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Essential Applications for Agile Scrum Project Management

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Overview

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Examine the applications of Scrum tools used within Agile projects

Scrum project management relies on an iterative, collaborative approach to product delivery, and there are a range of online tools you can use to enhance your team’s Agile workflow.

On this course, you’ll gain an overview of software including Jira, Zoom, and Trello. Using case studies throughout, you’ll discover real-world applications for each tool and identify how each contributes to Agile working.

Improve project delivery processes throughout Scrum Rituals

Beginning with Jira, you’ll learn how to efficiently plan, track, release, and report on your projects.

Guided each step of the way, you’ll learn how to track your product development, from the initial planning stages to the final retrospective.

With these skills, you’ll be able deliver flexible planning, value-driven prioritisation, transparent execution, and actionable results with ease.

Develop your digital collaboration and teamwork skills

With an increase in hybrid and remote working, tools that aid digital collaboration and teamwork are now more important than ever.

You’ll learn how to implement Zoom and Microsoft Teams to ensure your online meetings are easy to schedule and host, and your team can communicate seamlessly across channels, wherever they are in the world.

Enhance your Scrum board project visualisation

Boards are a key component of Agile frameworks, providing a visual aid for teams to track and update their progress.

You’ll explore boards in Jira and Microsoft Planner, comparing the functionality of each and choosing the most appropriate for your own team.

By the end of this course, you’ll be able to identify a variety of Scrum project management software tools and demonstrate how they’re used to improve project management and delivery.

This course is designed for software developers, project managers, and those involved in product delivery who want to improve their knowledge of Scrum project management.

You’ll be introduced to various tools and software used by effective Scrum teams. You won’t necessarily have to install or run them to learn on the course.

Syllabus

  • Scrum rituals and Jira
    • Introduction to the course
    • Daily Scrum and sprint review meetings
    • Jira as project management tool
    • Wrap up
  • Zoom and Microsoft Teams as project management tools
    • Introduction to Week 2
    • Zoom as project management tool
    • Microsoft Teams as a project management tool
    • Wrap up
  • Microsoft Planner and OneDrive as project management tools
    • Introduction to Week 3
    • Microsoft Planner as project management tool
    • OneDrive as a project management tool
    • Wrap up
  • Trello as a project management tool and Scrum and Agile in practice
    • Introduction to Week 4
    • Trello
    • Scrum and Agile in real-life
    • Final week wrap up

Taught by

Charlie Travis

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