Scrum deep dive

“We need an Advanced Scrum training” - it has been requested for years, and I have always responded with arguments why such an extensive training doesn't make sense to be delivered, and provided a questionnaire to prepare more focused training-agenda for my employers and clients. After all, there are too many 'advanced' Agile and Scrum related topics to be covered in just a single training, e.g. product ownership and product development; Scrum team and personalities; Scrum roles, events and artifacts; the countless number of good practices, tips and tricks related to the different context and situations, etc…

It seems the first quarter of 2020 was a magical time for me, as I finally decided - 'now is the time'... and managed to prepare and conduct the so-long-waited comprehensive Scrum training, proudly naming it: "Scrum deep dive"

The vision of "Scrum Deep Dive" is to educate, inspire and guide enthusiast in mastering the application of Scrum and make the most of it in order to fully reap the benefits of being Agile, while using the Scrum framework. Every step of the training answers the questions "Why is Scrum difficult to master?... and what would help you improve?" by providing insights on how to get closer to the "awesome state" with any Scrum team.

After the training the participants are able to:

• Identify the root cause of their Scrum-related pain points
• Be prepared to lead positive change in their teams and organization
• Understand the meaning and importance of the Scrum values
• Be able to easily recognize the availability or absence of Scrum values in team members
• Do the "Big 5 personality test" with their teams in order to influence improvements
• Fight team dysfunctions and lead the team to greatness
• Experience and learn from real case studies related to Scrum teams, Scrum events, artifacts and practices
• Learn from the extensive journey of a lousy-to-great Scrum team
• Learn when being Agile and using Scrum framework is not beneficial
• Plan the steps in applying the learning in their respective teams

After conducting the training, the feedback was extremely positive, and the participants shared "Scrum deep dive" helped them to:

• Improve their knowledge of SCRUM, and were able to discuss many real situations from different perspective, reevaluate them and understanding the gain in different approaches
• Understand their team’s weaknesses and how to address them
• Learn how to improve all the aspects of the Scrum events, and how to benefit the most out of the Scrum artifacts
• Understand the importance of the culture, the mindset and how to influence them
• Learn from the different experience, mistakes and bad practices in implementing Scrum
• Support their teams on the path to “mastering Scrum” and experience all the benefits by doing so