Course Overview
The Professional Scrum With User Experience™ course is to help Scrum practitioners to enhance their facilitation competencies, and guide them in choosing the most efficient techniques apt for diverse situations. Robust facilitation skills foster improved problem-solving, enhance the efficacy of Scrum events, and promote team collaboration and cohesion.
Who Should Attend
Regardless of what industry to work in, The Professional Scrum Master course is for:
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- Scrum Masters
- Product Owners/Managers
- UX Professionals
- Scrum/Agile Coaches and Consultants
- Anyone who wants to learn how to integrate those concepts into Professional Scrum working together in a unified Scrum Team.
Learning Objectives
- Gain a common understanding of what is meant by Professional Scrum
- Dispel many myths about User Experience and its relationship to Agile and Scrum
- Experience how the UX mindset and the Scrum framework compliment, align, and integrate
- Learn the advantages of thinking of work as problems to solve, and the Business Problem Statement’s role in this
- Understand how the Scrum Team can connect more closely with end users and customers
- Understand how “easily” and “quickly” we can do product development and include UX
- Learn the advantages of thinking of work as problems to solve, and how Business Problem Statements can frame the discussion
- Learn common patterns for employing UX practices within a Sprint and within a cross-functional team that includes UX Professionals
- Learn how to plan and balance both discovery and delivery work
- Leave with some UX techniques that can be accomplished within the Scrum Team
- Understand how anyone on the Scrum Team can support UX practices in support of the product
- Focus on outcomes and impacts over outputs
- Embrace the need to release and use measurements to validate outcomes
- Realize the importance of incorporating UX work as part of the Product Backlog
- Learn the value of testing hypotheses with experiments
- Understand how to design experiments to be as low-cost, low-risk as possible, and how to make them “ride the Truth Curve” as you increase investment