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Agile in audit – scrum fundamentals

Presented By
Derek Davidson Derek is a professional scrum trainer and agile coach. He has significant practical experience of working in agile environments, both as a practitioner and as an agile coach. He has also worked in internal audit departments, predominantly for financial institutions.

AIA scrum fundamentals is a bespoke training course created specifically for auditors. As well as covering the scrum framework, this course covers recommended techniques that can be applied on top of the scrum framework. 

Learning will be via a mix of instruction and team-based exercises. The roles, events, artefacts and rules of scrum are taught, demonstrated and practiced. Common anti-patterns and misunderstandings are addressed so you can apply scrum more effectively.


Who should attend?

This course is designed for anyone working on an agile audit.


What will I learn?

The course material provides you with all you need to become a productive agile auditor working on agile audits.

As a result of attending this course you:

  • will be able to leverage the benefits of scrum
  • are challenged to act in terms of scrum
  • take away an increased understanding of how to collaborate better and work as a team in a context of scrum
  • gain a clear understanding of the foundational elements of scrum and their coherence
  • leave the class with a handful of tips to identify common pitfalls and dysfunctions
  • will be able to take part in a scrum team and be more effective at delivering value.

Course programme

The course programme will cover:

  • Agreeing audit basics
  • Foundations of agility
  • Foundations of scrum
  • When to use what
  • Scrum framework basics
  • Case study product
  • Scrum roles
  • Scrum events
  • Scrum artefacts
  • Product backlog activities
  • Sprint backlog activities
  • The increment
  • Planning, forecasting and estimating
  • Scrum for auditing
  • Distributed scrum
  • Performance improvements
  • Getting started on audits with scrum.

CPE Competency areas covered

  • Improvement and innovation
  • Internal audit delivery
  • Persuasion and collaboration

14 CPE points


Full price

Member: £1175 + VAT
Non-member: £1390 + VAT

SAVE £200 when you book this course 3 months in advance


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