Prerequisites

Software Engineering Concepts you must know before doing this course

• Phases of software development life cycle (SDLC)
• Waterfall, iterative, spiral and prototyping models
• Roles involved in a software project

Recommended resources to learn the prerequisite concepts

Software Engineering

Learning Outcomes

As per the 2015 State of Scrum report published by Scrum alliance, 67% projects follow Agile approach and 95% of them use Scrum framework. As a result, there is a significant rise in fulfilling customer needs, meeting budget, time and scope constraints, completing projects that drive innovation and market share, adding new features and functionality. 60-70% of development projects in Infosys also follow Agile approach.

By the end of the course you will be able to work meaningfully in a project following Scrum.

As a development team member you will be able to

• Write good user stories, prioritize, and estimate them using story points
• Participate in the ceremonies of a sprint (sprint planning, stand-up, grooming, review and retrospection)
• Focus on creating working software
• Work collaboratively with customers, teams and stakeholders
• Adopt technical practices to sustain and accelerate sprints

As a Scrum master you will be able to

• Onboard team with right composition
• Conduct release planning activities – user story writing, prioritization, estimation and arrival at release date
• Conduct Scrum ceremonies and update Scrum artifacts
• Play the role of a servant leader and guide the team to execute the project and adoption of technical practices