Certified ScrumMaster

All CSM courses are taught by Certified Scrum Trainers. Taking a CSM course, passing the CSM test, and accepting the license agreement designates you as a Certified ScrumMaster, which indicates that you have been introduced to and understand the basic concepts you need to perform as a ScrumMaster or team member on a Scrum team. This course also satisfies two elements of the CSD track: Scrum Introduction and Elective.

Objectives

This hands-on, interactive class enables the course delegates to apply Scrum effectively:

• Assume the responsibilites of a ScrumMaster
• Remove the barriers between development and the customer so that the Product Owner directly drives development
• Improve employee satisfaction
• Improve the engineering practices and tools so each increment of functionality is potentially shippable

Additionally, upon successful completion of the course, each participant is enrolled as a Certified ScrumMaster, which includes a one-year Scrum Alliance membership, where additional ScrumMaster-only material and information is available.

Audience

Project managers, team leads, and IT/development managers interested in successfully introducing Scrum into their organizations, as well as, product managers, business analysts, architects and developers interested in applying Scrum.

Prerequisites

Before the course, students are required to read Agile Project Management with SCRUM by Ken Schwaber or Agile Software Development with SCRUM by Mike Beedle and Ken Schwaber.

Participants will also benefit from having watched Ken Schwaber talking about Scrum and from reading the messages posted at the Scrum Yahoo! discussion group prior to the course:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7230144396191025011
http://groups.yahoo.com/groups/scrumdevelopment

Contents

Introduction

• Agile Values
• Scrum Origins
• Scrum and Change
• Empirical Process Control
• Companies Using Scrum
• Compliance with CMM

Scrum Process and Roles

• Scrum Flow
• Scrum Roles
• ScrumMaster challenges including Team dynamics, ScrumMaster selection, Performance Appraisals
• The Role of Project Managers and Functional Managers in Scrum

Requirements Management

• The Product Backlog
• Overview of User Stories

Release Management

• Sustainable Pace
• Estimating and Planning
• Tracking

Working with Sprints

• Sprint Workflow and Characteristics
• Sprint Estimating and Planning
• Daily Scrum
• Sprint Review
• Sprint Retrospective
• Sprint Reporting

Getting Started in Scrum

• Just do it
• The Nature and Anatomy of Change
• Scrum Adoption Stages
• Bottom-up and Top-down Approaches
• Piece-Meal Growth

Large and Distributed Scrum Projects

• Master Product Backlog and the Product Owner team
• Organic Growth
• Team Set-Up
• Multi-team Planning and Coordination
• Shared Norms and Assets
• Distributed Scrum Project Tips

The Visual Workplace (Optional)

Development Practices (Optional)

• Agile Modellling
• Vertical Slices
• XP/Lean Development Practices