Agile & Scrum Delivery Mastery
Ship Faster, Stake Happier
Run sprints that actually ship, backlog craft, story slicing, ceremonies people don't hate, metrics that matter, and stakeholder trust that compounds.
Who it is for: Product owners, scrum masters, team leads, and delivery managers in software and non-software teams alike.
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- 120 min/day
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What You Will Learn
Concrete, job-ready outcomes, hover (or tap) any point to see exactly where and how it is practiced inside the course.
- Facilitate every scrum ceremony with purpose (and strict timeboxes)
Days 1-2, The Agile Theatre Detector & the Sprint Clarity Canvas
Score your last sprint against the three tells, output worship, ritual compliance, tool religion, and re-anchor one ceremony to the value pair it protects, then install the Canvas: one page with Goal, honest Capacity, named Risks, and a Demo Plan that makes every commitment auditable.
ChatGPTClaude - Write user stories and acceptance criteria that survive development
Days 3-5, The Backlog Funnel, WSJF & the SPIDR Knife
A queue that says no for you, Catch, Clarify, Cost, Commit with the WSJF Scorecard that out-argues the loudest voice, then the 3C Story Loop with Gherkin criteria a tester can run without questions, and the five-blade Story Slicing Swiss Knife (Spike, Path, Interface, Data, Rules) that cuts any epic into demoable vertical slices.
ChatGPTClaude - Slice big epics with the Story Slicing Swiss Knife (SPIDR)
Days 6-7, The Velocity Truth Band & the Planning Workshop
Planning poker recalibrated with reference anchors and the rolling three-sprint band that plans reality instead of hope, then the 90-minute workshop: the Capacity Ledger that subtracts support before promising, the Commitment Ladder at 70% with pre-written demotion sentences, and a Friday demo booked before day one.
ChatGPTNotion AI - Estimate honestly with planning poker and velocity math
Days 8-9, Walk-the-Board & the Demo-Ladder Review
Fifteen minutes that recalibrate the day, right-to-left board walks, blocker sentences with owners and clocks, the five-rung escalation ladder, then the review stakeholders re-attend: live increment, their real scenarios, and the Harvester Grid routing every reaction to a backlog destination before the room empties.
ChatGPTClaude - Keep stakeholders aligned with sprint reviews they value
Days 10-11, The Retro Rocket & the Flow Signal Panel
A retrospective that cannot end without change, Launch data in silence, Orbit to one pattern, Land an Experiment Card with owner, date, and success signal, then the ninety-second daily health check: aging WIP, blocker age, handoffs, and variability, plus the WIP-limit experiment that pulls Little's Law in your favor.
ChatGPTClaude - Use burndown, cycle time and flow metrics without gaming them
Days 12-13, The Debt Wall & the Dependency Handshake
Keep the machine flowing, the Backlog Physical's five vitals on a monthly rhythm, technical debt priced in hours per sprint and paid on a 15-20% schedule, then the Stakeholder Heat Map's four zone plays and the five-clause Dependency Handshake that makes other teams' silence impossible to misread.
ChatGPTNotion AI - Run retrospectives that produce real change (Retro Rocket Ritual)
Days 14-15, The Scaling Pages & the Best-Sprint Blueprint
Lift the view, the Now-Next-Later Roadmap with confidence sentences instead of prophecy, the OKR Alignment Ladder linking company outcomes to sprint goals, then assemble all fourteen days into the five-phase Best-Sprint Blueprint and rehearse the eight hardest stakeholder objections with your own numbers.
ChatGPTClaude - Scale agile beyond one team, roadmaps, dependencies, OKRs
Hands-on practice, Built inside the course
You will practice this in a guided interactive lesson with a copy-paste prompt vault, a hands-on mission on your own real work, an auto-saved workbook and a knowledge quest, the same engine every day of this course runs on.
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Inside the Course
The engine behind every single day, hover (or tap) any card to see exactly what is included.
15 Days × 120 Min
A complete guided journey, one focused session a day, fully interactive, zero fluff.
Copy-Paste Prompt Vault
A professional prompt vault in every day, copy, paste, get results. Prompts become your assets.
Fully Engaging Workbooks
Interactive in-app workbooks with auto-save, plus fillable PDF, Word and printable versions.
Real-World Missions
Every exercise uses your actual job context, not toy examples. Practice while you learn.
Progress That Shows Everything
A living dashboard tracks every section, quiz and workbook field, and flags what is missing.
Certificate of Completion
Finish the journey and graduate with an official ZLearning certificate for your resume and LinkedIn.
Day-by-Day: Key Highlights
Exactly what happens on each day of your 15-day journey, hover (or tap) any day to see the full detail. Each day blends interactive lessons, a prompt vault, hands-on missions on your real work, a workbook and a knowledge quest, days unlock in sequence.
Agile Values vs Agile Theatre
Day 1 · 120 min · 8 sections
- See values, not rituals
- Install the Agile Theatre Detector
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Agile Values vs Agile Theatre
- See values, not rituals, Understand why the Agile Manifesto's four value pairs outrank any framework, and why teams that copy ceremonies without values get theatre, not delivery.
- Install the Agile Theatre Detector, Learn the three tells that expose agile theatre, output worship, ritual compliance, tool religion, and how to score your own team against them without flinching.
- Run the Values-in-Action Audit, Dissect your last sprint: which of the four value pairs your process actually served, and which it quietly betrayed while everyone followed the rules.
- Map the 15-day system, See the full journey, backlog craft, story slicing, estimation, ceremonies, flow metrics, scaling, and where today's honest baseline feeds your Day 15 capstone sprint.
Roles, Rituals & The Sprint Clarity Canvas
Day 2 · 120 min · 8 sections
- Install the Sprint Clarity Canvas
- Fix the role boundaries
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Roles, Rituals & The Sprint Clarity Canvas
- Install the Sprint Clarity Canvas, Master the four quadrants, Goal, Capacity, Risks, Demo Plan, that turn 'we'll try to finish the tickets' into a commitment you can demo on Friday.
- Fix the role boundaries, Separate Product Owner (owns value), Scrum Master (owns flow), and Developers (own quality), and spot the four blurs that make rituals everyone's job and therefore nobody's.
- Give every ritual an owner and output, Rebuild your five ceremonies with named owners, strict timeboxes, and a visible output, so attendance produces something, not just presence.
- Draft your sprint canvas, Fill a first Sprint Clarity Canvas for the sprint you will run this week, draft quality is fine; honesty is mandatory.
Product Backlogs That Prioritize Themselves
Day 3 · 120 min · 8 sections
- Install the Backlog Funnel
- Score with WSJF
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Product Backlogs That Prioritize Themselves
- Install the Backlog Funnel, Master the four stages, Catch, Clarify, Cost, Commit, that turn an unbounded idea dump into a short, ready, ordered queue.
- Score with WSJF, Learn Weighted Shortest Job First, user-business value, time criticality, risk reduction over job size, and why cheap-and-now often beats big-and-important.
- See what a healthy backlog looks like, Recognize the shape of a working funnel: thin at the top, ready at the bottom, and visibly saying no, instead of 400 items of dust.
- Rewrite your top ten, Take ten real items from your backlog through the funnel today and produce an ordered, scored top ten you would defend to your team.
User Stories & Acceptance Criteria
Day 4 · 120 min · 8 sections
- Install the 3C Story Loop
- Write Gherkin Guardrails
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User Stories & Acceptance Criteria
- Install the 3C Story Loop, Master Card (the promise), Conversation (the negotiation), Confirmation (the test), and why a story without all three is a ticket wearing a costume.
- Write Gherkin Guardrails, Turn vague 'should work smoothly' criteria into Given/When/Then statements a tester can execute and a machine could check.
- See what stories cost when written badly, Internalize the rework numbers, the price of 'done but wrong' versus minutes of upfront conversation.
- Rewrite your worst story, Take one real story that has failed recently and rebuild it through the full loop, with criteria its own tester signs off on.
SPIDR: Slice Epics Like a Chef
Day 5 · 120 min · 8 sections
- Install the SPIDR knife
- Apply the Vertical Slice Test
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SPIDR: Slice Epics Like a Chef
- Install the SPIDR knife, Master the five blades, Spike, Path, Interface, Data, Rules, and which epic shapes each one cuts best.
- Apply the Vertical Slice Test, Check every slice walks the whole path, interface to logic to data, so it demos instead of being a layer sandwich.
- Slice a real epic, Take your team's scariest epic and produce five sprint-ready slices with demoable outcomes.
- Right-size your queue, Learn the size band sprint-ready stories live in, and how slicing changes your velocity math honestly.
Estimation & Velocity Math
Day 6 · 120 min · 8 sections
- Install the Velocity Truth Band
- Recalibrate planning poker
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Estimation & Velocity Math
- Install the Velocity Truth Band, Compute your rolling three-sprint average with a min-max band, the honest range you commit to, instead of last sprint's number as a quota.
- Recalibrate planning poker, Learn the reference-story technique and the two-card spread rule that keep estimates comparable across the whole team.
- Know what velocity is for, Separate planning signal from performance target, and see exactly how teams destroy their own data by gaming it.
- Commit to a range, Rewrite your next sprint commitment as a Truth Band, most-likely with honest low and high, and defend it to stakeholders.
Sprint Planning Workshop
Day 7 · 120 min · 8 sections
- Install the Commitment Ladder
- Build the Capacity Ledger
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Sprint Planning Workshop
- Install the Commitment Ladder, Structure scope in three rungs, must-ship for the goal, should-ship for the value, stretch for slack, so plans bend without breaking.
- Build the Capacity Ledger, Subtract ceremonies, support rotas, leave, and meetings from gross days, the honest number the ladder climbs.
- Run the 90-minute workshop, Master the five-step agenda that fits planning into 90 minutes for a two-week sprint, with the Canvas filled live, not after.
- Leave with a demo plan, End planning with the Friday commitment named, who demos what, on whose data, instead of 'we'll see'.
Daily Standups Without the Zombie Mode
Day 8 · 120 min · 8 sections
- Diagnose your zombie mode
- Install Walk-the-Board
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Daily Standups Without the Zombie Mode
- Diagnose your zombie mode, Recognize the four standup failures, status report to the boss, the 30-minute chronicle, the silent update, the solution design session, and which one yours has become.
- Install Walk-the-Board, Run the standup at the board, right to left: what is closest to done, what moves today, what is blocked, tickets talk, not people reporting.
- Install the Blocker Escalation Ladder, Give every blocker a clock and a path, self, pair, team, Scrum Master, sponsor, so nothing dies quietly in 'I'll look into it'.
- Re-anchor to the goal, End every standup with the goal sentence and today's calibration, did the plan change, and if not, why not?
Sprint Reviews Stakeholders Love
Day 9 · 120 min · 8 sections
- Install the Demo-Ladder Review
- Run the Feedback Harvester Grid
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Sprint Reviews Stakeholders Love
- Install the Demo-Ladder Review, Climb three rungs, Done demo, Real scenario, Feedback harvest, each rung more truthful than the last, none skippable.
- Run the Feedback Harvester Grid, Capture every reaction into four quadrants, Like, Wonder, Concern, Idea, each with a named backlog destination.
- Fix the audience problem, Diagnose why your stakeholders stopped attending or stopped talking, and rebuild the invitation around decisions, not updates.
- Script your next review, Prepare Friday's review end to end: scenario, driver, data, harvest questions, and the one decision the meeting must produce.
The Retro Rocket Ritual
Day 10 · 120 min · 8 sections
- Install the Retro Rocket Ritual
- Write Experiment Cards
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The Retro Rocket Ritual
- Install the Retro Rocket Ritual, Master the three phases, Launch (gather data safely), Orbit (find the pattern), Land (commit the experiment), and why the order matters.
- Write Experiment Cards, Turn 'we should communicate better' into an experiment: hypothesis, change, owner, date, success signal, small enough to test in one sprint.
- Diagnose your retro's failure mode, Recognize the four anti-patterns, blame parade, eternal items, skipped retros, feedback funeral, and which one your team suffers.
- Connect the loop, See how the Rocket closes the system: the Canvas sets the sprint, the review tests it, the retro improves the machine that ran it.
Flow Metrics: Cycle Time & WIP
Day 11 · 120 min · 8 sections
- Master cycle time
- Install the Flow Signal Panel
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Flow Metrics: Cycle Time & WIP
- Master cycle time, Learn what cycle time actually measures, work start to user value, and why its distribution tells you more than its average.
- Install the Flow Signal Panel, Watch the four signals, aging WIP, blockers, handoffs, variability, the early-warning system that predicts sprint trouble before it lands.
- Pull the Little's Law Lever, Understand the one equation that governs delivery, Flow = WIP ÷ Cycle Time, and why starting less is the only honest way to finish more.
- Run a WIP experiment, Set a WIP limit on your board, measure what happens, and let the data, not opinion, argue with your team's 'we work better in parallel'.
Backlog Health & Debt Management
Day 12 · 120 min · 8 sections
- Run the Backlog Physical
- Install the Debt Wall
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Backlog Health & Debt Management
- Run the Backlog Physical, Check the five vitals, Fresh, Ranked, Estimated, Sized, Linked, and score your backlog's health in ten minutes.
- Install the Debt Wall, Make technical debt visible and priced: what it costs per sprint, who owns it, and the capacity percentage that pays it down on schedule.
- Stop the silt, Learn why backlogs accumulate dead items, and the retirement rituals that keep the queue short without losing anything that matters.
- Protect your flow, Connect backlog health to yesterday's flow metrics, the silt you remove today is the cycle time you keep tomorrow.
Stakeholder & Dependency Management
Day 13 · 120 min · 8 sections
- Install the Stakeholder Heat Map
- Install the Dependency Handshake
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Stakeholder & Dependency Management
- Install the Stakeholder Heat Map, Map everyone on power and interest, Manage Closely, Keep Satisfied, Keep Informed, Monitor, and learn the play each zone demands.
- Install the Dependency Handshake, Write the five-clause contract for every cross-team dependency, who, what, by when, fallback, signal, so silence stops being a plan.
- Defuse escalations early, Recognize the escalation path stakeholders take around you, hallway, boss, meeting ambush, and intercept it with the right zone play.
- Contract your riskiest dependency, Take the cross-team wait that hurts most and turn it into a signed, visible, fallback-carrying handshake today.
Scaling Agile: Roadmaps & OKRs
Day 14 · 120 min · 8 sections
- Install the Now-Next-Later Roadmap
- Install the OKR Alignment Ladder
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Scaling Agile: Roadmaps & OKRs
- Install the Now-Next-Later Roadmap, Replace date promises with confidence zones, Now (committed), Next (likely), Later (exploring), and say what each zone honestly means.
- Install the OKR Alignment Ladder, Connect company key results to team OKRs to sprint goals, one page, checkable links, no layer-upon-layer of restated tasks.
- Scale ceremonies without bloat, Learn the minimal scaling patterns, Scrum of Scrums, Lean Portfolio approaches, and the meeting math that keeps scaling from consuming delivery.
- Draw your own two artifacts, Draft your context's roadmap and ladder today, draft quality, mandatory honesty, one page each.
Capstone: Run Your Best Sprint Yet
Day 15 · 120 min · 8 sections
- Assemble the Best-Sprint Blueprint
- Survive the eight questions
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Capstone: Run Your Best Sprint Yet
- Assemble the Best-Sprint Blueprint, Build the complete run-of-show, planning to retro, with every framework in its slot, on one page you can run from.
- Survive the eight questions, Rehearse the hardest challenges, 'velocity is down', 'we don't have time for this', 'the deadline is fixed', with answers grounded in your own numbers.
- Commit the first flight, Book your next sprint under the Blueprint: canvas date, ladder, demo plan, retro, named owners, real dates.
- Leave with the compounding loop, See the whole machine as one loop, canvas, sprint, review, retro, physical, roadmap, and know exactly which gear to tighten first when it slows.
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