1. Product Development with Agile and Scrum
The Team Workshop – Learn by Doing
Description
Take your development team to next level using 2 day experience based workshop.
With this workshop, your team will practice applying agile concepts and techniques
in team simulations by working on real problems. Understand why Agile and Scrum
is one of the most popular and growing product development and rapid innovation
methods which has proven record of increased productivity, higher quality, and
raised team motivation.
If you are experienced with Agile and Scrum, use this training to identify your
process bottlenecks and enhance your practices with this experience based
collaborative teamwork.
Topics
• Agile Origins and Agile Methods
• Scrum Ceremonies and Roles
• Product Vision
• Release Planning
• User Stories
• Sprint Planning
• Sprint Execution
• Tracking Progress (Burndown)
• Kanban Team Table
• Effective Team retrospectives
• Team Dynamics
• Adopting Agile Methods
Who Should Attend?
Product and project managers, analysts, testers and other team members who
wish to learn how to apply agile principles and practices to build healthy teams and
valuable products.
About the Trainer
Karlo Magdić is
Certified Scrum
Master Certified
Scrum Product
Owner and he
is practicing agile
techniques in last 12 years of his 18
years of software development
experience. He has proven
experience of being Product Owner
and Scrum Master in big international
corporative environment as also in
small startup teams in field of
telecom and IoT/telematics systems.
About AgileWay d.o.o.
AgileWay d.o.o. helps IT companies to
naturally integrate agile methods into
their product development process.
AgileWay provides trainings, health-
check sessions and on-site consulting
for teams which would like to build
healthy teamwork and continuous
improvement with focus on
delivering value rather than just
output. AgileWay has successfully
done agile transition for IT companies
in the region: Web Solutions d.o.o.,
New Games d.o.o., GoSend Inc.

2. The Workshop Agenda
Day & Time Context Topic
Day 1
09:00 – 12:00
Agile Introduction &
Overview
1. The traditional development process and why agile
2. Agile values and principles (Agile Manifesto)
3. Project Complexity by Stacey Matrix
4. Empirical Process Control
Workshop: The ball point game – fun and exciting way to explore
team process flow and power of empirical process control
5. Agile Methods:
 Kanban - stop starting, start finishing
 Scrum Approach – rules and roles
Workshop: The Scrum roles questionnaires based on real world
examples.
Day 1
13:00 – 16:00
Product Vision and
Release Planning
1. Product Vision
2. Product Backlog
3. User stories
4. Estimation
5. Backlog Grooming/refinement
Workshop: Simulation of product envisioning and backlog grooming
meeting based on LEGO ZOO game.
Day 2
09:00 – 12:00
Iterative Product
Development
1. Sprint Planning
2. Sprint Execution with KANBAN (task boards, metrics)
3. Standup Meetings
4. Definition of Done and Sprint Review
5. Sprint Retrospective
Workshop: Simulation of sprint iterations based on LEGO ZOO game.
Teams will build task-board (Kanban), and run sprint meetings in
several iterations to identify potential dysfunctions.
Day 2
13:00 – 16:00
Agile Teams and Agile
Adoption
1. Team Dynamics
2. Pull vs Push
Workshop: Simulation of team pull vs. push and team self-
organization based on Penny Simulation Game.
3. Adopting Agile Methods
4. Common pitfalls
5. Tips for Getting Started
Self-Evaluation „So what, now what“:
What I have learned -> What is potential to be changed -> What can
be done in next month.