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Advance your Agile expertise with our self-paced Udemy trainings designed to deliver practical, real-world insights into Agile practices. Whether you are a Scrum Master, Product Owner, Agile Leader, or a team member, these courses will help you deepen your understanding and apply Agile principles more effectively in your work:
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Estimation and Planning are two basic practices that are essential for the success of every team, yet most agile teams struggle with them because they continue using traditional planning approach that is designed for manufacturing and works for well-defined, standardised products. Unfortunately, traditional planning approach is not effective for complex knowledge work.
In this course, we will review practical insights that will help you succeed with relative estimation and Sprint planning. These insights are based on my coaching experience with 10+ organizations and 100+ agile teams.
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Course Outline:
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Estimation
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Definition and Challenges
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Estimation approaches – No Estimation, Story Point Estimation
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Story Point Estimation – 12 FAQ’s
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Sprint Planning
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Planning Basics
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Traditional approach to Sprint Planning
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Effective Sprint Planning – Mindset Shifts and the Process
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Sprint Planning – 8 FAQ’s
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This course will help you make sense of key Scrum metrics—what they are, how to interpret them, and how to use them to improve team performance and delivery predictability. You will explore essential metrics like Sprint Burndown, Sprint Burnup, Velocity, Release Burnup, Cycle Time, Lead Time, and Quality metrics.
More than just tracking numbers, you will learn how to ensure reliability, extract key insights, avoid common misuses, and create a healthy, data-informed team environment.
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Course Outline:
1. Sprint Burndown and Burnup
- Different ways to plot, Interpreting Burnup/Burndown Charts, Which one to use?
- Ensuring Reliable Burnup/ Burndown Charts
2. Velocity and Say/Do Ratio
- Interpreting Velocity Chart, How to calculate average Velocity?
- What is Say/Do Ratio? Is it a good metric?
- Ensuring Reliable Velocity Charts
3. Other Relevant Metrics
- Release Burnup, Cycle time and Lead Time, Quality Metrics
4. Common Challenges with Metrics
- Challenges/ Problems/ Concerns with Velocity, Solving for Productivity
- JIRA Limitations and Guidelines
- Making the Best of Metrics!