Agile Project Management Fundamentals: Scrum, OKR and Kanban

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Einleitung

Lecture 1: Introduction and overview

Lecture 2: Why should we use agile methods?

Lecture 3: The Agile Manifesto

Lecture 4: 12 Principles of agile project management

Chapter 2: Scrum Fundamentals

Lecture 1: Introduction to the Scrum Framework

Lecture 2: Artifacts in Scrum

Lecture 3: Meetings & Events in Scrum

Lecture 4: Roles in Scrum

Lecture 5: The core values of Scrum

Lecture 6: Why should we use Scrum for project management?

Chapter 3: Roles in Scrum

Lecture 1: Scrum Roles Fundamentals

Lecture 2: The Product Owner

Lecture 3: The Scrum Master

Lecture 4: The Development Team

Chapter 4: User Stories & Artifacts in Scrum

Lecture 1: User Stories and Epics

Lecture 2: Definition of Done and Acceptance Criteria

Lecture 3: Definition of Ready

Lecture 4: The Product Backlog

Lecture 5: The Sprint Backlog

Lecture 6: The Increment

Chapter 5: Sprints in Scrum

Lecture 1: Sprint Basics in Scrum

Lecture 2: The Sprint Planning

Lecture 3: Daily Scrums (Daily Standup Meetings)

Lecture 4: Sprint Reviews

Lecture 5: Sprint Retrospectives

Lecture 6: Backlog Grooming (Backlog Maintenance)

Lecture 7: Do's and Dont's for Sprints in Scrum

Chapter 6: Kanban

Lecture 1: Introduction to Kanban

Lecture 2: The four principles of Kanban

Lecture 3: The characteristics of a Kanban Board

Lecture 4: The Pull methodology and using traffic light systems

Lecture 5: The Kanban Backlog

Lecture 6: Introduction to Kanban Cards

Lecture 7: Lead time and cycle time

Lecture 8: WIP Limits (Work in Progress Limits) in Kanban

Lecture 9: Swimlanes for horizontal division of Kanban Boards

Lecture 10: Workflows and Workflow Mapping in Kanban

Lecture 11: Cadences in Kanban

Lecture 12: Prioritization of tasks using service classes

Lecture 13: Flight levels for Kanban on different company levels

Chapter 7: OKR Fundamentals

Lecture 1: Introduction to the OKR method

Lecture 2: Advantages of using OKRs

Chapter 8: OKR Components

Lecture 1: The core values of OKR

Lecture 2: The role of the OKR master

Lecture 3: Introduction to the OKR cycle

Chapter 9: OKR Processes

Lecture 1: Planning Cadences

Lecture 2: Defining OKRs in terms of content

Lecture 3: Defining Key Results

Lecture 4: Roofshots and Moonshots – Setting ambitious goals

Lecture 5: Tracking progress with Check-In Meetings

Lecture 6: OKR Reviews

Lecture 7: OKR Retrospectives

Chapter 10: OKR Extra Chapter

Lecture 1: The most common mistakes when using the OKR method