Unleash Your Potential with the APS Workshop
What is the APS Workshop?
The APS workshop, short for Applying Professional Scrum, is your gateway to unlocking the power of Scrum in the world of project management. In this two-day instructor-led course, you will embark on a journey to understand agility and how Scrum sets itself apart from traditional project management methodologies.
Why Choose APS?
If you’re looking to accelerate your career and navigate the dynamic corporate landscape, the APS workshop is your compass. With no prerequisites, it’s accessible to all, making it the ideal choice for both beginners and seasoned professionals. You’ll delve into the fundamentals of Scrum, learn how to be a valuable member of a Scrum team, and gain insights into avoiding common pitfalls.
Transform Your Career
In today’s fast-paced corporate world, adaptability and efficiency are paramount. The APS workshop equips you with the knowledge and skills to thrive in this environment. Whether you’re a team member or a project enthusiast, this course will empower you to embrace the principles of Scrum, helping you stand out in your career. Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your professional journey with the APS workshop. Your success story starts here.
Course Details
Duration: 2 days; Instructor-led
Audience
The Applying Professional Scrum (APS) course is the perfect introduction, reboot, or refresher to Scrum. This course is for teams or anyone wanting to experience the Scrum way of working. APS provides the knowledge needed for anyone interested in taking role-focused training.
Prerequisites
Applying Professional Scrum training has no prerequisite, but good to read Scrum Guide before attending this workshop. Scrum Guide freely available here.
Methodology
This course is highly interactive and uses diverse teaching methods (lectures, self-assessments, group discussions, activities, and videos) to accommodate different learning styles This training will also leverage on participant’s personal life and work experiences.
Course Objectives
·        Learn about Agility and how Scrum differs from traditional plan-driven work modelsÂ
·        Learn (or relearn) the fundamentals of Scrum and how to apply them correctly
·        Develop an understanding of what it is like to use Scrum and if it is right for your team
·        Learn how to be a great Scrum Team member
·        Leave the class with ways to identify common pitfalls and how to avoid them
Outlines
Module 1: Agile and Scrum Framework
We often hear agile helps complete projects faster than waterfall but is it true? Are we looking to complete a project faster or wanted to go early to market? These are two different things. This module helps students explore the purpose behind agile methods and how Scrum helps in adopt business agility.
Module 2: Empirical Process Control
Scrum is based on empirical process control, but what is empirical process control, and why it helps solve complex adaptive problems? In this module, we deep dive into the Scrum framework and understand how each Scrum framework element helps practice empiricism.
Module 3: Scrum Elements
Scrum has three roles to have clear accountability, three artifacts to enable transparency and fulfill different commitments. There are five events to inspect and adapt. How all these works together? We run hands-on exercises to learn all these in detail.
Module 4: Roles within Scrum
Product Owner is there to optimize the value, Scrum Master to help in adopting Scrum, and Developers to produce quality increment. It seems all these are theories unless we understand how they do it. We will learn all these by role-playing during the training to have a deeper understanding of each role.
Module 5: Scrum Artifacts
Product Backlog is a single source of all the requirements, always provides current insight, ordered based on value, risk, and size, and available to all the stakeholders. Sprint Backlog is a plan for developers to meet the Sprint goal, and Product Increment is the sum of all the work done as per the definition of Done by developers. Will learn how to enable transparency through Scrum artifacts.
Module 6: Scrum Events
There are five events in Scrum. The Sprint, Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective. These are opportunities for the Scrum team to inspect and adapt products, plans, and working ways. Effective facilitation techniques help in producing better quality of the product within the Scrum. We will learn how to facilitate scrum events for a better outcome.
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