SCRUM Framework – Agile Method ONLINE

Aims

Students will learn how to work on projects using the Agile Method and the Scrum Framework. They will get an insight into the tools needed for this approach and learn how to use them to communicate effectively. In the end, they will have realized their own project: a movie of origami shows.

Content

Agile is an iterative approach to project management that helps teams deliver value to their customers faster than with traditional approaches. Instead of betting everything on a "big bang" launch, an agile team delivers work in small, but consumable, increments. Requirements, plans, and results are evaluated continuously so teams have a natural mechanism for responding to change quickly.

Scrum is a framework that helps teams work together. Much like a rugby team (where it gets its name from) training for the big game, Scrum encourages teams to learn through experiences, self-organize while working on a problem, and reflect on their wins and losses to continuously improve. While Scrum was originally developed and used by software development teams, its principles and lessons can be applied to all kinds of teamwork. This is one of the reasons Scrum is so popular. Often thought of as an agile project management framework, Scrum describes a set of meetings, tools, and roles that work in concert to help teams structure and manage their work.

Methods

Students will learn the Agile Method by practicing all activities and producing all expected artifacts defined by the Scrum Framework. The week will start with an overview of the Scrum Framework and the presentation of the professional tools that will be used online. Students will learn how to work in teams, how to collaborate, schedule and communicate. They will use professionals’ tools to help them with those tasks: Jira to share and plan the tasks, Confluence to document the work, a chat tool, Slack, to communicate and Visio platform to organize meetings. The project used to practice all concepts above will be producing a movie of origami show.

Target Group

All Doctoral Candidates & Postdocs

Requirements

Working knowledge of English (B2 level)

About the Trainer

Daniel Da Fonseca works at the University of Haute-Alsace as SCRUM Master and teaches project management for two innovative courses, UHA 4.0 and Disrupt 4.0. Before joining UHA in 2017, he worked for two IT companies, Oracle and Tekelec. Graduate in computer science and IT project management, he wants to bring project management skills used in the IT sector to students of various backgrounds.

Workload

About 40 hours during the five days of the workshop, which includes presentations by the instructor, discussions and group work as well as autonomous and individual work. The scheduling details will be communicated at the end of August.

Feature

Once registration is open, applications will be collected for 24 hours and course places allocated by lot. All registrations received after the initial 24h period will be put on a waiting list and assigned on a first come, first served basis.

Course places/places on the waiting list will be confirmed by e-mail. Course registrations can only be canceled before the registration period ends (send an e-mail to grace@unibas.ch). Full course attendance is mandatory. Participants who fail to attend a course without prior notification or withdraw after the registration deadline are subject to a fee of CHF 30. In addition, participants who cancel their course registration at a later point in time, are absent without an excuse or do not attend the entire course will, for reasons of fairness, not be considered for course registration in the following semester and will be removed from other courses offered in the same semester. Please find the detailed regulations on the Transferable Skills Homepage.