Scrum Zoo (online workshop)

Hands-on Scrum – colourful, entertaining and no programming skills needed!

In this course, your challenge is to develop a glossy brochure to attract (imaginary) visitors and to inform them about your zoo and its animal population. While you are working in Scrum Teams, your trainer is the Product Owner and shares a vision of a brochure that is just as bright, glossy and informative as the zoo itself. Information of how to turn the vision into a product is given in the form of user stories in your Product Backlog.

As a team, you estimate the time needed for each of these stories. The Product Owner orders the items according to their respective priority. In a Sprint, first, you, the "Developers" of the Scrum Team, select the set of items for your current Sprint. Immediately after that, you start working on those items, namely you gather information, create layouts, write texts …

Your results are continually inspected by the Product Owner who decides whether to accept them as "done" or not. If not, you collaborate on what to do next to fulfill the definition of done. Finally, you inspect how the last sprint went with regards to processes, interactions, etc. This Scrum Event is called the Retrospective. After the conclusion of this Sprint, the next one starts immediately.

This course is special as it provides an opportunity to learn about

• the Scrum Team
• Scrum Events
• Scrum Artifacts

on a hands-on basis. You experience working as a Scrum Team, learn to self-manage as a team and to implement the "inspect & adapt" principle. As no programming skills are needed, the course is also perfect for newbies and non-techies.

This workshop is offered to doctoral candidates from all disciplines as a cooperation between GradUS and the Saarbrücken Graduate School of Computer Science.

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