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BeginnerAgile Delivery

Scrum in Practice

A practical introduction for analysts, product owners, testers, developers, managers, and other delivery-team members. Follow a fictional café product through planning, daily work, stakeholder review, and team improvement. Use supplied examples and evidence to distinguish Scrum rules from optional practices.

Agile deliveryScrumProduct backlogsSprint planningCross-functional collaborationInspection and adaptationContinuous improvement

What you’ll be able to do.

01

Explain Agile values and choose adaptive delivery when uncertainty makes feedback valuable

02

Distinguish Scrum accountabilities, events, artifacts, commitments, and values from optional industry practices

03

Connect specialist work through shared decisions without creating a separate QA completion gate

04

Turn a Product Goal and ordered backlog into a focused Sprint Goal and realistic Sprint Backlog

05

Use new evidence to adapt Sprint work and prepare Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospective decisions

06

Use evidence and metrics to propose improvements to value, flow, quality, and teamwork without turning estimates into performance targets

7 focused modules.

30 lessons total
01Adaptive deliveryChoose an approach by looking at uncertainty and the cost of feedback.
  1. ↳Welcome to Scrum in PracticeLesson
  2. ↳Predictive and adaptive deliveryLesson
  3. ↳Agile values and principlesLesson
  4. ↳Empiricism, feedback, and Lean thinkingLesson
  5. ↳Scrum, Kanban, and when Scrum fitsLesson
02The Scrum systemConnect accountabilities, events, artifacts, commitments, and values.
  1. ↳The Sprint feedback loopLesson
  2. ↳Scrum accountabilities and real job titlesLesson
  3. ↳Values, pillars, and self-managementLesson
  4. ↳Artifacts and commitmentsLesson
03Product direction and backlogTurn a product goal into ordered work and useful examples.
  1. ↳Stakeholders, value, and the Product GoalLesson
  2. ↳Creating and ordering the Product BacklogLesson
  3. ↳Requirements, stories, and acceptance examplesLesson
  4. ↳Refinement, slicing, and estimationLesson
04Sprint PlanningConnect one goal to a realistic plan and complete quality evidence.
  1. ↳Definition of Done and built-in qualityLesson
  2. ↳Capacity, readiness, risks, and dependenciesLesson
  3. ↳Sprint Planning: why, what, and howLesson
  4. ↳Creating the CaféFlow Sprint Goal and Sprint BacklogLesson
05Working and adapting togetherInspect progress and change the plan without hiding quality risks.
  1. ↳Daily Scrum, not a status meetingLesson
  2. ↳Cross-functional collaboration and swarmingLesson
  3. ↳Visualizing progress, blockers, and riskLesson
  4. ↳Changes, defects, and unplanned workLesson
06Reviewing results and improvingSeparate product feedback from experiments to improve teamwork.
  1. ↳The Increment, deployment, release, and DoneLesson
  2. ↳Running an effective Sprint ReviewLesson
  3. ↳Running a safe, actionable RetrospectiveLesson
  4. ↳Useful metrics without performance targetsLesson
07Scrum in difficult situationsApply the framework to leadership, operations, multiple teams, and a complete Sprint.
  1. ↳Scrum dysfunctions and recoveryLesson
  2. ↳Stakeholders, leadership, and distributed teamsLesson
  3. ↳Roadmaps, releases, operations, and multiple teamsLesson
  4. ↳Capstone: run the next CaféFlow SprintLesson
  5. ↳Review your Scrum decisions and choose your next practiceLesson