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Recommended courses catered to Developers

RECOMMENDED COURSES

DEVELOPERS

Courses recommended for developers aim to enhance their effectiveness and value delivery. The responsibilities of a developer within a Scrum Team include creating any usable Increment during each Sprint. These responsibilities require a broad set of skills, which vary depending on the specific job domain, such as software development, marketing, or life sciences. As a developer, you are accountable for:

  • Formulating a Sprint plan encapsulated within the Sprint Backlog
  • Upholding quality standards by adhering to defined criteria
  • Iteratively adjusting plans towards achieving the Sprint Goal
  • Maintaining mutual accountability among team members as professionals.


We offer a series of courses tailored to developers, including one specific to software development. While Scrum’s origins lie in software development, the skills covered in these courses are applicable across various domains and should be considered by any Developer within a Scrum Team.

STARTER COURSES FOR DEVELOPERS

In the Professional Scrum Application™ course, collaborate with fellow students in a team setting through a series of Sprints aimed at tackling intricate problems mirroring real-world challenges. By employing Scrum methodologies, participants learn to effectively address these challenges. As a Scrum Master, you not only grasp the essence of Scrum but also assume the role’s responsibilities, enabling your team to acquire new skills and navigate through common pitfalls and misconceptions encountered in Scrum implementation. This hands-on approach facilitates the development of an understanding of associated symptoms and strategies for rectifying them. This course presents an excellent opportunity to unite your entire Scrum Team for a collective learning journey.

In the Professional Scrum Application™ course, students collaborate in teams through a series of Sprints to tackle intricate issues mirroring real-world challenges. They utilize Scrum methodologies to address these challenges, gaining practical experience while encountering common pitfalls and misconceptions associated with Scrum. As a Scrum Master, you not only learn the intricacies of Scrum but also assume the role’s responsibilities to facilitate your team’s skill development and provide insight into prevalent mistakes and misunderstandings. This collaborative learning environment serves as an excellent opportunity to unite your entire Scrum Team for a collective learning journey.

IMPROVE THE DEVELOPER'S SKILLS

The Professional Scrum Facilitation Skills™ course helps Scrum Masters cultivate a facilitative mindset, enhance their facilitation skills, and gain insight into choosing appropriate techniques for different situations to effectively tackle challenges, build consensus, and promote openness. It covers typical scenarios encountered in Scrum, offering instruction on employing diverse facilitation methods to enrich your repertoire of agile approaches. By the end of the course, participants will develop a tailored facilitation strategy to elevate their facilitation capabilities, enhancing interactions within Scrum Teams, stakeholders, and customers during discussions or Scrum events.

In the Professional Scrum™ with User Experience course, Scrum Masters are equipped to merge the specialized field of User Experience (UX) with their existing expertise in fostering self-managed, cross-functional teams. This enables them to assist developers in understanding customer needs, efficiently plan learning, discovery, and design tasks, while ensuring the completion of deliverables within each Sprint. Additionally, they will learn to integrate product discovery techniques seamlessly within Sprints and strike a balance between discovery and delivery efforts. Through this course, they’ll witness the integration of Scrum and UX methodologies, cultivating cross-functional teams capable of delivering heightened value and improved outcomes through a synergy of design and delivery practices.

SUPPORTING THE ORGANIZATION

In the Scaled Professional Scrum™ course, Scrum Masters refine their skill set to support teams in surmounting the hurdles of expanding Scrum beyond a single team, all while familiarizing themselves with the Nexus framework. Through collaborative exercises, participants engage in organizing and simulating product development projects at a larger scale using Nexus. The course, based on real-world scenarios, addresses common challenges encountered during scaling efforts and introduces over fifty practices to tackle them. These practices draw from both established Scrum methodologies and supplementary techniques aimed at enhancing effectiveness.

MEASUREMENT VALUE AND FLOW

In the Professional Scrum™ with Kanban course, experienced Scrum Masters and other practitioners of Scrum delve into refining their work methodologies by incorporating Kanban principles. Through a mix of theoretical concepts, case studies, and hands-on exercises, participants grasp the essence of streamlined workflow and gain practical insights to seamlessly integrate Kanban techniques into Scrum teams. By course completion, attendees will possess a deeper comprehension of effective Kanban utilization within the context of Professional Scrum.

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