velocity, et cetera).
- Staying in control
- explain how to manage issues and bugs and how to inform stakeholders.
Complex projects
- Scaling Agile projects
- explain how to use the product backlog in a scaled environment.
- explain how to scale Scrum using Nexus.
- Suitability of Agile for different types of projects
- explain in which cases it is not possible to use Agile.
- explain why having a small team is beneficial for any project.
- Agile administration in tooling and tool integration
- explain which tools can help a team to use or adopt Agile and thereby increase the quality of the development process.
Adopting Agile
- Introducing Agile
- explain how some project management activities are transferred to the Scrum Master after the transition to Scrum.
- identify what can go wrong when transitioning to Scrum.
- explain how to deal with resistance to change.
- Self-management
- explain what self-management means for a team.
- explain what it means to have a cross-functional team.
- Agile requirements and proper environment
- explain what changes in culture must be made before adopting Agile.