Scrum for Executives Training

Course Outline

The course includes several important topics for Executives. Each topic contains slides, discussions, and team-based activities. 1. Why Scrum ✓ Agile over waterfall ✓ Agility Index over scope, schedule, cost ✓ Economic advantages of Scrum 5. Scrum Case Studies ✓ The FBI Sentinel case study ✓ Additional case studies and reading ✓ www.scrumcasestudies.com  2. Scrum: An Executive Summary ✓ Scrum overview ✓ The Scrum framework ✓ Assessing whether you are currently doing Scrum 6. Myths and Misconceptions ✓ Requirements, documentation, analysis, and planning ✓ Managers, successful organizations, and culture ✓ Roles, PMO, and self-managing teams 3. Top 10 Things You Should Know About Scrum ✓ Agile’s success over other ineffective models ✓ Scrum’s answer to risks, meetings, and urgencies ✓ Continuous learning strategies 7. The Scrum Principles ✓ Principles and complementary practices ✓ Teams vs. groups ✓ Rules vs. strategies 4. Agile Metrics for the Enterprise ✓ Direct evidence over indirect/subjective evidence ✓ Organizational metrics and foundational metrics ✓ Value, time to market, and ability to innovate 8. Where Scrum Fits and Where It Doesn’t ✓ Simple, complicated, complex, and chaotic work ✓ Scrum for non-complex and unplannable work ✓ Scrum for support and maintenance teams

Course Designers

This course was designed by Richard Hundhausen (Accentient) and Charles Bradley (ScrumCrazy). Richard and Charles are both management consultants with experience educating fortune 500 executives and managers. Richard and Charles are also Scrum.org Professional Scrum Trainers, coaches, and software developers.

This course consistently receives rave reviews from managers and executives. See for yourself!

Course Overview

Course Outcomes

1. Why Scrum?
2. Scrum: An Executive Summary
3. Top 10 Things You Should Know About Scrum
4. Agile Metrics in the Enterprise
5. Scrum Case Studies
6. Myths and Misconceptions
7. The Scrum Principles
8. Where Scrum Fits and Where It Doesn’t