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Scrum Repair Guide

The Essential Companion for Solving Scrum Problems

There are many video courses that show you how to use Scrum but only the Scrum Repair Guide shows you how to fix the most frustrating, real-life problems. This is the first online video course to go beyond basics and deal with the most difficult challenges you’ll inevitably experience when implementing Scrum.

 

What You Get

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Lifetime, instant access to more than 3 hours of content

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9 modules of content, including 36 professionally-recorded videos

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Quizzes to test your knowledge

Why Take Scrum Repair Guide

Nearly 1,000 students have signed-up for, and benefited from this course. Like them, you’ll get instant and lifetime access to the online video course comprising seven modules (see below for details of each module). 

Each module contains advice to identify and solve the problems that threaten your Scrum projects. And with videos between 2-11 minutes, you can learn when it suits your schedule.

The Scrum Repair Guide gets you back on track so you can focus on the very reason for using Scrum: shipping high-quality products with maximum speed and efficiency. 

Whether you’re a new or seasoned Scrum practitioner, this course will help you: 

  • Pinpoint problems quickly and find solutions before productivity is at risk.
  • Access practical tools for managing stakeholder requests while protecting the team.
  • Energize and focus team members so they collaborate more effectively.

Welcome

  • Welcome to the Scrum Repair Guide
 

The Product Backlog

  • Grooming the Product Backlog: What It Means and Why It's So Important
  • Choosing When to Groom the Product Backlog — In a Meeting or as Needed?
  • Handling Technical Work on the Product Backlog
  • Writing Product Backlog Items of the Right Size
  • Writing Product Backlog Items with the Right Amount of Detail

Estimating and Planning

  • Estimating Product Backlog Items: Why and When to Do It?
  • Overcoming a Fear of Estimating
  • Estimates from Becoming Commitments
  • Claim Credit Only for What Is Completely Done
 

Sprinting

  • Selecting the Right Sprint Length
  • Five Reasons Teams Don't Deliver Everything in a Sprint
  • What to Do If You Think You Can't Have Anything Potentially Shippable by the End of a Sprint
  • Avoiding Leaving Unfinished Work at the End of a Sprint
  • Minding the Gap: Why You Should Run Sprints Back to Back
  • Handling Firefighting During a Sprint

Problems During Meetings

  • Sprint Planning: Saving Time in Scrum's Longest Meeting
  • Sprint Planning: Avoiding Overcommitting in a Sprint
  • The Daily Scrum Should Be Attended, Not Run
  • Breaking the Daily Scrum Time Box for Distributed Teams
  • Conducting a Review When Not Everything Is Demonstratable

Stakeholders

  • Managing Stakeholder Expectations
  • Handling Early Requests to Lock Down Scope, Schedule, and Cost
  • Moving Away from Written Documentation

Teamwork

  • Convincing Team Members to Work Outside Their Roles
  • Fitting User Experience Design into Scrum
  • Leaving Time for Testing: How to Spread Work Evenly Across the Sprint
  • Adding Automation When Little or None Exists
  • Confronting Agile Hoarders: What to Do When a Team Member Wants Sole Ownership of a Product Backlog Item
  • Dealing with an Overly Busy Product Owner

Culture

  • Preventing Burnout from Sprints
  • Separating Programming and Testing Sprints — Why It's a Bad Idea
  • Managing Risk on Scrum Projects
  • Understanding How Project Managers Fit into Scrum
  • Rewarding a Team for a Job Well Done

Conclusion

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This course goes much further than just treating basics. It really deals with well-known problems probably every Scrum Master and/or Scrum Coach experiences. Mike always offers several solutions considering different circumstances introducing appropriate examples as well. With his extensive knowledge of all parts of agility he convinces and encourages me to try out his hints without hesitation. I really like the length of the videos, all necessary is said and all unnecessary is omitted. The content is really absolutely substantial, interesting and helpful. I recommend this course to every practising SM and agile Coach.

Eve Gysling
Mike has this rare ability of examining complex situations with a lot of gray areas and presenting them with sound recommendations and without any nonsense in simple black and white. Thank you Mike.
Hector Rovira
This course was absolutely packed with tips, advice, and best practices for both avoiding and resolving issues that occur in using Scrum. I probably checked off a dozen or more issues that I personally experienced over the past 4-5 years that I'd have paid big money for to have the insights that Mike provided in this course. This was by far the most practical, useful course on Scrum I've ever taken. I plan to review this course over again as there is just so much useful stuff.
Gregory Luze
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Mountain Goat has handpicked instructors that share our training values. These are people with deep experience, who are leading teams with agile today and can give you real-world answers about what does and doesn’t work.

Mike Cohn

With 20+ years of agile training experience, Mike has honed a talent for explaining agile concepts with clear illustrations and real-life examples. Participants enjoy his passion for teaching the agile methodologies in a relatable and digestible way. 

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