The Scrum Repair Guide - Get Agile Teams Back on Track

This course features Coursera Coach! A smarter way to learn with interactive, real-time conversations that help you test your knowledge, challenge assumptions, and deepen your understanding as you progress through the course. Struggling Scrum teams often face hidden challenges—unclear goals, poor collaboration, ineffective backlog management, and misaligned roles. This course helps you diagnose what’s going wrong and provides practical strategies to restore agility, improve team alignment, and drive better outcomes. You’ll learn how to identify common Scrum dysfunctions, strengthen team collaboration, and implement frameworks like OKRs to guide meaningful progress. The course begins by helping you evaluate the current health of your Scrum team and understand why Scrum initiatives frequently fail. You will analyze common pitfalls such as blindly following best practices, unclear goals, trust issues, and the damaging effects of micromanagement. Through practical exercises, you’ll assess team performance and implement proven techniques to improve alignment and collaboration. Next, the course revisits Scrum’s core values and demonstrates how they can guide better decision-making and team culture. You’ll explore ways to optimize the Product Backlog, clarify the Product Owner’s responsibilities, and address issues such as multiple backlogs or unclear product vision. Along the way, hands-on exercises will help you refine sprint retrospectives, backlog prioritization, and stakeholder communication. The course is designed for Scrum Masters, Agile coaches, developers, product managers, and team leaders who want to improve the effectiveness of their Scrum teams. Beginners with a basic understanding of Agile concepts can benefit, while experienced practitioners will gain actionable techniques for troubleshooting real-world Scrum challenges. By the end of the course, you will be able to diagnose common Scrum failures, strengthen Scrum roles and responsibilities, improve backlog management and sprint processes, and implement practical strategies to restore team alignment, productivity, and value delivery.