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July 2023

Backlog course July 2026 table
Sprint Day Date Topics Details Topics
#1 01 01/07/2026 - Cifo, Course, Teacher Introduction (2023 edition, why 100h course?)
- Reference Books
- What is SCRUM and what is not
- SCRUM and mind (cognitive and learning):
(1) Intention
(2) Attention
(3) Hemispheres
(4) Metacognition
- Signal/Noise

- 3 pilars SCRUM:
(1) Transparency
(2) Inspection
(3) Adaptation

- Class work: student’s introduction and project’s ideas
- 2023 edition

- The Intelligence Trap
- Mindset
- The Righteous Mind
- The status game
- Stolen Focus
- Getting Things Done
- SCRUM
- Mind Management Not Time Management

- Scrum concepts
02 02/07/2026 - SCRUM: Manifesto
- What is a boycott and why? Meetings are hell!
- SCRUM: iteration cycle at mind, at teamwork, at AI

- Lateralization: hemispheres (McGilchrist)

- Week#01: meetings, impediments and iterations

- SCRUM cycle: plan, execute, review and retrospect
- SCRUM roles: Scrum Master, Product Owner, Team, Specialist
- Artifacts: product backlog
- CIA Sabotage
- Attention is All We Have
- Attention is all you need

- Week#01
03 03/07/2026 - Lateralization, Attention, Salience, Metacognition and Intention

- SCRUM Guide
- SCRUM definition

- Week#01: meetings, impediments and iterations

- Approaches Multi-Agent App I: 2 teams and defining task areas
- Week#01

- SCRUM Guide
- Manifesto
- Metacognition
#2 04 06/07/2026 - Planning Sprint#2:
(1) Plan Approaches Multi-Agent
(2) Plan readings
(3) Plan syllabus

- Week 1: Meetings, Impediments and Iterations

- SCRUM Guide
- Approaches Multi-Agent App: AWS Architecture

- Week#01
- SCRUM Guide
- Scrum Summary
- AWS / bedrock

- Multi-Agent App AWS Architecture
05 07/07/2026 - Week 2: User stories, Tasks and Habits

- SCRUM:
(1) Guide: values
(2) Manifesto: 12 principles
(3) Meetings: does we need it? really? roles? time? goal/type? boycotts? nextTo?

- CifoLab 13:00
- Week#02
- SCRUM Guide
- Agile Project Success and Failure (The Story of the FBI Sentinel Program)
- SCRUM: summary

06 08/07/2026 - Week 2: User stories, Tasks and Habits
- Week 3: Delivering Value & Communication

- SCRUM
(1) Manifesto: 12 principles
(2) Meetings: does we need it? really? roles? time? goal/type? metrics? boycotts? nextTo?
(3) Meetings: counter-measures
(4) decision-making: type? irrelevant decision-making discussion
(5) decision-making: irreversible or not? high-complexity or not?
- Week#03
- SCRUM Manifesto: 12 principles
07 09/07/2026 - Week 2: User stories, Tasks and Habits
- Week 3: Delivering Value & Communication
- Week 4: ScrumMaster, how it works


- SCRUM:
(1) Manifesto: 12 principles
(2) common vocabulary: scrum vocabulary, linkein, etc..
(3) definition of done: why, done-template, counter-mesures, metrics
(4) planning poker fibonacci: decision-making

- Week#04
- SCRUM Manifesto: 12 principles
- complex system

- linkedin job
08 10/07/2026 - Week 2: User stories, Tasks and Habits
- Week 3: Delivering Value & Communication
- Week 4: ScrumMaster, how it works
- Week 5: Mindset, the key to everything


- SCRUM:
(1) Review Sprint#1: Approaches Multi-Agent App
(2) TasK AND done: INVEST
(3) Jira backlog

- Cognitive loads
- Week#05
- Week#02
#3 09 13/07/2026 - Plan Spring#3: SCRUM concepts, project, tests, books

- Approaches Multi-Agent App II: planning spring. Jira backlog
- Week 3: Delivering Value & Communication
- Week 4: ScrumMaster, how it works
- Week 5: Mindset, the key to everything


- SCRUM: meetings as a cognitive cycle
- Meeting mindset:
(1) match goal vs meeting type
(2) focus and hemisphere
(3) Emotional engagement
(4) Thinking engagement

- Rider and the Elephant: moral emotions
- Week#03 / Week#04 / Week#05

neutrality.org / neutrality project


- Rider and the Elephant
- The Righteous Mind
- The Righteous Mind web

- Wiki
10 14/07/2026 - Week 4: ScrumMaster, how it works
- Week 6: Product Owner, how it works
- Week 8: Team & the Specialist

- ScrumMaster tools: on the same page
- Intention > Salience > Attention > Metacognition

- TeamWork tools:
on the same page + decision making focused on client through different approaches
- TeamWork definition:
to do, every time, what project needs
when it needs (at particular moment),
and even more, not to do what it really does not need
Week#04 / Week#06 / Week#08



- Metacognition
- The zone
11 15/07/2026 - Week 6: Product Owner, how it works
- Week 8: Team & the Specialist

- Week 5: Mindset, the key to everything
(1) mindset types: growth & fixed
(2) examples
(3) survival mindset
(4) purpose
- Week#05

12 16/07/2026 - Week 5: Mindset, the key to everything
(1) the soviet union delusion
(2) the divided brain
(3) skin in the game and antifragile
(4) survival mindset

- The divided mind: learning
(1) Picnic: need, why, context, whoole, what it does, for what, etc
(2) Mechanics: rules, details, part, system, concepts, etc
(3) Consolidation: how this knowledge push to next step

- Learning examples: git & english
- The divided brain: video

- Week#5
13 17/07/2026 - Week 5: Mindset, the key to everything
(1) the soviet union delusion
(2) the divided brain: metrics & learning
(3) skin in the game and antifragile

- Approaches Multi-Agent App: Revision and Retrospective

- Books: Scrum, Focus, The intelligence trap

+ How ScrumMaster implements Scrum in a dysfunctional team? Break the team, implant new rules, apply SCRUM to remove impediments
- Experiment Milgram

- The Intelligence Trap
- Mindset
- The Righteous Mind
- The status game
- Stolen Focus
- Getting Things Done
- SCRUM
- Mind Management Not Time Management
- How To Measure AnyThing
- The Book Of Rest

- Why Indecision Tenses Your Muscles
#4 14 20/07/2026
15 21/07/2026
16 22/07/2026
17 23/07/2026
18 24/07/2026
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