Learn the five essential Scrum events and how to measure team productivity effectively. You'll practice planning and executing Sprints, conducting Daily Scrums, Sprint Reviews, and Sprint Retrospectives that drive continuous improvement. This course teaches you to create detailed Sprint plans and backlogs, facilitate productive retrospectives, and use key Scrum tools including burndown charts, velocity tracking, and Kanban boards to visualize workflow and measure team performance for data-driven project decisions.
Organize Projects and Measure Productivity with Scrum
Organize Projects and Measure Productivity with Scrum
This course is part of Google Agile Essentials Specialization
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Beginner level
Recommended experience
2 hours to complete
Flexible schedule
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What you'll learn
Develop tools and artifacts such as product backlogs, sprint plans, sprint backlogs and retrospectives
Describe the five important Scrum events and how to set up each event for a Scrum Team
Apply communication tools to help plan and visualize Sprint workflow and progress
Perform Product Backlog refinement by relative effort estimation, determining acceptance criteria, and prioritization
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Assessments
5 assignments
Taught in English
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There are 4 modules in this course
You will summarize the five key Scrum events: Sprint, Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective. You will define the key concepts related to these five Scrum events. You will also explore the process of creating a Sprint plan and backlog.
What's included
2 videos2 readings1 assignment
You will explore the last two Scrum events in the cycle: the Sprint Review and the Sprint Retrospective. You will learn more about how Sprint Retrospectives can benefit your team in the future.
What's included
2 videos2 readings2 assignments
You will explore how to use burndown charts, velocity, and Kanban boards in Scrum.
What's included
2 videos1 reading1 assignment
Congratulations! You have reached the end of the Google Agile Essentials Specialization. You will wrap-up the course and claim your certificate badge.
What's included
1 video1 reading1 assignment
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