Agile Scrum Tutorial

Agile is an iterative approach to software product development. It helps project teams deliver value to their customers faster and better. One of the key agile principles is to deliver work in small, testable and manageable scale. Instead of upfront requirements identification, agile emphasize the continuous discovery and identification of requirements throughout a project. Agile teams can react to change faster and easier.

What is this agile tutorial about?

This is a step-by-step agile scrum tutorial that helps you understand the core concept of agile development as well as the way how agile project can be executed from the beginning until the end (i.e. product delivery). The agile software Scrum Process Canvas will be used throughout this tutorial. The whole agile scrum tutorial will cover various agile topics and it is recommended that readers read this scrum tutorial in order in order to fully understand the flow of agile project development.

Target audience of agile tutorial

This agile tutorial has been written for both the people below.

• People who are working on or will work on agile projects, e.g. all sorts of software developers, programmers, testers, UXer, architects, etc
• Project managers and scrum masters
• Product owners, business analysts and customer representatives
• Units that governs scrum projects

Outline of agile scrum tutorial

There are totally twenty lessons covered in this agile tutorial. Click on a lecture to begin.

Lesson No.	Title	What You’ll Learn
Lesson 01	How to Identify Project Vision	Identify project vision Develop Agile Project Charter
Lesson 02	How to Appoint Product Owner	Appoint product owner Detail product owner responsibility
Lesson 03	How to Appoint Scrum Master	Appoint scrum master Detail scrum master responsibility
Lesson 04	How to Form a Scrum Team	Select scrum team members Detail scrum team members’ responsibilities
Lesson 05	How to Identify Scrum Project Stakeholders	List scrum project stakeholders Describe the stakeholders
Lesson 06	How to Identify Business Goals	Draw use case diagram Describe use cases
Lesson 07	How to Manage Epics	Create epics in user story map Describe epics
Lesson 08	How to Manage Product Backlog	Describe scrum project done criteria Create user stories in story map Define acceptance criteria Prioritize user stories
Lesson 09	How to Develop Release Plan	Identify and describe project deliverables List project releases Re-arrange user stories into releases
Lesson 10	How to Create a Sprint	Create a sprint Configure sprint
Lesson 11	How to Conduct a Sprint Planning Meeting	Select user stories for sprint backlog Identify effort-estimated tasks Identify sprint deliverables
Lesson 12	How to Record Impediment	Log impediment Detail impediment
Lesson 13	How to Create a Burndown Chart	Understand burndown chart Open burndown chart
Lesson 14	How to Create a Scrum Board	Understand scrum board Open scrum board
Lesson 15	How to Conduct Daily Scrum	Record progress of work Conduct daily scrum Record follow-up activities
Lesson 16	How to Conduct Sprint Review	Demonstrate user stories Perform user story acceptance Update progress of project deliverables
Lesson 17	How to Conduct Sprint Retrospective	Record start, continue and stop items Vote and record the result of voting
Lesson 18	How to Conduct Project Retrospective	Document lessons learned – project successes Document project challenges
Lesson 19	How to Generate Report for Scrum Project	Open an auto-generated report Manual report generation
Lesson 20	How to Use Artifact Shortcut	Open artifact via shortcut