1.  Course Overview

Agile is an iterative approach to project management and software development that helps teams deliver value to their customers faster and with fewer complications. Agile development is a different way of executing software development teams and projects. Scrum is a framework for developing and sustaining complex products. Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland developed Scrum and together, they stand behind the Scrum Rules. This course is structured to introduce project management concepts to the learner. Students will be trained through a series of practical classes whereby the instructor will ensure the students are in a position to gain skills that will enable them to effectively manage product development projects.

2.  Course Objective 

By the end of this program, the student will be able to: 

• Understand the meaning of scrum and the standards of scrum
• Understand how Agile projects work, their ability to estimate the user stories becomes much better and more accurate.
• Know the Agile Manifesto
• Understand the scrum framework
• Understand the role of each participant in Agile development
• Know typical sprint phases 
• Understand the scrum jargons

3.  What you will learn 

• Agile Development in Comparison to Traditional Development
• Agile Manifesto and Definition of Agile Manifesto items
• Key Principles of Agile Manifesto
• Agile Methodologies and the Benefits of Agile Framework
• Scrum Definition
• Processes in the Scrum Framework
• Definition of Sprint, the Sprint Phases
• Roles and Responsibilities of the Scrum Team
• Artifacts in the Scrum Process Framework
• The Scrum User Story and its Structure
• Scrum Tools (i.e., JIRA, TRELLO, Confluence, GitHub) to facilitate planning and tracking for Scrum projects
• Benefits and application areas of Scrum

4.  Teaching Strategy 

Each student will have a CodePamoja canvas account where the course syllabus, teaching materials and assignments will be shared by the instructor. This program will be conducted for 2 hours per day using both class room sessions and lab sessions led by the instructor. This course will be done in two semesters as follows.