AGILE PLANNING USING SCRUM

 
 

Optimising your planning process with Scrum helps deliver value sooner and more predictably. In this 2-day course, you'll learn to forecast, track work, and refine your Product Backlog, ensuring greater alignment with business goals and more effective collaboration across teams.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

In this course, you’ll learn how to apply Scrum’s principles to optimise your planning process, regardless of the project approach you're using. You'll explore how to forecast work, track progress, and refine your Product Backlog to align with business priorities, ensuring better value delivery and more predictable results.

 

  • Leverage Scrum’s principles to optimise your planning and delivery process

  • Learn to forecast and track work effectively using Sprints

  • Define and refine Product Backlog items to align with business priorities

  • Identify common planning challenges and techniques to overcome them

  • Improve team collaboration and decision-making for better project outcomes

CONTENT

 
 

WHY SCRUM?

Understand how Scrum enhances the planning and delivery process, and explore Scrum’s values and principles within the broader agile mindset.

SCRUM FRAMEWORK

Dive into Scrum’s key roles, events, and artifacts, and learn how they support effective planning. Experience Scrum through hands-on exercises and simulations.

PRODUCT BACKLOG MANAGEMENT

Learn how to define and refine Product Backlog items using agile techniques such as story mapping, ensuring they are aligned with business goals.

FORECASTING & TRACKING

Gain insight into how to forecast and track progress using Sprints, and learn to adjust plans transparently as more information becomes available.

COLLABORATION & TEAMWORK

Explore how Scrum encourages collaboration and self-organisation, and how these practices drive higher-quality work and better results.

 

WHO WILL BENEFIT?

 

This course is ideal for anyone involved in the planning or delivery of projects using Scrum or agile techniques. Whether you’re new to Scrum or have experience with agile practices, you’ll gain practical tools to enhance your planning process.

ALIGNMENT

 

The content is based on the rules, events and roles as described in the official Scrum Guide 2020.

This course equips you with the tools and techniques to apply Scrum to your planning process and take the next steps in your agile journey.