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BeginnerAgile Delivery

Scrum in Practice

A beginner-friendly, role-inclusive course for business analysts, product owners, QA professionals, developers, project and product managers, and everyone who works with delivery teams. Follow a realistic product from goal and backlog through planning, daily collaboration, review, retrospective, and improvement while separating Scrum's official rules from useful optional practices.

Agile deliveryScrumProduct backlogsSprint planningCross-functional collaborationInspection and adaptationContinuous improvement
Learning outcomes

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 BA, PO, QA, development, PM, and stakeholder work without creating role silos

04

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

05

Contribute effectively during a Sprint, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective

06

Use evidence and metrics to improve value, flow, quality, and teamwork without weaponizing estimates

Curriculum

7 focused modules.

28 lessons total
01Why Scrum matters and what this course will teach youUnderstand why Scrum matters in QA work. Preview the knowledge, practical skills, and outcomes that you will build.
  1. ↳Predictive and adaptive deliveryLesson
  2. ↳Agile values and principlesLesson
  3. ↳Empiricism, feedback, and Lean thinkingLesson
  4. ↳Scrum, Kanban, and when Scrum fitsLesson
02Understanding the Scrum systemSee how Scrum's accountabilities, values, events, artifacts, and commitments work as one system.
  1. ↳The Sprint feedback loopLesson
  2. ↳Scrum accountabilities and real job titlesLesson
  3. ↳Values, pillars, and self-managementLesson
  4. ↳Artifacts and commitmentsLesson
03From product direction to an actionable backlogConnect stakeholder needs to an ordered, learnable path toward a Product Goal.
  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
04Planning a valuable SprintCreate a coherent Sprint objective and a realistic plan for producing a Done Increment.
  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 together during the SprintAdapt the plan daily while preserving focus, quality, and shared ownership.
  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
06Inspecting outcomes and improvingUse finished product evidence and honest reflection to adapt both product and team.
  1. ↳The Increment, deployment, release, and DoneLesson
  2. ↳Running an effective Sprint ReviewLesson
  3. ↳Running a safe, actionable RetrospectiveLesson
  4. ↳Useful metrics without weaponizing velocityLesson
07Making Scrum work in practiceRecognize dysfunctions, work within real organizations, and apply the complete framework independently.
  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
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