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Agile and Scrum: Flexible Project Management

A practical course on Agile and Scrum in English: the Agile values and principles, the Scrum framework (accountabilities, events, artifacts per the 2020 Scrum Guide), Kanban and flow metrics, estimation (story points, planning poker, velocity), and user stories with acceptance criteria. Useful as orientation for PSM/CSM ideas.

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Unit 1 — Why Be Flexible: The Agile Mindset

Lesson 1.1 — Where Agile came from and the 4 Manifesto values

6 exercises · Explain why Agile emerged and state the four values of the Agile Manifesto in your own words.

Lesson 1.2 — The 12 principles and Agile vs waterfall

6 exercises · Recognize the 12 Agile principles and explain how an Agile flow differs from a sequential 'waterfall' flow, and where each fits.

Lesson 1.3 — Agile myths and beginner traps

6 exercises · Identify and debunk the most common myths about Agile.

Unit 2 — Scrum: The Framework

Lesson 2.1 — Scrum as an empirical, purposefully incomplete framework

6 exercises · Explain Scrum as an empirical framework (not a methodology) built on transparency, inspection, and adaptation.

Lesson 2.2 — The Five Scrum Values

6 exercises · Name the five Scrum Values and explain how they make the empirical pillars actually work.

Lesson 2.3 — The whole picture: one Sprint end to end

6 exercises · Assemble the Scrum system (accountabilities + events + artifacts) and trace the flow of a single Sprint.

Unit 3 — The Team's Accountabilities

Lesson 3.1 — Product Owner: accountable for value

6 exercises · Describe what the Product Owner is accountable for and how they manage the Product Backlog.

Lesson 3.2 — Scrum Master: servant leader, not a boss

6 exercises · Explain the Scrum Master's accountability and why a Scrum Master is a servant/true leader, not the team's manager or task dispatcher.

Lesson 3.3 — Developers, cross-functionality, and self-management

6 exercises · Describe the Developers' accountability and explain cross-functional, self-managing teams.

Unit 4 — The Sprint Events

Lesson 4.1 — The Sprint and its timeboxes

5 exercises · Explain the Sprint as the container event with a fixed length and correctly state event timeboxes as maximums.

Lesson 4.2 — Planning and the Daily Scrum

6 exercises · State the purpose, participants, and common pitfalls of Sprint Planning and the Daily Scrum.

Lesson 4.3 — Review, Retrospective, and the order of events

6 exercises · Distinguish the Sprint Review from the Sprint Retrospective and put the Sprint events in the correct order.

Unit 5 — Artifacts, User Stories, and Estimation

Lesson 5.1 — The three artifacts and their commitments

5 exercises · Tell the three Scrum artifacts apart and bind each to its commitment.

Lesson 5.2 — User stories, INVEST, and acceptance criteria

4 exercises · Write a user story in the standard format that satisfies INVEST and has clear acceptance criteria.

Lesson 5.3 — Story points, planning poker, and velocity (correct arithmetic)

6 exercises · Explain story points and planning poker, and compute velocity correctly as an empirical characteristic, not a KPI.

Unit 6 — Kanban, Flow Metrics, and Putting It Together

Lesson 6.1 — Kanban: visualize flow, limit WIP, pull

6 exercises · Explain the core Kanban practices: visualizing the flow, limiting work in progress, and pulling work.

Lesson 6.2 — Flow metrics, Little's Law, burndown and CFD

6 exercises · Read the main flow metrics and apply Little's Law arithmetic, and read a burndown chart and a CFD.

Lesson 6.3 — Scrum vs Kanban, and a capstone case analysis

5 exercises · Choose Scrum or Kanban (or a blend) for a situation, then analyze a real team's problem and propose an Agile improvement in writing.