Technical Excellence: Foundations for Delivering Value with Scrum and AI

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1. Registration is FREE. However, since seats are very limited, please plan to attend both days should you decide to register.
2. Participants will receive a Certificate of Completion upon successful completion of the two-day workshop.
3. Morning break is provided on both days. Lunch is not provided.

Facilitator: Victor Loke, MCC, CST® - Board Executive Coach

Course Overview
This two-day interactive workshop introduces the practical foundations of effective product development in Scrum. Participants will explore how Developers work within a Scrum Team to build architecture and design incrementally, write tests before code, integrate continuously, and turn Product Backlog Items into usable Increments of value.
Through discussions and hands-on technical exercises, participants will experience how sound engineering practices enable teams to deliver working software in small, safe, frequent slices. We will also visit how AI-augmented development and Specification-Driven Development are beginning to reshape these practices, setting the stage and preparing participants for where the craft is heading next.
The course is aligned with the Certifi ed Scrum Developer® (CSD®) learning objectives, but is offered independently as an uncertifi ed community learning initiative.

Who should attend

Current or aspiring Developers working on Scrum Teams
Engineers looking to strengthen their understanding of Scrum and agile engineering practices
Technical Leads and Architects wanting a practical, hands-on grounding in incremental design
Agile practitioners who work closely with development teams
QA Engineers and Testers interested in Test-Driven Development and continuous integration
Anyone curious about how AI-assisted and agentic coding tools are changing technical practices

Prerequisites
None.

Requirements
Please bring along your laptop or digital device with keyboard for your course materials and Scrum simulation. Physical notes will not be printed.

Course Outline
Day 1 AM — Scrum & Developers Foundations

Why Agile? From “predict and control” to “inspect and adapt”
Scrum theory, values, pillars and framework
The Scrum Team and its accountabilities
Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog and the Increment
Developers and self-management
Working directly with customers and users

Day 1 PM — Architecture, Design & Technical Excellence

Technical excellence in agile product development
Incremental architecture and design
Designing for change and continuous learning
Reducing technical debt and defects
Test Driven Development and the Red-Green-Refactor cycle

Day 2 AM — Agile Engineering in Practice

Recap of incremental development and technical excellence
Slicing work into small, valuable and testable increments
Elephant Carpaccio Exercise for Developers
Definition of Done and Continuous Integration

Day 2 PM — AI-augmented Development and Automation

Automated build, test and delivery pipelines
AI-augmented Scrum product development
Specification Driven Development
Team effectiveness and continual improvement
Applying agile engineering practices to the organisation

This is an independent, uncertified community learning programme designed with reference to the Certified Scrum Developer® (CSD®) Learning Objectives. Participation does not include Scrum Alliance certification or confer a CSD® credential.