Agile Project Management with Scrum

– Project managagement: Traditional, agile, and hybrid
– Agility: Agile manifesto (values and principles), agile mindset, and culture of failure
– Scrum: Framework with roles, ceremonies, and artifacts
– Course project
– Scrum tools
– Large scale Scrum: scaled up version of one-team Scrum

The qualification goals mentioned below are subdivided into three dimensions. Each dimension corresponds to a target competence level. The following competence levels have been defined:

– Competence level 1 (awareness): cursory awareness of simple structures, only previously learned knowledge is tested
– Competence level 2 (comprehension): basic understanding of multiple structures up to deeper understanding of the relations between structure s, learned knowledge is analysed, combined and applied
– Competence level 3 (deep understanding and application): deeper understanding of the relations between structures up to independent transfer and extension of knowledge to new structures, learned knowle dge is critically questioned and/or evaluated, interrelations between structures and their consequences are reflected and explained

The competence level of the respective qualification goal is represented by the corresponding number (1, 2 or 3) in the comp etence descriptions below.
On completing the module the students will have achieved the following learning outcomes on the basis of scientific methods:

Subject skills
Students are able to understand the current role of agile project management and recognize the importance of agile approaches i.p. Scrum in today’s fast changing environment (3). Byworking in project teams on specific challenges, students are able to appl y the agile framework Scrum to practical application situations (3). Additionally, students are able to understand the value of considering both the IT and the business perspective (2).

Social skills
Students are aware of particular challenges in agile project environments (2). They are able to contribute to Scrum dicussions with profound arguments (2). Students are experienced working in interdisciplinary (virtual) project teams (3). By applying Sprint Retrospectives, students are able to inspect their te am collaboration and to create a plan for improvements (2). Moreover, they are able to apply english project management vocabulary (3).

Method skills
Students are familiar with the Scrum framework (3). This enables them to purposefully work on Scrum projec ts by recognizing and applying the Scrum values and principles (2). Additionally, students are aware of the most popular software tools (1).

Personal skills
Based on their newly acquired Scrum knowledge, students are able form a balanced judgement of the benefits and challenges of implementing Scrum and to defend personal views (2). Moreover, students are able to develop their own agile mindset (1).