Final Exam: Advanced Scrum Master

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

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  Discuss the guidelines and best practices that should be followed when scaling the organization's scrum framework
  

  explore burndown and velocity
  

  understand the challenges of scaling scrum due to resistance of change
  

  understand the challenges of scaling scrum due to working with distributed teams
  

  explore the limitation and risks in measurement
  

  describe the use of burndown charts as they relate to team velocity
  

  describe safe® customization
  

  identify why it is important to order or prioritize the product backlog to maximize business value and commonly used techniques
  

  define techniques for measuring business value such as bubble sort, planning poker, break even analysis, cost of delay, roi, and npv
  

  discuss the characteristics, benefits and challenges of using the scrum of scrums framework
  

  describe techniques and best practices to tracking derived business value
  

  describe how team velocity can affect a scrum team and how to find the right balance for your team
  

  understand the challenges of scaling scrum due to issues that arise with too many bugs and urgent tasks
  

  discuss the role of the product coordination team using the lean agile methodology
  

  discuss the agile and waterfall in distributed scrum and using the agile waterfall hybrid process
  

  understand how to apply scrum to maintenance projects and discuss some of the best practices
  

  explore the types of metrics in an agile environment
  

  identify the best practices for running a scrum of scrums meeting
  

  describe dad customization
  

  describe what team velocity is and what it represents in scrum
  

  understand the challenges of scaling scrum due to issues that arise with team member turnover
  

  discover various models for scaling the scrum process and the key characteristics of each model
  

  understand the challenges around transitioning to and scaling scrum
  

  describe best practices for reporting value created from the scrum process
  

  discuss the characteristics, benefits and challenges of using the scrum@scale framework
  

  explore business related metrics, such as net promoter, customer satisfaction, team health, etc.
  

  identify the structures that support large agile teams that are organized into “team of teams”
  

  understand how to scale the scrum team for larger projects and identify large scale scrum frameworks
  

  explore cumulative flow and control chart
  

  describe the relationship between user stories and team velocity in scrum
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  recognize the role of the scrum master in managing and improving team velocity
  

  identify the ideal scrum team size and the advantages of having a small scrum team
  

  discuss the characteristics, benefits and challenges of using the nexus framework
  

  explore other agile reports, such as burnup, sprint/release report, etc.
  

  understand the challenges of scaling scrum due to issues that arise with integrating testing
  

  understand when an organization should scale their scrum process
  

  recognize commonly used selection criteria when choosing large scale agile frameworks
  

  describe additional processes in each large scale agile framework
  

  understand the challenges of adopting scrum and how to overcome the challenges
  

  describe the common metrics of team velocity in scrum, how to identify the metrics you wish to use, and how to measure them
  

  describe additional roles in each large scale agile framework
  

  discover the business value offered by agile estimation models over traditional estimation methods
  

  describe characteristics of the large scale agile frameworks
  

  describe the advantages of team velocity
  

  discuss the best practices for managing and working with distributed teams in agile
  

  describe data analysis metrics and how they can be effectively used to increase business value
  

  understand how to customize the scrum framework to fit the needs to the project and the organization
  

  explore software metrics, such as code coverage, static code analysis, escaped defects, etc.
  

  recognize the general organizational fit of large scale agile frameworks
  

  explore the reasons behind metrics in an agile environment
  

  identify the agile planning levels and discuss look ahead planning and how it relates to scrum
  

  recall large scale agile framework options and recognize the four most popular frameworks - safe®, dad, less, and sos
  

  describe how to maximize the inherent value of the product backlog
  

  recognize best practices for improving team velocity
  

  identify how value is perceived by various stakeholders and methods for defining the meaning of value that everyone agrees on
  

  discuss the characteristics, benefits and challenges of using the less framework
  

  understand the limitations of the agile manifesto and when the organization should start to think about scrum at scale
  

  discuss the characteristics, benefits and challenges of using the scaled agile framework
  

  describe scrum data analysis metrics and how they can be effectively used to increase business value
  

  understand the challenges of scaling scrum due to issues that arise with team meetings