Qualified Scrum Practitioner
Target Audience:
- Developers, Testers, Business Analysts, Architects, UX and other team members working in or transitioning to Scrum teams who want to build a comprehensive understanding of effective Scrum practices. These professionals seek more than basic framework knowledge and want to understand what makes Scrum actually work.
- Product Owners and Scrum Masters who want to deepen their understanding of team dynamics, product discovery, and engineering practices that enable high-performing product teams.
- Managers and stakeholders who interact with Scrum teams and need to understand how effective Scrum operates, including the coordination challenges that arise when multiple teams collaborate on shared products.
- Professionals preparing for LeSS adoption who need a strong grounding in Scrum fundamentals with an understanding of coordination and product focus beyond a single team.
Course Overview:
With this course, you will develop a solid understanding of effective Scrum, from mastering the principles and practices that make the framework work, through to coordinating successfully in multi-team product development environments. The course builds the foundation for contributing meaningfully to Scrum teams that deliver valuable product increments, learn continuously, and adapt based on real feedback.
What to Expect:
- A thorough grounding in Scrum principles, values, and the agile mindset
- Practical understanding of Scrum events, artifacts, and accountabilities
- Hands-on experience with product backlog refinement, estimation techniques
- Awareness of the engineering practices that enable sustainable, high-quality delivery
- Skills for effective teamwork and self-management, and collaboration
- Understanding of multi-team coordination in product-centric, scaled environments
Your Benefits:
- Master the foundations of effective Scrum, not just the mechanics
- Understand what teams need to make Scrum actually work for product delivery
- Develop skills to do continuous learning in a Scrum environment
- Build confidence to contribute meaningfully from day one
- Prepare yourself for advanced certifications and larger-scale challenges
- Enhance your credibility as a practitioner who understands real-world complexity
Module 1: Agile and Scrum Essentials
Foundations, Manifesto, Values
Upon completion of this module, participants will be able to:
- Agile Foundations: Outline the Agile Manifesto values and principles and explain the problems agile approaches aim to solve
- Scrum Values: Describe the five Scrum values and explain how they support effective teamwork
- Empirical Process Control: Explain the three pillars of empiricism (transparency, inspection, adaptation) and their importance in Scrum
Module 2: Scrum Basics
Framework, Events, Artifacts, LeSS Context
Upon completion of this module, participants will be able to:
- Scrum Framework: Describe the Scrum accountabilities, events, artifacts and how they work together to support product delivery
- Sprint Mechanics: Explain the purpose and flow of Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective
- LeSS Context: List key differences between single-team Scrum and LeSS, understanding how Scrum scales around a product
- Practical Application: Practice running a Daily Scrum and create a Sprint Goal aligned on a Product Vision and Product Backlog
Module 3: Product Backlog Management
Refinement, Estimation, Goals
Upon completion of this module, participants will be able to:
- Refinement Techniques: Apply at least three product backlog refinement methods, including multi-team refinement approaches
- Estimation Skills: Apply at least one sizing or estimation method and explain the value of relative estimation
- Product Goals/Vision: Explain how Product Goals/Vision provide direction and coherence to backlog decisions
Module 4: Agile Engineering Practices
Technical Debt, Continuous Integration, Test-Driven Development, Definition of Done
Upon completion of this module, participants will be able to:
- Technical Debt: Explain technical debt and its effects on product quality, team morale, and delivery speed
- Engineering Practices: Describe the purpose of continuous integration, test-driven development, and other practices that enable sustainable delivery and ability to change directions with very low cost
- Definition of Done: Explain how a Definition of Done supports transparency and exposes organisational constraints
Prerequisites
- None, though some experience with Scrum and agility in general is helpful.
- A willingness to learn is a very important asset!