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Agile Bootcamp for Scrum Masters

3 Weeks

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Cohort-based Course

The Agile Bootcamp is aimed at helping you develop the skills and attributes needed for a Scrum Master or Agile PM role.

Hosted by

Dare Oduale, Kemi Alere, and Femi Okikiolu

Agile Coach and Scrum Masters

Course overview

Become a certified Scrum Master and gain practical agile experience in two weeks

The Agile Bootcamp focuses on building your understanding of Agile principles and practices, such as Scrum, Kanban, and Lean. You'll learn how to develop, implement, and manage Agile projects and product delivery, as well as how to evaluate the success of that delivery. The Bootcamp also covers topics such as team dynamics and team building, providing you with the knowledge and skills to create effective teams. Additionally, you'll gain an understanding of the Agile mindset and how to apply it to real-world scenarios. With the skills and knowledge gained through the Bootcamp, you'll be well-equipped to take on an Agile-related role.


What is included in this course?

1. Live virtual practical training sessions

2. Pre-recorded teaching videos & reading materials

3. Recording of all live virtual sessions

4. PSM Certification Exam

5. Group Support & Coaching

6. CV Reviews

7. Guidance on preparing for an interview




Who is this course for

01

New Scrum Masters and Agile Project Managers who want to deepen their understanding of how to support their teams and organization

02

People considering a career switch to Agile and Scrum roles like Scrum Master, Agile PM, or Agile Business Analyst.

03

Experienced scrum team members who want to level up on their adoption of agile delivery within their teams and organizations.

What you’ll get out of this course

Deliver a software product

Apply the skills you learned in the training to create your own software product following the agile practices and tools (like Jira, and Azure DevOps) learned in class.

Conduct Agile assessment

Track the metrics you'd learn about in the course of delivering your own software product. Accurately interpret these metrics and gain valuable insights from them

Coach an Agile team

All participants will be segmented into teams and everyone will have the opportunity to coach teams through a specific challenge by applying the skills and techniques learned from the course.

Become a certified Scrum Master

As part of the course, you will be registered for the Professional Scrum Master certification exam with scrum.org and be well prepared to pass this exam. All of my previous students have passed their exams.

What people are saying

        The training was detailed and super informative. It was delivered at a steady pace that was easy to grasp and apply the information. I successfully completed the course and gained my scrum master qualification.
Sarah

Sarah

Agile Project Manager
        Though I have worked as a Project Manager with an international organization for years, attending this training helped me gain new insights and skills to do better and be positioned for even better opportunities.
Hannah

Hannah

Scrum Master

Meet your instructor

Dare Oduale

Dare Oduale

Agile Coach

Dare has worked with global consultancies, and has served Fortune 500 Clients such as Shell, BNP Paribas, and Roche. And a luxury automotive manufacturer - Jaguar Land Rover.


He has trained over 1,200 people across different agile roles such as Scrum Masters, Product Owners, Business Analysts, and Project Managers.


He shares anecdotes from his work experience to make his training sessions very practical and applicable.

Kemi Alere

Kemi Alere

Femi Okikiolu

Femi Okikiolu

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Course syllabus

01

SDLC in Project and Product

Learn about the Software Delivery Lifecycle (SDLC) and how it varies within Project Management vs Product Management. At the end of this class, students will be introduced to how to deliver their own software product.

02

Agile Work Management Tools

Practical class on how to set up and use agile work management tools such as Jira and Azure DevOps. Students will be encouraged to adopt a preferred tool to be used through the training program for their personal project.

03

Agile Manifesto & Team Dynamics

The values and principles of the agile manifesto will be explained in light of how this can be leveraged to influence the dynamics of a team.

04

Design Thinking, Product Vision & Roadmap

Learn about design thinking and how this can guide the process of framing the problem a product is meant to solve and how to prioritize milestone delivery for this product.

05

Product Backlog Management

Writing user stories, chunking the stories into features and/or epics, and estimating these stories through relative estimation or story points. Also, techniques such as DEEP, INVEST, and story mapping will be explored.

06

Roles in a Scrum Team

Beyond the scrum core accountabilities of the Scrum Master, Product Owner, and Development Team, this lesson will expand on detailed roles and responsibilities within a typic software-focused agile team.

07

Scrum Events & Other Agile Frameworks

All scrum events and a suggested outline for each event will be explained in this module. Also an understanding of other frameworks such as Kanban. SAFe, LeSS will be explored.

08

Agile Metrics

All some agile practitioners know about agile metrics is burndown chart and velocity, we seek to change that in our sessions. Through this module, we will explore three categories of metrics - positivity, producitivity, and performance.

09

Introduction to Team Coaching

This module will be focused on behaviors and techniques that help to practical coach an agile team in one's capacity as a Scrum Master or Agile Project Manager.

10

Wrap-Up

This wrap-up session will provide feedback on the product delivered by each participant. Also, CV writing guides will be provided, and guidance on how to interview for these roles.

Course schedule

2-3 hours a day
  • Monday to Friday

    7:00 pm - 9:00 pm GMT

    Each live session will hold for two hours per day, however, there are videos and reading materials that also need to be watched before each class.

  • February 1st to February 15th, 2023


  • Weekly projects

    5 hours per week

    The practical project and assignments that need to be worked on during this course will take about 5 hours per week. This could be done 1 hour each day or some weekend time could be used for this as well.

Learning is better with cohorts

Learning is better with cohorts

Active hands-on learning

This course builds on live workshops and hands-on projects

Interactive and project-based

You’ll be interacting with other learners through breakout rooms and project teams

Learn with a cohort of peers

Join a community of like-minded people who want to learn and grow alongside you

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