Is your team answering the same three questions at stand up but not seeing any work move?

Are you overcommitting to every sprint and stuck with endless carry over?

Do your retrospectives feel like the same conversations with little impact?

Then your Scrum Team needs Flow Metrics! In this course, you will learn how to leverage four simple data points to help your Scrum Team break the cycle of endless status and move towards informed decisions, accurate planning, and actionable improvements.

This workshop will teach you not only how to identify how much work to plan but also how to accurately forecast when individual work will be done in a Scrum Team's context. Predict delivery, deliver on time.

Learning Outcomes

After the course, learners will be able to:

• Leverage metrics for accurate Sprint Planning
• Use forecasts in Daily Scrum to organize around work in progress
• Track progress toward critical dates and deliverables
• Identify opportunities for measurable team improvements
• Tools for Product Backlog Item refinement to increase flow

Who Should Attend

The Applying Flow Metrics for Scrum course is for anyone who wants to leverage data to improve their Scrum practices. This includes developers, testers, Scrum Masters, Product Owners or leaders who want better transparency into the health and performance of their team.

Topics

• Flow Metrics: WIP, Work Item Age, Cycle Time and Throughput
• Application to Scrum Events (Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective)
• Flow Analytics: Cumulative Flow Diagrams (CFDs), Scatterplots and Monte Carlo
• How to Get Started: What data to collect, how to mine your data

Validated Learning

After taking the course, you will have an opportunity to validate that you understand Flow Metrics for Scrum topics. We will invite you to take an online assessment that evaluates your understanding and provides you with guidance on areas to improve. Should you pass the assessment, you will receive the “Professional Flow Metrics for Scrum” (PFMS) certification and will be issued credentials through Credly.

Your Instructors

Prateek Singh
Prateek Singh has been leading and working on agile teams for almost two decades. Starting with XP, then Scrum and now working in a Kanban system, He has gained a breadth and depth of knowledge regarding agile techniques, practices, and implementation principles. Prateek has played the role of Software Engineer, Scrum Master, Agile Coach, Manager of Software Engineering, Director of Engineering, and Director of Business Agility in his career. Prateek is currently the Head of Learning and Development at ProKanban.org and an Independent Consultant. He is also the co-host of the Drunk Agile podcast.

Colleen Johnson
Colleen is the CEO of ProKanban.org. She is also co-founder of ScatterSpoke and co-author of the The Kanban Pocket Guide.
She has presented and taught agile to audiences around the world. As a coach, she has worked across a range of industries with clients like Wells Fargo, eTrade, Home Depot, Tanium, Gemini, and more. Colleen helps organizations apply a systems thinking approach to aligning agile methodologies end-to-end. She has served as a board member for Agile Denver, the Agile Uprising, and chair of the Mile High Agile Conference.

What's Included

• 3 half-days of highly engaging, activity based training with Prateek Singh and Colleen Johnson.
• Exam token to take the Flow Metrics for Scrum (PFMS) certification by ProKanban.org.
• Digital copy of course materials.