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Every lesson and question is written for this course in original wording. It teaches from the current Scrum Guide (November 2020), the Kanban Guide for Scrum Teams and the Evidence-Based Management Guide, each offered under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 licence, and quotes none of them at length. The Scrum Guide revision notes are used only for facts about what changed in 2020, and Scrum.org's certification page only for the facts about the assessment. No real assessment questions, Scrum.org practice assessments, Scrum.org course or website material, or commercial test-prep material are reproduced. Diagrams are drawn for this course.

The Scrum Guide (November 2020), Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland

Lesson 0: Purpose of the Scrum Guide; Scrum Team; Scrum Events
Lesson 1: Purpose of the Scrum Guide; Scrum Definition; Scrum Theory (Transparency, Inspection, Adaptation); End Note
Lesson 2: Scrum Values; Scrum Team; Sprint Planning (Topic Three); Sprint Goal
Lesson 3: Purpose of the Scrum Guide; Scrum Theory; Scrum Team
Lesson 4: Product Owner; Scrum Team; The Sprint; Sprint Planning; Daily Scrum; Sprint Review; Commitment: Product Goal
Lesson 5: Scrum Master; Scrum Team; Daily Scrum; Product Owner
Lesson 6: Purpose of the Scrum Guide; Developers; Sprint Planning (Topics Two and Three); Daily Scrum; Product Backlog; Sprint Backlog; Commitment: Sprint Goal; Commitment: Definition of Done
Lesson 7: Scrum Events; The Sprint; Increment
Lesson 8: Sprint Planning (Topics One to Three); Product Backlog; Sprint Backlog; Commitment: Sprint Goal; Scrum Master
Lesson 9: Daily Scrum; Scrum Master; Scrum Events
Lesson 10: Sprint Review; Increment; Commitment: Definition of Done; Scrum Master; Scrum Events
Lesson 11: Sprint Retrospective; Scrum Master; Scrum Values; Commitment: Definition of Done
Lesson 12: Scrum Artifacts; Product Backlog; Commitment: Product Goal; Product Owner; Scrum Team; The Sprint
Lesson 13: Sprint Backlog; Commitment: Sprint Goal; Sprint Planning; Daily Scrum; The Sprint; Developers
Lesson 14: Scrum Artifacts; Increment; Commitment: Definition of Done; Developers; Sprint Retrospective
Lesson 15: Scrum Team; Scrum Master; Scrum Values; Scrum Events
Lesson 16: The Sprint (forecasting practices); Sprint Planning (Topic Two); Increment
Lesson 17: Product Owner; Scrum Team; Sprint Review; Commitment: Product Goal
Lesson 18: Purpose of the Scrum Guide; Scrum Definition; Scrum Team; The Sprint; Commitment: Definition of Done; End Note
Lesson 19: The whole Guide, for revision

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Scrum Guide Revisions, scrumguides.org

Lesson 0: Changes between 2017 and 2020 Scrum Guides
Lesson 3: Changes between 2017 and 2020: One Team, Focused on One Product; Self-Managing over Self-Organizing
Lesson 7: Changes between 2017 and 2020: Even Less Prescriptive (shortened Sprint cancellation section)
Lesson 8: Changes between 2017 and 2020: Three Sprint Planning Topics
Lesson 9: Changes between 2017 and 2020: Even Less Prescriptive (removed Daily Scrum questions)
Lesson 11: Changes between 2017 and 2020: Even Less Prescriptive (softened language around retro items in Sprint Backlog)
Lesson 12: Changes between 2017 and 2020: Introduction of Product Goal
Lesson 18: Changes between 2017 and 2020 Scrum Guides

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The Evidence-Based Management Guide (May 2024), Scrum.org

Lesson 17: Definition of EBM; Setting Goals; Understanding What is Valuable; Hypotheses, Experiments, Features, and Requirements; Key Value Areas; Appendix
Lesson 18: Ability to Innovate (A2I)
Lesson 19: Understanding What is Valuable; Key Value Areas

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Scrum.org, Professional Scrum Master I Certification

Lesson 0: Certification details; focus areas; translation and accommodations
Lesson 19: Certification details

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The Kanban Guide for Scrum Teams (January 2021), Scrum.org, Daniel Vacanti and Yuval Yeret

Lesson 16: Definition of Kanban; The Basic Metrics of Flow; Little's Law; Kanban Practices; Definition of Workflow; Service Level Expectation; Flow-Based Events
Lesson 19: The Basic Metrics of Flow

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Snowden, D. J. and Boone, M. E., 'A Leader's Framework for Decision Making', Harvard Business Review, November 2007

Lesson 1: The Cynefin framework's contexts (simple, now called clear; complicated; complex; chaotic)

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Bill Wake, 'INVEST in Good Stories, and SMART Tasks' (XP123, 2003)

Lesson 12: The INVEST checklist for user stories

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Martin Fowler, 'Continuous Integration' (martinfowler.com)

Lesson 14: Practices of continuous integration; continuous delivery

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Martin Fowler, 'Definition of Refactoring' (martinfowler.com)

Lesson 14: Refactoring as behaviour-preserving change to internal structure

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Tuckman, B. W., 'Developmental Sequence in Small Groups', Psychological Bulletin 63(6), 1965; adjourning added by Tuckman and Jensen, 1977

Lesson 15: Forming, storming, norming and performing

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Kaner, S. et al., Facilitator's Guide to Participatory Decision-Making, 3rd edition (Jossey-Bass, 2014)

Lesson 15: The Diamond of Participatory Decision-Making: divergent zone, groan zone, convergent zone

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Liberating Structures, '1-2-4-All', Henri Lipmanowicz and Keith McCandless

Lesson 15: 1-2-4-All

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Steve McConnell, 'The Cone of Uncertainty' (Construx)

Lesson 16: Why early estimates are wide, and narrow only as decisions remove variability

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Stakeholder analysis and Mendelow's power-interest grid (overview: Wikipedia, 'Stakeholder analysis')

Lesson 17: Power and interest mapping of stakeholders

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